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Ban Gu

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#21,037
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Chinese historian, politician and poet

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Ban Gu
History
#664
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Ban Gu
Literature
#2008
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According to Wikipedia, Ban Gu was a Chinese historian, poet, and politician best known for his part in compiling the Book of Han, the second of China's 24 dynastic histories. He also wrote a number of fu, a major literary form, part prose and part poetry, which is particularly associated with the Han era. A number of Ban's fu were collected by Xiao Tong in the Wen Xuan.

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