First History Book
China’s oldest comprehensive written history dates from about 90 BC. Known as the Shi Ji (“Historical Records”), it was compiled by Sima Qian, a court astrologer and Grand Scribe, whose father may have begun the work. The Shi Ji represents the history of man according to Chinese records from about 1500 to 90 BC. The 130-chapter book became the model of a series of 26 standard histories which continued in unbroken succession down to 1912, when Xuang-tong, the last Manchu emperor, abdicated.
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China’s oldest comprehensive written history dates from about 90 BC. Known as the Shi Ji (“Historical Records”), it was compiled by Sima Qian, a court astrologer and Grand Scribe, whose father may have begun the work. The Shi Ji represents the history of man according to Chinese records from about 1500 to 90 BC. The 130-chapter book became the model of a series of 26 standard histories which continued in unbroken succession down to 1912, when Xuang-tong, the last Manchu emperor, abdicated.