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The 18 pages that link to Ban Gu, each with the reason it gives.

• Chinese historiographyRelated: His dynastic monograph helped establish the standard form for histories of individual regimes.

• Sima QianRelated: His dynastic history followed Sima Qian’s model while narrowing its chronological scope.

• Records of the Grand HistorianRelated: His more court-centered history continued the Shiji’s model while criticizing some of its judgments.

• XiongnuRelated: His history preserves a major account of Xiongnu-Han relations.

• ShijiRelated: His historical practice reveals both the Shiji’s influence and its contested judgments.

• Book of HanBroader topic: He developed the work and wrote much of its narrative before his death in custody.

• Twenty-Four HistoriesRelated: His dynastic history helped establish the form followed by later compilers.

• Fu (poetry)Related: His paired capital rhapsodies show fu adapting imperial description into political comparison.

• Ban ChaoRelated: Ban Chao’s elder brother was also a prominent Han court intellectual.

• Emperor Guangwu of HanRelated: His history preserved accounts of the Han political order Guangwu restored.

• Zhang HengRelated: His historical tradition provides a key context for accounts of Han officials and scholarship.

• Ban ZhaoRelated: Her brother’s unfinished historical project became one of her central scholarly responsibilities.

• Jia YiRelated: His historical project helped shape the later record through which Jia Yi is known.

• Emperor Xuan of HanRelated: His account preserves the principal narrative through which Xuan's reign is known.

• Modu ChanyuRelated: His account preserves Han perspectives on Xiongnu rulers and diplomacy.

• Sima XiangruRelated: His dynastic history transmitted accounts of Sima Xiangru and the Western Han court.

• Western HanRelated: His work became the dynasty’s principal historical record.

• Eastern HanRelated: His family’s historical work supplied a model for recording the Eastern Han era.