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The 140 pages that link to Han dynasty, each with the reason it gives.

• Sima QianNarrower topic: The court and political upheavals of this dynasty shaped Sima Qian’s career.

• Emperor Wu of HanNarrower topic: Wu’s expansion was a defining phase in the dynasty’s westward reach.

• Three KingdomsNarrower topic: The Three Kingdoms emerged from the dynasty’s weakening central government and final collapse.

• Han–Xiongnu warsNarrower topic: Its frontier institutions and resources sustained repeated campaigns against the Xiongnu.

• Romance of the Three KingdomsNarrower topic: The novel begins amid the dynasty’s weakening authority and the struggle to preserve or replace it.

• Zhang QianNarrower topic: The imperial framework that funded, recorded and exploited his reconnaissance.

• Ban GuNarrower topic: Ban Gu’s historical and literary subjects center on the Han imperial world.

• Cao CaoNarrower topic: Cao Cao’s career is inseparable from the dynasty he served and helped bring to an end.

• Hexi CorridorNarrower topic: Han expansion established one of the corridor’s earliest enduring roles in imperial policy.

• Confucian classicsNarrower topic: Han rulers established Confucian texts and scholarship within imperial institutions.

• I ChingNarrower topic: Han scholars established the I Ching as a canonical text and developed its interpretive traditions.

• Liu BeiNarrower topic: Liu Bei claimed descent from the Han imperial house and framed his rule as its restoration.

• Yellow Turban RebellionNarrower topic: The rebellion unfolded within the dynasty whose political order it helped destabilize.

• Chinese cosmologyNarrower topic: Han scholars and state institutions systematized influential cosmological ideas.

• Eastern WuNarrower topic: The Han collapse created the political vacuum in which Eastern Wu emerged.

• Han FeiNarrower topic: Han rulers retained administrative techniques associated with Legalism while publicly elevating Confucianism.

• Spring and Autumn AnnalsNarrower topic: Han scholars elevated the Annals’ commentaries and political significance.

• YuefuNarrower topic: The Han court established the Music Bureau associated with collecting and producing early yuefu songs.

• YuezhiNarrower topic: Han court records preserve much of the surviving written account of the Yuezhi.

• Book of RitesNarrower topic: Han scholars shaped the text’s received form and canonical standing.

• Five ClassicsNarrower topic: Han scholars and courts established the classics as central objects of state learning.

• Shu HanNarrower topic: Shu Han invoked the Han name and claimed dynastic continuity after its fall.

• Emperor Gaozu of HanNarrower topic: Gaozu established the dynasty whose institutions and identity outlasted his reign.

• Regular scriptNarrower topic: Regular script developed from writing forms used in and after this period.

• Wang MangNarrower topic: Xin’s institutions and political legitimacy emerged from the Han order Wang Mang displaced.

• Xin dynastyNarrower topic: Xin’s brief interruption divides Han history into Western and Eastern periods.

• Huangdi NeijingNarrower topic: The classic’s formation and early transmission are commonly situated in the Han intellectual world.

• Sima YiNarrower topic: The Han court's decline created the political order in which Sima Yi rose.

• Sun QuanNarrower topic: The Han collapse created the political vacuum in which Sun Quan rose.

• Classic of Mountains and SeasNarrower topic: The text's received organization is associated with Han-era scholarship and transmission.

• Emperor Wen of HanNarrower topic: Wen’s policies became part of the political legacy associated with the early Han dynasty.

• Four Commanderies of HanNarrower topic: The dynasty conquered Gojoseon and organized its former lands into commanderies.

• HeqinNarrower topic: Han rulers institutionalized heqin as one instrument for managing frontier relations.

• MinyueNarrower topic: The dynasty that conquered Minyue and incorporated its territory into imperial rule.

• Protectorate of the Western RegionsNarrower topic: The Protectorate was an instrument of Han imperial administration and frontier policy.

• Qiang peopleNarrower topic: Han expansion and administration generated extensive records about Qiang populations.

• Wiman JoseonNarrower topic: Han power made the conquest of Wiman Joseon possible.

• Xiang YuNarrower topic: Its foundation was the political outcome of Xiang Yu’s defeat.

• Chinese compassNarrower topic: Texts from the Han period describe lodestone devices associated with direction and divination.

• Emperor Guangwu of HanNarrower topic: Guangwu restored this broader dynasty after the Xin interregnum.

• Empress LüNarrower topic: The dynasty’s early court was the arena in which Lü Zhi consolidated power.

• Huo QubingNarrower topic: Huo’s victories strengthened the Western Han state during its expansion.

• Zhang HengNarrower topic: Its institutions and intellectual traditions shaped Zhang Heng’s world.

• Ban ZhaoNarrower topic: Ban Zhao lived and worked during the Eastern Han period.

• Four Books and Five ClassicsNarrower topic: Han rulers established Confucian learning as a major basis of imperial scholarship.

• Luo GuanzhongNarrower topic: The novel’s opening crisis unfolds as the Han dynasty loses authority.

• Rebellion of the Seven StatesNarrower topic: The revolt tested how much authority its central government could exercise over regional rulers.

• Sima XiangruNarrower topic: The Western Han court supplied the political and literary setting for his career.

• Zhang ZhongjingNarrower topic: Its institutions and intellectual culture shaped the world in which he practiced.

• History of paperNarrower topic: Paper’s early development belongs to the administrative and material culture of Han China.