Records of the Grand Historian

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/Records_of_the_Grand_Historian
GPTKB entity
Statements (33)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:historical_documents
gptkbp:author gptkb:Sima_Qian
gptkbp:category gptkb:Han_dynasty_literature
Chinese literature
Chinese historiography
gptkbp:completedIn c. 94 BC
gptkbp:countryOfOrigin gptkb:China
gptkbp:coversPeriod from the Yellow Emperor to the Han dynasty
gptkbp:genre history
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Records of the Grand Historian
gptkbp:influenced gptkb:Book_of_Han
gptkb:Book_of_Jin
gptkb:Book_of_Later_Han
gptkb:Twenty-Four_Histories
gptkbp:language gptkb:Classical_Chinese
gptkbp:notableFor comprehensive scope
biographical style
gptkbp:numberOfVolumes 130
gptkbp:originalTitle gptkb:Shiji
gptkbp:publisher various (originally hand-copied manuscripts)
gptkbp:relatedWork gptkb:Book_of_Han
gptkb:Book_of_Later_Han
gptkb:Zizhi_Tongjian
gptkbp:significance foundational text of Chinese historiography
gptkbp:structure annals, chronological tables, treatises, hereditary houses, biographies
gptkbp:subject gptkb:Chinese_history
gptkbp:translatedInto gptkb:French
gptkb:German
gptkb:Korean
English
Japanese
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:ancient_China
gptkbp:bfsLayer 4