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.