Overview
The translated histories identify Sima Biao as a historian and writer. This record brings together 5 passages from 3 chapters across 2 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.
Names
| Type | English | Chinese | Pinyin |
|---|---|---|---|
| Personal | Sima Biao | 司馬彪 | Sima Biao |
| Given | Biao | 彪 | Biao |
| Given | Biao | 彪 | Biāo |
| Surname | Sima | 司馬 | Sima |
| Surname | Sima | 司馬 | Sīmǎ |
| Personal name | Sima Biao | 司馬彪 | Sīmǎ Biāo |
Identity
- Historicity
- Historical
- Identification
- Named
- Sex
- Male
- Sex: maleStrongly inferred · houhanshu:001:s0005, nanqishu:017:s0222
- Sex: maleExplicit · houhanshu:131:s0002
Roles
- Historian
- Writer
Life and dates
Attested activity
- Source Date: Text: 北宋真宗時 · Western Interval: Start: AD 997 · End: AD 1022Explicit event contextual date · houhanshu:001:s0016
- Source Date: Text: 司馬彪志 · Western Interval: Start: AD 240 · End: AD 306Explicit · nanqishu:017:s0222
- Source Date: Text: 范曄、司馬彪等 · Western Interval: Start: AD 265 · End: AD 306Strongly inferred · houhanshu:131:s0002
- Source Date: Text: 西晉 · Western Interval: Start: AD 265 · End: AD 316
Career and standing
- Label: historian / 史家Strongly inferred · houhanshu:001:s0006, houhanshu:001:s0014
Places and affiliations
- Polity: Jin dynasty / 晉朝 · Relation: associated-withExplicit · houhanshu:001:s0016
- Polity: Western Jin / 西晉 · Relation: servedExplicit · houhanshu:001:s0004, houhanshu:001:s0005
Works and attributed material
- Work: Xu Han Shu (eight treatises in thirty volumes) / 續漢書（八志三十卷） · Relation: author
- Work: Book of Later Han treatise material / 後漢書 · Relation: authorExplicit · houhanshu:131:s0002
- Work: treatise / 志 · Relation: authorExplicit · nanqishu:017:s0222
- Work: Xu Han Shu / 續漢書 · Relation: author
- Kind: commentary · Role: authorExplicit · nanqishu:017:s0222
Events and relationships
- Kind: scholarly · Role: author · Action: eight-treatises-continued-and-later-incorporated-into-houhanshu
- Kind: scholarly · Role: author-of-supplement · Action: treatises-combined-with-fan-ye-houhanshu · Other Person Id: Fan Ye (范曄) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 北宋真宗時 · Western Interval: Start: AD 997 · End: AD 1022Explicit · houhanshu:001:s0016
Source notes
- Historicity: historicalExplicit · houhanshu:001:s0005, houhanshu:001:s0014
References in the histories
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