Quote Pictures Sima Qian By thehistorianshut - December 9, 2019 Facebook Twitter ReddIt Pinterest Tumblr Email Sima Qian (c. 145-90 BCE) “Thus the shifts of success and failure are entwined like the strands of a rope.” Records of the Grand Historian (Shi Ji 113) by Sima Qian. Translated by Burton Watson (Columbia University Press, 1993). Like this:Like Loading...