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Sima qian, astronomer, calendar expert, and the first great chinese historian. You also can read online records of the grand historian qin. Sima qian s father sima tan served as grand historian, and sima qian succeeded to his position. Records of the grand historian qin dynasty book also available for read online, mobi, docx and mobile and kindle reading. Records of the grand historian, original and modern chinese. Records of the grand historian kindle edition by qian sima, burton. Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by project gutenberg. Download records of the grand historian qin dynasty in pdf and epub formats for free. This volume of the history of the han dynasty consists of chapters dealing principally with the reign of emperor wu. The records of the grand historian starts from the time of huang di, the mythical first ruler of all chinese, reputed to be 2000 years before when sima qian started writing.

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