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According to its website, Hanban's goals include "making Chinese language and culture teaching resources and services available to the world", "meeting the demands of overseas Chinese learners", and "contributing to the formation of a world of cultural diversity and harmony". [6]
The Book of Han is a history of China finished in 111 CE, covering the Western, or Former Han dynasty from the first emperor in 206 BCE to the fall of Wang Mang in 23 CE. [1] The work was composed by Ban Gu (32–92 CE), an Eastern Han court official, with the help of his sister Ban Zhao, continuing the work of their father, Ban Biao.
Ban Gu (AD 32–92) was a Chinese historian, poet, and politician best known for his part in compiling the Book of Han, the second of China's 24 dynastic histories.He also wrote a number of fu, a major literary form, part prose and part poetry, which is particularly associated with the Han era.
Ban Biao (Chinese: 班彪; pinyin: Bān Biāo; Wade–Giles: Pan 1 Piao 1, 3–54 CE), courtesy name (Chinese: 叔皮; pinyin: Shūpí; Wade–Giles: Shu 1-P'i 2), was a Chinese historian and politician born in what is now Xianyang, Shaanxi during the Han dynasty. He was the nephew of Consort Ban, a famous poet and concubine to Emperor Cheng.
Fan Ye, himself, clearly says that the new information contained in this section on the Western Regions, is largely based on information from the report of Ban Yong: "Ban Gu has recorded in detail the local conditions and customs of each kingdom in the former book [Book of Han or 'History of the Former Han Dynasty']. Now, the reports of the ...
A Western Han bronze wine warmer with cast and incised decoration, from Shanxi or Henan, 1st century BCE. The Twenty-Four Histories allege that when Xiang Yu arrived at Xianyang two months later in early 206 BCE, he looted it, burned it to the ground, and had Ziying executed. [14]
Ban Gu (32–92), historian and son of Ban Biao, main author of the Book of Han; Ban Chao (32–102), general, explorer, and diplomat, son of Ban Biao; Ban Zhao (45 – c. 116), the first female Chinese historian, daughter of Ban Biao; Ban Yong (died c. 128), Eastern Han general and governor of the Western Regions, son of Ban Chao
Emperor Gaozu of Han [a] (256 – 1 June 195 BC [5]), also known by his given name Liu Bang, was the founder and first emperor of the Han dynasty, reigning from 202 to 195 BC. He is considered by traditional Chinese historiography to be one of the greatest emperors in history, credited with establishing the first Pax Sinica , one of China's ...