Library of Chinese Classics: Chronicles of the Han Dynasty

ISBN 10: 7119094084 ISBN 13: 9787119094083
Publisher: Foreign Languages Press, 2015

Pub Date: 2015-04-01
Pages: 757
Language: Chinese. English
Publisher: Foreign Languages Press

History of Han is China's first biographical dynastic history, which records and narrates the 230 years of history from 206 BC to AD 23. The whole book includes 12 records, 8 memorials, 10 annals and 70 biographies, totaling about 800,000 characters. Its author Ban Gu (32-92 AD) was a famous historian and litterateur in Chinese Eastern Han Dynasty (25-220 AD). Selections from History of Han selects 23 famous pieces from History of Han and is published in Chinese-English edition.