{"ModuleCode":"YHU4222","ModuleTitle":"The Historiography of Sima Qian","Department":"Yale-NUS College","ModuleDescription":"As author of the Shiji, China’s first dynastic history, Sima Qian counts as one of the world’s most influential figures in the history of historiography. In this course, we will closely examine his Shiji as a seminal act of historiographical creation, as we study its precursors and innovations, its conventions and literary devices, and its expressed and unexpressed motivations and the way in which such impulses contributed to Sima Qian’s acts of source selection and narrative construction and his critical evaluation of both his evidentiary sources and the historical figures themselves.","ModuleCredit":"5","Workload":"0-3-0-9.5-0","Types":["Module"],"Prerequisite":"Completed Year 2 and Common Curriculum (excluding Historical Immersion) as a prerequisite.","Timetable":[{"ClassNo":"1","LessonType":"Seminar-Style Module Class","WeekText":"Every Week","DayText":"Monday","StartTime":"1030","EndTime":"1200","Venue":"Y-RC2-CR13"},{"ClassNo":"1","LessonType":"Seminar-Style Module Class","WeekText":"Every Week","DayText":"Thursday","StartTime":"1030","EndTime":"1200","Venue":"Y-RC2-CR13"}],"LecturePeriods":["Monday Morning","Thursday Morning"]}