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史記 (Records of the Grand Historian) influenced 趙氏孤兒 (The Orphan of Zhao)
Added by Media Influence Map · 25 September 2026
The influence
史記 Records of the Grand Historian
Nonfiction · -90
The work it shaped
趙氏孤兒 The Orphan of Zhao
Play · 1300
The evidence
The story of the Zhao orphan, the massacre of the Zhao clan and the retainers who give their lives to save its last child, is told in Sima Qian's Records of the Grand Historian, in the account of the house of Zhao. Ji Junxiang's Yuan drama is built on it.
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