Much of what we know of early Chinese history was the life’s work of Sima Qian. He accumulated and recorded as much early history as he could, and when he was ordered to stop and destroy tha
Much of what we know of early Chinese history was the life’s work of Sima Qian. He accumulated and recorded as much early history as he could, and when he was ordered to stop and destroy that history, he refused. His punishment was to be castrated. With that, he was allowed to continue to record […]