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The Letter to Ren An and Sima Qian
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Sima Qian (first century BCE), the author of Record of the Historian (Shiji), is China s earliest and best-known historian, and his Letter to Ren An is the most famous letter in Chinese history. In the letter, Sima Qian explains his decision to finish his life s work, the first comprehensive history of China, instead of honorably committing suicide following his castration for deceiving the emperor. In the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, some scholars have queried the authenticity o…