Sima Qian

(noun)

A renowned Chinese historiographer of the 2nd century BCE who wrote about the Xia Dynasty.

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Examples of Sima Qian in the following topics:

  • The Xia Dynasty

    • The earliest comprehensive history of China is the Historical Records, written by Sima Qian, a renowned Chinese historiographer of the 2nd century BCE.

  • Philosophy and Art of the Han Dynasty

    • The Records of the Grand Historian by Sima Tan (d. 110 BCE) and his son Sima Qian (145–86 BCE) established the standard model for all of imperial China's Standard Histories, such as the Book of Han written by Ban Biao (3–54 CE), his son Ban Gu (32–92 CE), and his daughter Ban Zhao (45–116 CE).

  • Natural Cycles

    • In fact, the early theory of Sima Qian, a Chinese historiographer of the Han Dynasty and typically considered to be the father of Chinese historiography, the more recent theories of long-term ("secular") political-demographic cycles as well as the Varnic theory of P.R.

  • Painting under the Yuan Dynasty

    • There was also the vivid and detailed works of art by Qian Xuan (1235–1305), who had served the Song court and out of patriotism refused to serve the Mongols.
    • Instead, Qian Xuan turned to painting and became famous for his return to nature through landscape painting and his renewal of the "blue and green" style of the Tang Dynasty.

  • The Silk Road

    • Expansion by the Han took place around 114 BCE, led mainly by imperial envoy Zhang Qian.

  • The Northern Song Era

    • Wang Anshi's "New Policies Group" (Xin Fa), also known as the "Reformers", were opposed by the ministers in the "Conservative" faction led by the historian and Chancellor Sima Guang (1019–1086).

  • Architecture and Urban Planning under the Ming Dynasty

    • The main halls of the Outer and Inner courts, for example, are all arranged in groups of three in the shape of the Qian triagram, representing Heaven.

  • Putting Chaku-Chaku into practice

    • (Yu, Qian, Yun, Chen, Yanbin, Jiang, and Lijuan, Zhang, ‘A Clean Production Process of Sodium Chlorite from Sodium Chlorate', Journal of Cleaner Production) This discovery saved several companies in the chemical industry the time and expense of figuring it out on their own.

  • Additional suggestions for eliminating production waste

    • (Yu, Qian, Yun, Chen, Yanbin, Jiang, and Lijuan, Zhang, ‘A Clean Production Process of Sodium Chlorite from Sodium Chlorate', Journal of Cleaner Production) This discovery saved several companies in the chemical industry the time and expense of figuring it out on their own.