Shiji

Author: Sima Qian
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Publish Date: 2002-01-01
Features: Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji) consists of 130 chapters, compiled by Sima Qian of the Han Dynasty, and is the first comprehensive historical record in Chinese history written in the biographical style. The entire book contains over 526,000 characters, covering approximately 3,000 years of history from the legendary Yellow Emperor to the Taichu period of Emperor Wu of the Western Han Dynasty. The book is divided into [Annals] (12 chapters), [Tables] (10 chapters), [Treatises] (8 chapters), [Hereditary Houses] (30 chapters), and [Biographies] (70 chapters).