Sima Qian · Civilisations
The terrible choice at the heart of Sima Qian’s life - to suffer castration and disgrace rather than die, so that he might live to complete his history.
You learned that Sima Qian chose castration over death to complete the Shiji . Reconstruct the choice he faced and his reasoning about how to use a life and a death, in your own words.
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