Wednesday, January 10, 2018

Sima Qian


Sima Qian (first major historian of China, c. 145-90 BCE)

"No one knows why order comes about - such is the ordering of a true sage."
  • From The Basic Annals of Qin in the Records of the Grand Historian (Shi ji) by Sima Qian, translated by Burton Watson. New York: Columbia University Press, 1993.

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