Sima qian biography template

          This dissertation examines the changing ways in which pre-modern Chinese readers understood authorship through an analysis of their perspectives on Sima Qian.

        1. This dissertation examines the changing ways in which pre-modern Chinese readers understood authorship through an analysis of their perspectives on Sima Qian.
        2. Sima Qian, the author of the first of these two historical works, was gifted with an extremely critical mind: through his dynastic history he vehemently.
        3. The template defaults to the punctuated version of the edition, the Neifu Kanben (內府刊本), located at 史記 at the Chinese Wikisource.
        4. Historical Records Qian Sima,Raymond Dawson, The Historical Records or Shiji is a vast history of the Chinese world from its beginnings up to the late.
        5. The appearance of the biographical form to Sima Qian's belief in the efforts of human beings in the development of history.

          6. The template defaults to the punctuated version of the edition, the Neifu Kanben (內府刊本), located at 史記 at the Chinese Wikisource..

          Sima Qian

          Chinese historian (c. 145–c. 86 BC)

          In this Chinese name, the family name is Sima (Ssu-ma).

          Sima Qian (Chinese: 司馬遷; ([sɹ̩́mà tɕʰjɛ́n]); c. 145 – c. 86 BC) was a Chinese historian during the early Han dynasty.

          He is considered the father of Chinese historiography for his Records of the Grand Historian, a general history of China covering more than two thousand years beginning from the rise of the legendary Yellow Emperor and the formation of the first Chinese polity to the reign of Emperor Wu of Han, during which Sima wrote.

          As the first universal history of the world as it was known to the ancient Chinese, the Records of the Grand Historian served as a model for official history-writing for subsequent Chinese dynasties and the Sinosphere in general until the 20th century.[1]

          Sima Qian's father, Sima Tan, first conceived of the ambitious project of writing a complete history of China, but had completed only