Sima Qian

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Sima Qian was an eminent Chinese historian of the Former Han dynasty, best known for authoring the foundational historical text "Records of the Grand Historian" (Shiji).

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instanceOf Chinese historian
biographer
court official
historian
birthDate c. 145 BCE
birthPlace Longmen NERFINISHED
near present-day Hancheng, Shaanxi
countryOfCitizenship Han dynasty NERFINISHED
deathDate c. 86 BCE
educatedAt Han imperial court NERFINISHED
employer court of the Former Han dynasty
era Former Han dynasty NERFINISHED
ethnicGroup Han Chinese
familyName Sima NERFINISHED
father Sima Tan NERFINISHED
gender male
genre biography
chronicle
historiography
givenName Qian NERFINISHED
hasPartInWork Shiji includes basic annals
Shiji includes chronological tables
Shiji includes hereditary houses
Shiji includes ranked biographies
Shiji includes treatises
influenced Ban Gu NERFINISHED
Sima Guang NERFINISHED
later East Asian historians
traditional Chinese historiography
influencedBy Confucius NERFINISHED
Spring and Autumn Annals NERFINISHED
Zuozhuan NERFINISHED
languageOfWorkOrName Classical Chinese
movement Han dynasty historiography
name Sima Qian NERFINISHED
nativeName 司馬遷 NERFINISHED
notableWork Records of the Grand Historian NERFINISHED
Shiji NERFINISHED
notedFor Records of the Grand Historian as a model for later dynastic histories
establishing biographical style in Chinese historiography
foundational synthesis of Chinese history up to the Han dynasty
occupation court astrologer
grand historian
historian
writer
positionHeld Grand Historian of the Han dynasty NERFINISHED
Taishi Gong NERFINISHED
subjectOf Chinese historical studies
workPeriod 1st century BCE
2nd century BCE

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