Essentials of the Later Han History

Author: Fan Ye
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Publish Date: 2001-05-01
Features: This book is part of Shanghai Education Publishing House's "Series of Ancient Classics," selecting twenty-five biographies from the Book of the Later Han Dynasty. These include emperors, ministers, party members, eunuchs, generals, nobles, as well as scholars, hermits, and women, basically reflecting the spiritual of various social strata in the Eastern Han Dynasty. In terms of literary style, the selected biographies include annals, classified biographies, individual biographies, and combined biographies, which give a general idea of the distinctive features of different types of articles in the Book of the Later Han Dynasty.