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	Sima Qian
		Chinese historian of the Han dynasty and author of the Shi ji [Records of the Grand Historian].
		Records of the grand historian of China (Burton Watson).
		Records of the Historian (Yang Hsien-yi and Gladys Yang).
	www.renditions.org /renditions/authors/simaq.html (226 words)

	Expert About hi:Historian
		The duties of a town historian are prescribed by law (and it is presumed that any historian is familiar with the requirements of the state law affecting his position), but much freedom is left to the historian as to precisely how and how far these prescribed conditions are carried out.
		Primarily, the responsibility of the town historian is to the town and the town's code of ethics.
		The Grand Historian was responsible both for establishing and maintaining the royal calendar (the method of numbering the years of the dynasty) and for composing a record of the principal events of the reign.
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	Records of the Grand Historian - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Unlike subsequent official historical texts that adopted Confucian doctrine, proclaimed the divine rights of the emperors, and degraded any failed claimant of the throne, Sīmǎ Qiān's more liberal and objective prose had been renowned and followed by poets and novelists.
		Most chapters of Lièzhuàn were vivid descriptions of events and persons, a reason for which is that the author critically used stories passed on from antiquity as part of the sources, balancing reliability and accuracy of the records.
		For instance, the material on Jīng Kē's attempt at assassinating Qin Shi Huang was an eye-witness story passed on by the great-grandfather of his father's friend, who served as a low-ranked bureaucrat at Qin court and happened to be attending the diplomatic ceremony for Jīng Kē.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Historical_Records (355 words)

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		His Shiji, or Records of the Grand Historian, documents the history of China and its neighboring countries from the ancient past to his own time.
		Sima Qian (C. 100 B.C.E.) was China's first historian - he was known as Grand Astrologer at the court of Emperor Wu during the Han dynasty - and, along with Confucius and the First Emperor of Qin, was one of the creators of imperial China.
		Sima Qian's vast Records of the Historian is the first comprehensive history of China and has exerted an immense influence both upon our understanding of the Chinese past and also upon the style and structure of subsequent Chinese historiography.
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		The Records of the Grand Historian (Traditional Chinese: 史記; Simplified Chinese: 史记; pinyin: Shǐjì) written from 109 BC to 91 BC, was the magnum opus of Sima Qian, in which he recounted Chinese history from the time of the mythical Yellow Emperor until his own time.
		ISBN 0-231-08168-5 (hbk); ISBN 0-231-08169-3 (pbk) Sima Qian (1993), Records of the Grand Historian of China.
		ISBN 0-231-08168-5 (hbk); ISBN 0-231-08167-7 (pbk) Ssu-ma Ch'ien (1961), Records of the grand historian of China: Han Dynasty I, Translated from the Shih chi of Ssu-ma Ch'ien by Burton Watson (Hong Kong: The Research Centre for Translation [The Chinese University of Hong Kong]; New York: Columbia University Press).
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	Wei Man (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		He was the first figure in the history of Korea who was recorded in documents of the same age.
		The Records of the Grand Historian simply calls him Man, so the surname Wei was probably named later.
		However, Lu Wan fled to the Xiongnu in 195 B.C. because he was suspected of rebellion and was attacked by the Emperor.
	www.theezine.net /w/wei-man.html (312 words)

	Treasures of Ancient China @ nationalgeographic.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		According to Records of the Grand Historian, a collection of texts written by Sima Qian of the Han imperial court about a hundred years after the death of Qin Shi Huang Di, “Replicas of palaces, scenic towers…as well as rare utensils and wonderful objects, were brought to fill up the tomb.
		Records of the Grand Historian: Qin Dynasty, trans.
		Records of the Grand Historian: Han Dynasty, trans.
	www7.nationalgeographic.com /ngm/data/2001/10/01/html/ft_20011001.3.html (957 words)

	Liu Bang:
		He was also created as the Prince of Han by Xiang Yu, the Grand Prince of Western Chu following the collapse of Qin Dynasty, and was called so before becoming emperor.
		By historians' account, Liu Bang was the contrary to his rival, Xiang Yu.
		While Xiang Yu was normally depicted as a romantic and noble man, Liu Bang was often mentioned as a rogue.
	wikipedia.openfun.org /wiki/Liu_Bang (2312 words)

	Introduction to "The Biographies of Boyi" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		His Shi ji (Records of the Grand Historian), in 130 chapters of varying length, begins with the Yellow Emperor (legend has it that he was the first ruler of China) and continues down to the author's own times, the Han dynasty (206 BC - 220 AD).
		The Grand Historian's duties included managing the palace archives, recording the deeds and words of the emperor, and making astrological observations.
		The Records of the Grand Historian are often seen as a reflection of the author's rage and frustration: denunciations of tyranny and sympathetic portrayals of the "losers" of history are frequent themes.
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	Book: Chinese Literature: Selections from Records fo the Historian-chinese literature, classical chinese literature, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Most Chinese consider the Records of the Historian to be among the greatest classics from traditional China.
		Born around 145 BCE., Sima Qian was educated in the classics, served his emperor on a variety of missions, and in 107 BCE succeeded his father as Grand Historian of the Han court.
		Upon his appointment as Grand Historian, he embarked on the initial project of collecting additional sources, especially from the imperial library, and verifying his facts.
	www.chinesecultureonline.com /d:BA:Culture-Classic-Literature/233.html (507 words)

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		Records of the Grand Historian, completed by Sima Qian in about 100 B.C.E., contains a seminal essay on early Chinese thought written by his father, Sima Tan, who began the compilation of this text.
		The Grand Historian [Sima Tan] studied astronomy with Tang Du, received instruction in the Classic of Changes from Yang He, and mastered Daoist discourse under Master Huang.
		The Grand Historian held office from the Jianyuan to the Yuanfeng periods (between 140 and 110 B.C.E.).
	socrates.berkeley.edu /~loyhc/ph153/Sima_Qian.html (1557 words)

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		Today's Honorary Subscriber is Classical China's greatest historian, Ssu-ma Ch'ien (c.145 BC -c.85 BC), whose monumental work, the Shih-chi ("Records of the Grand Historian"), is considered to be the most important history of China down to the end of the 2nd century.
		The office of grand historian combined responsibility for astronomical observations and for the regulation of the calendar with the duty of keeping a daily record of state events and court ceremonies.
		Shortly thereafter he undertook the unfulfilled ambition of his father to write a definitive history of the Chinese past from the enthronement of the legendary Yellow Emperor in 1297 BC down to the hectic reign of the current Han emperor, Wu Ti.
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	chinese historian,chinese ancient historian,chinese history
		He was the son of an official historian called Sima Tan.
		Sima Qian was appointed the Grand Historian of the court three
		Records of the Grand Historian, which he wrote, consists 0f
	www.silkroadcn.com /chinainfo/historian.htm (1156 words)

	the truth about china and its cover ups - Qin Shi Huang - BlogHoster
		This name Qin Shi Huang (i.e., "First Emperor of the Qin Dynasty") is the name that appears in the Records of the Grand Historian written by Sima Qian, and is the name most favored today inside China when referring to the First Emperor.
		He explained the ultimate weakness of Qin as a result of its ruler's ruthless pursuit of power, the precise factor which had made it so powerful; for as Confucius had taught, the strength of a government ultimately is based on the support of the people and virtuous conduct of the ruler.
		In the time when he was writing, when Chinese territory was encroached upon by foreign nations, leading Kuomintang historian Xiao Yishan emphasized the role of Qin Shi Huang in repulsing the northern barbarians, particularly in the construction of the Great Wall.
	www.blogstuff.co.uk /chinesedistractor/146 (4068 words)

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		Sima Qian, Records of the Grand Historian:Qin Dynasty (translated by Burton Watson, Columbia University Press), pp.
		Sima Qian, Records of the Grand Historian:Qin Dynasty pp.
		Sima Qian, Records of the Grand Historian: Han Dynasty, Vol.
	www.stjohnscollege.edu /asp/main.aspx?page=1412 (521 words)

	Ssu-ma Ch'ien. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		He succeeded his father, Ssu-ma T’an, as grand historian (an office then dealing with astronomy and the calendar) at the court of the Early Han emperor Wu.
		Rejecting the alternative of suicide, he chose to complete this work, the Shih chi [records of the historian].
		In 130 chapters, including basic annals of dynasties or rulers, chronological tables, treatises, hereditary houses, and accounts of famous men and foreign lands and peoples, it has served as a model for subsequent Chinese dynastic histories.
	www.bartleby.com /65/ss/SsumaChi.html (214 words)

	Han , Sui, Tang Dynasties
		The Han period produced China's most famous historian, Sima Qian (145 -87 BC?), whose Records of the Grand Historian provides a detailed chronicle from the time of legendary Xia emperor to that of the Emperor Wu (141- 87 BC).
		It was marked by the reunification of Southern and Northern China and the construction of the Grand Canal, though it was a relatively short Chinese dynasty.
		These resources were overstrained in the completion of the Grand Canal--a monumental engineering feat-- and in the undertaking of other construction projects, including the reconstruction of the Great Wall.
	www.crystalinks.com /chinadynasties2.html (2575 words)

	Titian
		In the same way Charles V, mounted on horseback in his armor, alone on the Battlefield of Muhlberg, presents us with a perfect image, eloquent in its frankness, as effective as any political manifesto of the concept of absolute monarchy predominant at that time at the Catholic court of the Hapsburgs.
		But for Titian the "things" to be understood and represented were not only the physical semblance or the psychological peculiarities of the sitter, or the various objects and props - clothes, jewels, armor which had their own role and meaning.
		"Modern historians cannot refer to the intrigues of Pope Paul III without citing the Capodimonte painting, or recall the horrors of religious wars without visualizing the tragic figure of Charles V, victorious at the Battle of Muhlberg.
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	Records of the Grand Historian
		Sima Qian was appointed grand historian of the Emperor Wu's court in 108 B.C. In his Records of the Grand Historian he describes the events which he witnessed or heard of that occurred during his lifetime, which offers the modern historian a fairly accurate account of a contemporary historian of the Han Dynasty.
		In addition, he also consulted a plethora of documents and files which were stored in the palace as well as having had the ability...
		This volume (along with his other volumes pertaining to the Han dynasty) displays the history of China through the eyes of one of its participants, the grand historian Sima Qian.
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	Mike's History p 49 - Shih chi. Records of the Historian. Shiki.
		The Shih chi, or the Records of the Grand Historian.
		But until the Han, when the Chinese for the first time acquired a sense of national and cultural unity, no attempt was ever made to produce a comprehensive history of the entire past of the nation.
		The Shih chi or Records of the Historian was begun by Ssu-ma T'an (d.
	www.galileolibrary.com /history/history_page_49.htm (496 words)

	Records of the Historian : PDXBooks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Records of the Historian : Chapters from the Shih Chi of Ssu-ma Ch'ien
		Records of the historian: The four lords of the warring states (Asiapac comic series)
		The lives of the fathers, martyrs, and other principal saints: Compiled from original monuments and other authentic records [and] illustrated with the...
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	A Sun Tzu Companion
		The historical work is Shi Chi (translated by Burton Watson as, Records of the Grand Historian).
		It was completed by Ssu-ma Ch'ien, the grand historian of Emperor Wu, sometime around 89 B.C, contemporaneous with Julius Caesar and the decline of the Roman republic in the West.
		One reason many of these battles are fascinating is that they are so complex - particularly those of General K'ung-ming, who is presented as virtually the Sherlock Holmes of generals, with an uncanny ability to determine the plans of his opponents and devise intricate plans to counter them.
	www.sacklunch.net /SunTzu/suntzu.php (530 words)

	史記 (Records of the grand historian of China) - Digital Archive of Toyo Bunko Rare Books
		史記 (Records of the grand historian of China) - Digital Archive of Toyo Bunko Rare Books
		Records of the grand historian of China Vol.
		Copyright (C) 2003-2007 National Institute of Informatics and The Toyo Bunko.
	dsr.nii.ac.jp /toyobunko/XI-3-A-b-124/index.html.en (284 words)

	The Samguk sagi Translation Project
		Its chief compiler was Kim Pu-sik 金富軾 (though he worked with a team of historians whose names have mostly been lost to us), an elder statesman at the court of the Koryŏ king Injong.
		The work was completed in 1145 and quickly superceded all earlier Korean histories, for better or worse, to take its place as the definitive work on the Three Kingdoms era of Korean history (ca.
		Shiji (Shih-chi) 史記 – rendered in English as the “Records of the Grand Historian”.
	www2.hawaii.edu /~dkane/Samguk.htm (273 words)

	Hum 230 Syllabus Fall 2003
		Ssu-ma Ch'ien [Sima Qian], "Shih Chi 130: The postface of the Grand Historian," Ssu-ma Ch'ien: Grand Historian of China, Burton Watson, trans.
		Sima Qian, "Shi ji 28: Treatise on the feng and shan sacrifices," Records of the grand historian.
		Ma Dibo, "Record of the feng and shan sacrifices," Religions of China in practice, Stephen Bokenkamp, trans.
	academic.reed.edu /chinese/chin-hum/current_fall.html (2011 words)

	Arizona History: Historic Facts and Overview
		You will be able to search for your ancestors and order copies of important historical records, such as birth, death and marriage documents.
		In search of Grand Quivira, Coronado and his men crossed what is now the Texas and Oklahoma panhandles, into Kansas.
		Secretary McCormick then suggested the name Prescott, after the historian who wrote History of the Conquest of Mexico and who had noted in that work the nearness of Arizona to Mexico.
	www.e-referencedesk.com /resources/state-history/arizona.html (8529 words)

	Xia, Shang, Yin, Zhou, Qin,
		The Records of the Grand Historian states that the Shang Dynasty moved its capital six times.
		In Western histories, the Zhou period is often described as feudal because the Zhou's early decentralized rule invites comparison with medieval rule in Europe.
		However, historians debate the meaning of the term feudal; the more appropriate term for the Zhou Dynasty's political arrangement would be from the Chinese language itself: the Fengjian system.
	www.crystalinks.com /chinadynasties.html (1267 words)

	Chinese Cultural Studies: Sima Qian Ssuma Ch'ien: Two Biographies, from The Records of the Grand Historian of China ...
		From: Ssuma Chi'en, Records of the Grand Historian of China, Vol II, trans Burton Watson, (New York: Columbia University Press, 1961),, repr.
		The Grand Historian was responsible both for establishing and maintaining the royal calendar (the method of numbering the years of the dynasty) and for composing a record of the principal events of the reign.
		His Records of the Grand Historian went far beyond the conventional listing of court appointments and events in the life of the imperial family.
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