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The Shiji is about 526,500 Chinese characters long, making it four times longer than Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War and longer than the Old Testament. [15] [16] Sima Qian conceived and composed his work in self-contained units, with a good deal of repetition between them.
The Shiji (Records of the Grand Historian), written by the Han dynasty historian Sima Qian, is about 526,000 Chinese characters long, ...
The Shiji comprises 130 chapters consisting of ... Sima provides a long dialogue between Zhonghang and an envoy sent by the Emperor Wen of China during which the ...
The word first came into common usage in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, [11] with the publication of such works as Santō Kyōden's picturebook Shiji no yukikai (1798), [12] [13] and Aikawa Minwa's Manga hyakujo (1814); this also includes the celebrated Hokusai Manga books (1814–1834) which contain assorted drawings from the ...
Sima Qian's Shiji (or Records of the Grand Historian, completed around 94 BC) was the first work to turn these fragments of myths into a systematic and consistent narrative of the Yellow Emperor's "career". [61] The Shiji ' s account was extremely influential in shaping how the Chinese viewed the origin of their history. [62]
The Spring and Autumn Annals and Sima Qian's later Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji) state that Sun Tzu was born in Qi. [10] Both sources also agree that Sun Tzu was born in the late Spring and Autumn period and that he was active as a general and strategist, serving King Helü of Wu in the sixth century BC, beginning around 512 BC.
Qi Jiguang was born in the town of Luqiao in Shandong province to a family with a long military tradition. His forefather served as a military leader under the Hongwu Emperor and died in battle. When Zhu Yuanzhang became the founding emperor of the Ming dynasty , he bestowed upon the Qi family the hereditary post of commander-in-chief of ...
Li Shiji's sworn brother Shan Xiongxin, whom Li Shimin considered treacherous because Shan had turned against Li Mi, was set to be executed as well. Li Shiji begged Li Shimin to spare Shan, arguing that Shan was a capable general who could be useful to Tang and offering to surrender all of his own honors to save Shan from death. Li Shimin refused.