Print  Font Size: 

Ban Biao

Ban Biao (班彪) (3-54), born in Xianyang, Shaanxi (陕西), was a Chinese historian, and an officer of the Han Dynasty. He began the Book of Han, which was completed by his son, Ban Gu (班固).

Ban Biao is also an eminent Chinese official of the Han dynasty (206 BC–AD 220) who is reported to have begun the famous Han shu (“Book of Han”), considered the Confucian historiographic model on which all later dynastic histories were patterned.

Ban Biao intended the work to supplement the Shih-chi (“Historical Records”) of the famous historian Ssu-ma Ch'ien (c. 145–85 BC)

To do a quick search, highlighting any word(s) then click Help!