China: As History Is My Witness - Sima Qian: China's Great Historian

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Free speech has long had a high price in China. Here Sima Qian ponders his privates - and posterity - in a tale that still resonates after more than 2,000 years.

Published on Tuesday, 9th October 2012.

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