. . . "-086Z"^^ . . . "Sima Qian"@en . . "0145Z"^^ . "Sima, Qian"@en . "Sima Qian (pronounced [s\u0268\u0301m\u00E0 t\u0255\u02B0j\u01FDn]; c. 145 or 135 \u2013 86 BC), formerly romanized Ssu-ma Chien, was a Chinese historian of the Han dynasty. He is considered the father of Chinese historiography for his work, the Records of the Grand Historian, a Jizhuanti-style (history presented in a series of biographies) general history of China, covering more than two thousand years from the Yellow Emperor to his time, during the reign of Emperor Wu of Han."@en . "Chinese historiographer" . . . .