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Chinese historian, politician and poet (AD 32–92)

Also known as: Bān Gù, Gu Ban, Pan Ku, Бань Гу, 반고, 班固

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Author of the Records of the Grand Historian, the model for Ban Gu's annalistic-biographical history of the Han. (AI reason)
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Ban Zhao45–116
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Completed the Book of Han and wrote didactic prose and fu in the same Eastern Han classical style. (AI reason)
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Book of the Later Han continues the dynastic-history form with similar biographical treatises. (AI reason)
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Chen Shou233–297
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Records of the Three Kingdoms follows the standard dynastic-history structure Ban Gu established. (AI reason)
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His 'Rhapsody on the Two Capitals' answers Ban Gu's capital fu in grand epideictic style. (AI reason)
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Yang Xiong-52–18
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Western Han fu writer and Confucian thinker combining rhetorical poetry with classical scholarship. (AI reason)
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Yue Xun148–209
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Records of Han (Han Ji) condenses the Book of Han into chronicle form. (AI reason)
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Sima Guang1019–1086
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Zizhi Tongjian offers comprehensive moralizing historiography rooted in the Han historical tradition. (AI reason)
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Liu Xiang-76–-5
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Compiled anecdotal histories and bibliographies that Ban Gu drew on for his treatise on literature. (AI reason)
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