Sima Qian rename

• Sima Qian

  

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  Date of birth:

  139 B.C.E.

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  Country of nationality:

  • China

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  • Writer,
  • Librarian

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  Date of death:

  86 B.C.E.

  Sima Qian (ca. 145 or 135 BC–86 BC) was a Prefect of the Grand Scribes (太史令) of the chinese Dynasty. He is regarded as the father of Chinese historiography because of his highly praised work, Records of the Grand Historian (史記), a "Jizhuanti" style...

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  Chinese literature extends back thousands of years, from the earliest recorded dynastic court archives to the mature fictional novel that arose during the Ming Dynasty to entertain the masses of literate Chinese. The introduction of widespread...

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