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    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...
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    Min Chinese (redirect from Bân )
    Chinese: 闽语; traditional Chinese: 閩語; pinyin: Mǐnyǔ; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Bân- / Bân-gír / Bân-gí / Mân-ú; BUC: Mìng-ngṳ̄) is a broad group of Sinitic languages...
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    Xianyang, Shaanxi. Three of his family members—father Ban Biao, elder brother Ban Gu, younger sister Ban Zhao—were well known historians who wrote the historical...
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    Epidaurus, one of the first known female historians. She completed her brother Ban Gu's work on the history of the Western Han, the Book of Han. She also wrote...
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    Southern Min (redirect from Bân-lâm-)
    Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Bân-lâm-gí/; lit. 'Southern Min language'), Minnan (Mandarin pronunciation: [mìn.nǎn]) or Banlam (Min Nan Chinese pronunciation: [bàn.lǎm])...
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    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. They...
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  • (公主死,漢復以楚王戊之孫解憂為公主,妻岑陬。) Ban Gu et al. Book of Han, Volume 96, Traditions of the Western Regions. (岑陬胡婦子泥靡尚小,岑陬且死,以國與季父大祿子翁歸靡), Ban Gu et al. Book of Han,...
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    down. No illustration of the statues has remained. In the 1st century CE, Ban Gu (32–92 CE) in his moralistic Treatise on the Five Elements of the Hanshu...
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    Han poetry (section Ban Gu)
    poetry. Ban Gu was a 1st-century Chinese historian and poet best known for his part in compiling the historical compendium the Book of Han. Ban Gu also wrote...
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  • historian, Ban Gu, who compiled the Book of Han, the dynastic history of the Former Han dynasty. Ban Biao (班彪; 3-54 CE; grandfather) Ban Gu (班固; 32–92;...
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