Grand Scribe’s Records

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Grand Scribe’s Records is an ancient Chinese historical text by Sima Qian that chronicles Chinese history from legendary times through the Han dynasty and is considered a foundational work of Chinese historiography.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Chinese historiographical work
ancient Chinese book
historical text
author Sima Qian NERFINISHED
belongsToTradition Chinese classical historiography
chroniclesPeriodFrom legendary Yellow Emperor era
chroniclesPeriodTo Han dynasty NERFINISHED
citedBy later Confucian scholars
commissionedBy Han Wudi NERFINISHED
compiler Sima Qian NERFINISHED
considered foundational work of Chinese historiography
countryOfOrigin China
coversTopic Qin dynasty NERFINISHED
early Han dynasty
pre-imperial China
dateOfComposition circa 1st century BCE
dynastyContext Han dynasty NERFINISHED
genre annalistic history
biographical history
hasAlternativeEnglishTitle Historical Records NERFINISHED
Records of the Historian NERFINISHED
hasKeyConcept Mandate of Heaven NERFINISHED
cyclical view of history
moral evaluation of rulers
hasModernTranslations multiple modern languages
hasNotableFigureBiographies Confucius NERFINISHED
Emperor Qin Shi Huang NERFINISHED
Laozi NERFINISHED
Liu Bang NERFINISHED
Xiang Yu NERFINISHED
influenced Book of Han NERFINISHED
East Asian historiography
later Chinese dynastic histories
language Classical Chinese
literaryStyle prose
numberOfChapters 130
originalTitle 史記 NERFINISHED
partOfCorpus Chinese classics (broad sense) NERFINISHED
preservedIn traditional Chinese book format
structureComponent basic annals
biographies
chronological tables
hereditary houses
treatises
subjectMatter Chinese history
translatedTitle Records of the Grand Historian NERFINISHED
usedAsSourceFor research on early Chinese history

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Records of the Grand Historian alsoKnownAs Grand Scribe’s Records