Book of Han
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The Book of Han, finished in 111 CE, is one of the Twenty-Four Histories and covers the Western, or Former Han dynasty from the first emperor in 206 BCE to the fall of Wang Mang in 23 CE. The work was
Ming Dynasty wood carving books in Tian Yi Chamber colllection
CMOC Treasures of Ancient China exhibit painted figure of a cavalryman, horse detail
Shiji
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The Shiji, also known as Records of the Grand Historian or The Grand Scribe's Records, is a Chinese historical text that is the first of the Twenty-Four Histories of imperial China. It was written dur
Book of Han
…an Eastern Han court official, with the help of his sister Ban Zhao, continuing the work of their father, Ban Biao. They modelled their work on the Records of the Grand Historian (c. 91 BCE), a cross-dynastic general history, but theirs was the first in this annals-biography form to cover a single dynasty. It is the best source…
1982 printed edition by the Zhonghua Book Company
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Chapter 2, Annals of Xia (Ming dynasty edition, 1598)
Pages from volume eleven of a Ming dynasty printed edition of the Shiji