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Historical Thought in the Han Dynasty: Shaping the Past

Source of Inspiration -    • Сергей Дмитриев: Историческая мысль эпохи ...   - analyzes the crucial importance of the Han era as a founding moment in traditional Chinese identity and historiography. The author highlights the central role of Sima Qian, whose masterpiece, the Shiji, established a narrative and methodological model that has influenced history writing for over two millennia. The author examines the evolution of imperial thought, the transition of Confucian philosophy to state ideology, and the contribution of scholars such as Liu Xiang to the systematization of knowledge. The paper also delves into linguistic transformations, the birth of philology, and the development of the first dictionaries and bibliographic catalogs. Finally, the author describes the conception of the Han dynasty as the necessary culmination of a historical process destined to endure forever.