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Type: BOOK - Published: 1999-07-06 - Publisher: Columbia University Press

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Sima Qian (c. 100 B.C.E.) was China's first historian—he was known as Grand Astrologer at the court of Emperor Wu during the Han dynasty—and, along with Con
The First Emperor
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Poems of a Mountain Home
Language: en
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Categories: Education
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