To what extent is Sima Qian's excerpt from The Records of the Grand Historian, a reliable source of evidence about the reactions of the inhabitants of China during the Qin Dynasty to Shi Huangdi's actions as a ruler?

Sima Qian lived in 2nd and 1st century BCE. The Records of the Grand Historian starts from the time of Huang Di, the mythical first ruler of all Chinese, reputed to be 2000 years before when Sima Qian started writing. However, his work is meant to be a comprehensive history from the very beginning of the Chinese people to his days.

Now, what gets tricky is that Sima Qian came from a family of mandarins what we today could best understood as Court Archivist, in Chinese taishi (太史). The role of the Taishi is to record the event of the court. Before the First Emperor united China, each feudal lord

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