Sima Qian's Self-Conception in Claims of Legitimacy

Seminar paper from the year 2012 in the subject Orientalism / Sinology - Chinese / China, grade: 1,7, University of Heidelberg (Sinologisches Seminar), course: Beginnings of Chinese Historiography, language: English, abstract: What we know today of Sima Qian’s (145 –90 BCE) life and especially of the way he saw himself is drawn mainly from two sources of Chinese historiography – the Records of the...