Sima Qian was born around 145BCE during the Han dynasty. He was the son of the "grand historian" to the imperial Court. This job included responsibility for astronomical observations, the Court ...

Sima Qian, was a Chinese historian of the Western Han Dynasty (206BC-25AD). He is considered the father of Chinese historiography for his work, the Records of the Grand Historian.

"After the Han Dynasty was founded, the wrong policies of the Qin Dynasty ... The book Records of the Historian by Sima Qian was born in that period of cultural revival. The country had been unified ...

Image source, AFP Image caption, China's National Museum has a selective memory concerning Chairman Mao No suprises - Zhou was the last of the Shang dynasty. Sima Qian ... Wu Han, was a very ...

Emperor Wu of Han (156-87 BC), recorded by the Han Dynasty historian Sima Qian, established expansive vineyards and alfalfa fields near the palace to entertain envoys and nourish horses.

Geological evidence, pollen analysis and historical records were analysed to determine how the Han dynasty’s riverine ... battlegrounds documented in Sima Qian’s Records of the Grand Historian ...

When Sima Qian, prefect grand scribe astrologer of China’s early Han dynasty, gazed up at the constellation of Orion a little more than 2,000 years ago, he didn’t see the brilliant crimson ...

The work focuses on the exchanges between the Han people and the ancient nomadic Xiongnu tribe. Both sides of history Examining the history of the region during the Han Dynasty (206BC-AD220), the ...

The Emperor in Han Dynasty,[1] also released under the title ... as well as the diplomats Su Wu and Zhang Qian, also make appearances as supporting characters in the series.