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15 Quotes From the ‘Twenty-Four Histories’ of China

Twenty-Four Histories, which is also known as the Standard Histories (zhengshi 正史), is a collection of Chinese official historical books that covers more than 2,000 years to the Ming Dynasty in the 17th century. Sima Qian, who was a Han Dynasty official, established many of the conventions of the genre, but the form was not set until much later. It all started with the ...

Kathy McWilliams

The 'Ttwenty-Four Histories' in Chinese.'