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The Records of the Grand Historian is the first systematic Chinese historical text, the Records profoundly influenced Chinese historiography and prose. In its effect, the work is comparable to Herodotus and his Histories. Together with the Records of Three Kingdoms, Book of Han and Book of Later Han, the book is part of the early four historiographies of the Twenty-Four Histories canon.
The Book is divided into five parts: Benji (本紀, annals), 12 volumes, Biao (表, tables), 10 tables, Shu (書, treatises), 8 juan, Shijia (世家, genealogies), 30 juan, Liezhuan (列傳, exemplary lives, often called biographies), 70 juan.