Ban Gu (Encyclopedia of the Ancient World)
Life
Ban Gu’s (BAHN-gew) father, historian Ban Biao, wrote a supplement to historian Sima Qian’s Shiji (first century b.c.e.; Records of the Grand Historian of China, 1960, rev. ed. 1993) and began work on a history of the Western Han Dynasty (206 b.c.e.-23 c.e.). When he was sixteen, Ban Gu went to the capital city of Luoyang to study at the Imperial College. At age twenty-three, after his father died, he returned to his hometown and became a historian, collecting the materials on which his father had been working.
Five years later, Ban Gu was...
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