Ban Gu's history of early China / by Anthony E. Clark.
Includes bibliographical references and index.

Inscribing the past: a history of Chinese history -- The perennial dangers of direct criticism -- Praise, blame, and the modes of judgment -- Inscribing the text: a history of the history of the Han -- "True editions" and Qing skepticism -- Structure and sources of the history of the Han -- Accretions and additions -- From Han to PRC: filiations of transmission -- Inscribing the family: a history of the Ban clan -- Ban Gu, Sima Qian, and rewriting the past -- Inscribing genealogy -- Ban Bo and the family's rise to a consort clan -- Narrating though the dangers of court -- Historicizing advantage: highlighting privilege, loyalty, and influence -- Inscribing the self: ban gu's positioning of text and self -- Eclipse of the imperial family: Wang Mang and the Liu eviction -- Constructing Wang Mang: duplicity, omenology, and despotism -- Inheriting family principles in the wake of political collapse -- Ban Gu: filial son and favored historian -- A new heaven, a new mandate -- Inscribing the state: killing snakes, chasing deer, and reconceiving -- Heaven's mandate -- Heaven and its mandate: earlier assumptions and later innovations -- Killing snakes: legitimizing the Han's mandate -- Chasing deer: a predetermined and permanent mandate -- Zan : a final appraisal.

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Hanshu, History of the former Han dynasty, generally attributed to Ban Gu, was begun by his father, Ban Biao, and completed by his sister, Ban Zhao. Cf. Giles, H. A. Chinese biographical dictionary,, 1898.

V. 1. First division : The imperial annals, chapter 1-5 -- v. 2. First division : The imperial annals, chapters 6-10 -- v. 3. Imperial annals 11 and 12 and the memoir of Wang Mang.

Princes of jade / [by] Edmund Capon & William MacQuitty.
Bibliography: p. 188.

Contents: Prince of Han; China before the Han; from Confucius to Laozi; Court of the Son of Heaven; everyday life in Han China; Han imperialism: China and the West; art and culture: the age of Realism; legacy of Han; chronological lists.
Note: Color plates detail Han eternal fidelity lamp from Princess Dou Wan tomb; bronze artifacts, animals, wrestlers, jade burial suit of Prince Liu Sheng, Zhou dynasty pendants, tomb rubbing from Chengdu, Sichuan; relief molded bricks, silk spinning loom, weapons, spears, chariots; items from Fenshuiling, Shanxi, Shandong, Ordos, Wangdu, Hebei; Xiongnu art; flying horse from Leidai, Wuwei, Gansu, Eastern Han; Mawangdui.

V. 1. Early years of the Han dynasty, 209 to 141 B.C -- v. 2. The age of Emperor Wu, 140 to circa 100 B.C.

Volume I. Early years of the Han Dynasty, 209 to 141 B.C. -- The founding of the Han Dynasty (Parts I-VI) -- Part I. The beginning of the revolt -- Shih chi 48. The hereditary house of Ch'en She -- Part II. The vanquished -- Shih chi 7. The basic annals of Hsiang Yü -- Part III. The victor -- Shih chi 8. The basic annals of Emperor Kao-tsu -- Shih chi 16. Reflections on the rise of Emperor Kao-tsu (excerpt) -- Part IV. The great ministers -- Shih chi 53. The hereditary house of Prime Minister Hsiao -- Shih chi 55. The hereditary house of the Marquis of Liu (Chang Liang) -- Shih chi 56. The hereditary house of Prime Minister Ch'en -- Part V. The disaffected -- Shih chi 89. The biographies of Chang Erh and Ch'en Yü -- Shih chi 90. The biographies of Wei Pao and P'eng Yüeh -- Shih chi 91. The biography of Ch'ing Pu -- Shih chi 92. The biography of the Marquis of Huai-yin (Han Hsin) -- Shih chi 93. The biographies of Hann Hsin and Lu Wan -- Shih chi 94. The biography of T'ien Tan -- Part VI. The loyal followers -- Shih chi 95. The biographies of Fan K'uai, Li Shang, Lord T'eng, and Kuan Ying: concluding remarks --Shih chi 96. The biography of Chancellor Chang -- Shih chi 97. The biographies of Li I-chi and Lu Chia -- Shih chi 98. The biographies of Fu K'uan, Chin Hsi, and the Marquis of K'uai-ch'eng: concluding remarks -- Shih chi 99. The biographies of Liu Ching and Shu-sun T'ung -- Shih chi 100. The biographies of Chi Pu and Lüan Pu -- The second era of Han history (Parts VII-XI) -- Part VII. The rulers -- Shih chi 9. The basic annals of Empress Lü -- Shih chi 10. The basic annals of Emperor Wen the Filial -- Shih chi 11. The basic annals of Emperor Ching the Filial -- Shih chi 12. The basic annals of Emperor Wu (fragment) -- Part VIII. The empresses -- Shih chi 49. The hereditary houses of the families related to the emperors by marriage -- Part IX. The great families -- Shih chi 50. The hereditary house of King Yüan of Ch'u -- Shih chi 51. The hereditary houses of Ching and Yen -- Shih chi 52. The hereditary house of King Tao-hui of Ch'i -- Shih chi 54. The hereditary house of Prime Minister Ts'ao (excerpt) -- Shih chi 57. The hereditary house of Chou P'o, the Marquis of Chiang -- Shih chi 58. The hereditary house of King Hsiao of Liang -- Shih chi 59. The hereditary houses of the five families -- Part X. The leader of the revolt -- Shih chi 106. The biography of Liu P'i, the King of Wu -- Shih chi 17, 18, 19. Some remarks on Han Peers -- Part XI. The eminent officials -- Shih chi 84. The biographies of Ch'ü Yüan and Master Chia -- Shih chi 101. The biographies of Yüan Ang and Ch'ao Ts'o -- Shih chi 102. The biographies of Ching Shih-chih and Feng T'ang -- Shih chi 103. The biographies of Lord Wan-shih and Chang Shu -- Shih chi 104. The biography of T'ien Shu.

Volume II. The age of Emperor Wu, 140 to circa 100 B.C. -- Part I. Heaven, earth, and man -- Shih chi 28. The treatise on the Feng and Shan sacrifices -- Shih chi 29. The treatise on the Yellow River and canals -- Shih chi 30. The treatise on the balanced standard -- Part II. Statesmen, generals, and foreign peoples -- Shih chi 107. The biographies of the Marquises of Wei-ch'i and Wu-an -- Shih chi 108. The biography of Han Ch'ang-ju -- Shih chi 109. The biography of General Li Kuang -- Shih chi 110. The account of the Hsiung-nu -- Shih chi 111. The biographies of General Wei Ch'ing and the swift cavalry general Ho Ch'ü-ping -- Shih chi 20. The chronological table of Marquises Enfeoffed from the Chien-yüan era on: introduction -- Shih chi 112. The biographies of the Marquis of P'ing-chin and Chu-fu Yen -- Shih chi 113. The account of southern Yüeh -- Shih chi 114. The account of eastern Yüeh -- Shih chi 115. The account of Ch'ao-hsien -- Shih chi 123. The account of Ta-yüan -- Shih chi 116. The account of the southwestern Barbarians -- Shih chi 117. The biography of Ssu-ma Hsiang-ju -- Shih chi 120. The biographies of Chi An and Cheng Tang-shih -- Part III. The plotters of revolt -- Shih chi 118. The biographies of the kings of Huai-nan and Heng-shan -- Part IV. The collective biographies -- Shih chi 121. The biographies of the Confucian scholars -- Shih chi 119. The biographies of the reasonable officials -- Shih chi 122. The biographies of the harsh officials -- Shih chi 124. The biographies of the wandering knights -- Shih chi 125. The biographies of the emperors' male favorites -- Shih chi 127. The biographies of the diviners of lucky days -- Shih chi 129. The biographies of the money-makers.

Contents: I. Caesar, Augustus, Tiberius -- II. Gaius, Claudius, Nero -- III. Vespasian, Domitian, Trajan -- Conclusion -- Abbreviations -- Bibliography -- Index

"The evidence assembled in the pages following has reference only to the period from 58 B.C. to A.D. 107"--Pref., p. vii.

The Chinese sky during the Han : constellating stars and society /  by Sun Xiaochun and Jacob Kistemaker.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-216) and indexes.

"This is a reconstruction of the Chinese sky of two thousand years ago, based on analysis of the first star catalogue in China and other sources. Presented in six well-sized star maps for 100 BC, it is especially important for the history of astronomy. The Han sky, with five times more constellations than Ptolemy knew, reflects diverse human activities. The way in which constellations were grouped discloses a systematic cosmology, uniting universe and the state. The work of the three Han schools is comparable to Ptolemy's Almagest. With three detailed Appendices on the constellations of the three schools, well illustrated to demonstrate the relation between sky and human society, this book is valuable not only for astronomy historians and sinologists, but in general for scholars interested in the ancient cultures of Asia."--Jacket.

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