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  Sima Qian - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In 96 BC, Sima Qian was released from prison.
Sima Qian even affected the writing style of histories in other places, as seen in The History of Korea, which was written as a general history.
Sima Qian was also good at illustrating the response of the character by placing him in a sharp confrontation and letting his words and deeds speak for him.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sima_Qian   (1690 words)

  
 Laozi
It is clear that by 100 B.C.E. if not earlier Laozi was already shrouded in legends, and that Sima Qian could only exercise his judgment as an historian to put together a report that made sense to him, based on the different and sometimes competing sources at his disposal.
Focusing on rhyme patterns, Liu Xiaogan (1994 and 1997) concludes that the poetic structure of the Laozi is closer to that of the Shijing (Classic of Poetry) than that of the later Chuci (“Songs of the South”; David Hawkes, trans.
For example, while there is some concern that technology may bring a false sense of progress, the antidote does not lie in a deliberate rejection of technology but rather in a life of natural simplicity and contentment that stems from having few desires (ch.
plato.stanford.edu /entries/laozi   (13348 words)

  
 Yang Xiong [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
As a youth he probably was a student of Zhuang Zun, a reclusive marketplace fortune teller who refused to take office, opting instead to use divination and fortune-telling as a means to encourage virtue among the common people.
Yang Xiong’s reputation as a poet eventually reached the capital of Chang’an, and around 20 BCE he was summoned to the court of Emperor Cheng.
As Knechtges points out, most of the well known early writers of rhapsodies, such as Lu Jia (228-140 BCE) and Jia Yi (200-168 BCE), were not only poets but also scholar-officials who saw it as their duty to offer advice and remonstrance (jian) to rulers and did so through their poetic works.
www.iep.utm.edu /y/yangxion.htm   (4927 words)

  
 The Epoch Times | Epoch Times Commentaries on the Communist Party — Part 6
Thus, said Sima Qian, the emperors of the past used rituals and music to constrain people.
The pattern of Sima Qian’s historiographic work was unique and served as model for the official standard histories of the imperial dynasties for the next 2000 years.
[17] The Romance of the Eastern Zhou, a novel originally written by Yu Shaoyu in the Ming Dynasty, revised and rewritten by Feng Menglong at end of the Ming Dynasty, and was further revised by Cai Yuanfang in the Qing Dynasty.
english.epochtimes.com /news/4-12-20/25087.html   (12494 words)

  
 Search Tuna Report for shang dynasty   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Bronze was found in royal tombs as well as the skeletons of about three hundred servants who were to accompany the king to the heavenly world....
Chinese historiographers take 841 BC as the first year of consecutive annual dating of the history of China, based on the Records of the Grand Historian by Sima Qian....
Xia Yu, the founder of the Xia dynasty, was selected as the heir to the throne because he was able to control the Great Flood that had afflicted the Chinese for several years....
www.searchtuna.com /ftlive2/3726.html   (2528 words)

  
 Brooklyn College Core 9: Chinese Culture Page
Sima Qian: Extracts from Records of the Grand Historian, two biographies.
WWW Extra: Sunzi: The Art of War [Other versions: The Art of War.
Opposition to Buddhism: Han Yu: Memorial on Buddhism (819 CE)
acc4.its.brooklyn.cuny.edu /~phalsall   (2720 words)

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