Sima Qian - Biography of the Capitalists

Chinese Literature Podcast - A podcast by Rob and Lee Moore - Saturdays

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Today, we take a look at Sima Qian's Biography of the Capitalists, chapter 129 in the Records of the Historian. This chapter is Sima Qian's two-millennia old defense of free market capitalism. The chapter is one of the most interesting his oeuvre because Sima Qian was condemned for it by later historians.