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The history of the former Han dynasty
Ban, Gu (32-92)
THE HISTORY OF THE FORMER HAN DYNASTY
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
VI.
CHAPTER VI
VII.
CHAPTER VII
VIII.
CHAPTER VIII
IX.
CHAPTER IX
INTRODUCTION
Who wrote this chapter and the next?
The textual loss
The probable source of a significant imperial conversation
Summary of the reign
Foreign affairs
Ch'en T'ang's extraordinary expedition into Sogdiana and the treatment of him by the government
The complete victory of Confucianism
Visitations and calamities
Governmental reforms and economies
Enactment of fundamental features in the imperial ancestral cult
The "Ordinances for the Months"
A second civil service test added
Imperial adoption of the Confucian principle that one's relatives should be favored
Eunuch control of the government; Confucian attacks upon and eventual victory over the eunuchs
IX.
[Chapter] IX THE NINTH [IMPERIAL ANNALS]
APPENDIX I
APPENDIX II
APPENDIX III
X.
CHAPTER X
ADDENDA ET CORRIGENDA TO VOLUME ONE
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The history of the former Han dynasty
THE HISTORY OF
THE FORMER HAN DYNASTY
BY
PAN KU
Translation, Volume Two
FIRST DIVISION
The Imperial Annals
Chapters VI–X
A Critical Translation with Annotations by HOMER H. DUBS With the Collaboration of P'AN LO-CHI and JEN T'AI
BALTIMORE
WAVERLY PRESS, INC.
© 1944
The history of the former Han dynasty