*[[Records of the Grand Historian]]*, also known by its Chinese name [[Records of the Grand Historian|Shiji]], is a monumental history of [[China]] that is the first of [[China]]'s 24 dynastic histories. The [[Records of the Grand Historian|Shiji]] was written in the late [[-0099-01-01 - 0099-12-31|2nd century BC to 1st century BC]] by the ancient Chinese historian [[Sima, Qian|Sima Qian]], whose father [[Sima, Tan|Sima Tan]] had begun it several decades earlier.