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Sima Qian (ca. 145 or 135 BC - 86 BC) (Wade-Giles: Ssu-ma Ch'ien) was a Prefect of the Grand Scribes (太史公 taishigong) of the Han Dynasty. He is regarded as the father of Chinese Historiography for his highly praised work, Records of the grand historian (史記 or 史记), a "Jizhuanti"-style general history of China, covering more than two thousand years from the Yellow Emperor to Emperor Wu of Han (漢武帝 or 汉武帝). His definitive work laid the foundation for later Chinese Historiography.

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