Civilisations
145 to 86 BC, Han China
The grand historian and the shaping of Chinese memory.
Start learning Sima →Can one book hold three thousand years - and become how a civilisation remembers?
Why a historian chose castration over death - and what a death should weigh.
How do you record the past faithfully when every record requires judgment?
If Heaven rewards the good, why did the virtuous starve while robbers prospered?
Why history’s heart is human lives - assassins and merchants alongside emperors.
epoché — a humanities education that remembers you.