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Sima Qian was a Chinese historian during the early Han dynasty. He is considered the father of Chinese historiography for the Shiji, a general history of China covering more than two thousand years from the rise of the legendary Yellow Emperor and formation of the first Chinese polity to the reign of Emperor Wu of Han, during which Sima wrote. As the first universal history of the world as it was…
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science · Chinese historian (c. 145 – c. 86 BCE) · historian · poet · writer · astrologer · philosopher · mathematician · astronomer · also Sima Qian, Father of History, Sima Chin, Ssu-ma Chien, Zichang, Sze-ma Ts'ien
Born 145 BC · Died 86 BC · Q9372
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“A man has only one death. That death may be as weighty as Mount Tai or it may be as light as a goose feather. It all depends on the way he uses it.”
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