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Sima Qian

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Sima Qian

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Also known as Father of History, Sima Chin, Ssu-ma Chien, Zichang, Sze-ma Ts'ien, Ssu-ma Ch'ien, Sze-ma Tsien, Se-ma-tsien

2nd-century BCE Chinese historian and writer

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Sima Qian was a historical figure born in 145 BCE and died in 86 BCE. His courtesy name was 子長. He is the author of works including 史記, 史记故事百篇, and 史记菁華錄. Other listed works are 窦婴田蚡 and 歷史的長城.

He is referenced by 1,021 other encyclopedia articles. His name appears in kana as しば せん. A quote attributed to him states, "There is no fixed road to wealth, and money has no permanent master." Another quote reads, "余嘗西至空峒，北過涿鹿，東漸於海，南浮江淮矣，至長老皆各往往稱黃帝、堯、舜之處，風教固殊焉，總之不離古文者近是。"

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Person · Open Library

Born
ca. 145 B.C.
Died
ca. 86 B.C.
Works
225

Top works

  • 窦婴田蚡
  • 歷史的長城, 史記
  • 史记故事百篇
  • 史记菁華錄
  • Shi ji

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Music · MusicBrainz

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
4
Total plays
4

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC

    · 2012 · cited 6,795x

  2. Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC

    · 2012 · cited 6,659x

  3. Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and adults

    · 2017 · cited 5,580x

  4. Luminescent Functional Metal–Organic Frameworks

    · 2011 · cited 5,561x

  5. Accurate prediction of protein structures and interactions using a three-track neural network

    · 2021 · cited 5,500x

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Quotes

  • “余嘗西至空峒，北過涿鹿，東漸於海，南浮江淮矣，至長老皆各往往稱黃帝、堯、舜之處，風教固殊焉，總之不離古文者近是。”
  • “吳王曰：「將軍罷休就舍，寡人不願下觀。」孫子曰：「王徒好其言，不能用其實。」於是闔廬知孫子能用兵，卒以為將。西破彊楚，入郢，北威齊晉，顯名諸侯，孫子與有力焉。”
  • “There is no fixed road to wealth, and money has no permanent master.”

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Encyclopedic overview

Courtesy name Traditional Chinese子長 Simplified Chinese子长

Sima Qian (c. 145 BC – c. 86 BC) was a Chinese historian during the early Han dynasty. He is considered the father of Chinese historiography for the Shiji (sometimes translated into English as Records of the Grand Historian), 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 known to the ancient Chinese, the Shiji served as a model for official histories for subsequent dynasties across the Sinosphere until the 20th century.

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