Please select the word from the list that best fits the definition Chinese scholar who wrote Historical Records

Sima Qian

Explanation:

Sima Qian was a chinese scholar, astronomer, and historian who is credited with most of China's written history in the Historical Records. Popular through his works in the early Han dynasty (206 BC – AD 220). He is widely known as the father of Chinese historiography for his Records of the Grand Historian, which entails general history of China in the Jizhuanti style encompasses of over two thousand years starting from the rise of the legendary Yellow Emperor and the formation of the first Chinese polity to the reigning sovereign of Sima Qian's time, Emperor Wu of Han.

Hence, Chinese scholar who wrote Historical Records is SIMA QIAN

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