Sources of Chinese tradition, Volume 1Archived 2013-10-08 at the वेबैक मशीन, William Theodore De Bary, Irene Bloom, Wing-tsit Chan, Joseph Adler, Richard John Lufrano, Columbia University Press, 2000, ISBN 978-0-231-10939-0, ... It was apparently Ban Biao's intention only to continue the writing of history from the point at which Sima Qian had stopped. But Ban Gu conceived the idea of one unified work covering the entire Former Han period ...
Sources of Chinese tradition, Volume 1Archived 2013-10-08 at the वेबैक मशीन, William Theodore De Bary, Irene Bloom, Wing-tsit Chan, Joseph Adler, Richard John Lufrano, Columbia University Press, 2000, ISBN 978-0-231-10939-0, ... It was apparently Ban Biao's intention only to continue the writing of history from the point at which Sima Qian had stopped. But Ban Gu conceived the idea of one unified work covering the entire Former Han period ...