List of chapters in Records of the Grand Historian
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This is a list of chapters of the Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji), written by the Han dynasty historian Sima Qian.
In all, the Records is about 526,000 Chinese characters long, making it four times longer than Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War, and longer than the Old Testament.[1][2] Sima Qian organized the chapters of Records of the Grand Historian into five categories, each comprising a section of the book: Annals, Tables, Treatises, Hereditary Houses, and Ranked Biographies.