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
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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
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early Han dynasty ⓘ pre-imperial China ⓘ |
| dateOfComposition | circa 1st century BCE ⓘ |
| dynastyContext | Han dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
annalistic history
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biographical history ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeEnglishTitle |
Historical Records
NERFINISHED
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Records of the Historian NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasKeyConcept |
Mandate of Heaven
NERFINISHED
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cyclical view of history ⓘ moral evaluation of rulers ⓘ |
| hasModernTranslations | multiple modern languages ⓘ |
| hasNotableFigureBiographies |
Confucius
NERFINISHED
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Emperor Qin Shi Huang NERFINISHED ⓘ Laozi NERFINISHED ⓘ Liu Bang NERFINISHED ⓘ Xiang Yu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influenced |
Book of Han
NERFINISHED
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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
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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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