The Shiji (simplified Chinese: 史记; traditional Chinese: 史記; pinyin: Shǐjì; lit. 'Historical Records'), also known as Records of the Grand Historian or The Grand Scribe's Records (simplified Chinese: 太史公书; traditional Chinese: 太史公書…
Shiji 史記 is a very famous universal history of early China and the first of the official dynastic histories. It was written by the Former Han period historian Sima Tan 司馬談 (d. c.