Ban Biao (班彪) | 24 Histories

Overview

Ban Biao was a historian and Writer.

IdentityHistorical · Male

Roles

Found in

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Courtesy name	Shuipi	叔皮	Shupi

implied by son's orphanhood at capping age 子弱冠而孤
Strongly inferred · Book of Han 117, passage 158

AD 23 年二十，遭王莽敗
Directly stated · Book of Han 117, passage 92
AD 25 to AD 36 建武初
Dated from the passage context · Book of Later Han 34, passage 65
AD 25 to AD 30 時隗囂據壟擁眾…乃著王命論
Dated from the passage context · Book of Han 117, passages 93-94, 107
AD 3 to AD 54 東漢初
Directly stated · Book of Chen 19, passage 135
AD 25 to AD 54 班彪《王命論》
Strongly inferred · Book of Liang 35, passage 6
BC 7 to AD 5 穉生彪
Dated from the passage context · Book of Han 117, passages 79-80

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AD 25 to AD 54 避地河西至應三公召
Dated from the passage context · Book of Han 117, passages 151-154

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Child of Ban Zhi (班穉)
begat 生
Directly stated · Book of Han 117, passage 79
Kin of Ban Si (班嗣)
elder cousin 從兄 · paternal line
Directly stated · Book of Han 117, passage 80
Parent of Ban Gu (班固)
son 子
Directly stated · Book of Han 117, passage 158

Polity Eastern Han 漢 · Relation Served
Directly stated · Book of Han 117, passages 153-154
Polity Han 漢 · Relation Lived under
Directly stated · Book of Han 117, passages 92, 104
Polity Western Han 西漢 · Relation Served
Strongly inferred · Book of Han 117, passage 79
At Fufeng 扶風 · Relation Associated with
Directly stated · Book of Later Han 34, passage 65
At Hexi 河西 · Relation Fled to
Directly stated · Book of Han 117, passage 151

Subject classical learning 遊學 · With Person Id Ban Si (班嗣)
Directly stated · Book of Han 117, passage 80
Nominated
Credential Outstanding Talent 茂材
Directly stated · Book of Han 117, passage 153
Belief Way of the sages 聖人之道 · Relation Adherent of
Directly stated · Book of Han 117, passage 91

Discourse on the King's Mandate 王命論
Directly stated · Book of Han 117, passage 107
Discourse on the Mandate of Kingship 王命論
Directly stated · Book of Liang 35, passage 6
Discourse on the King's Mandate 王命論
Relation Author
Directly stated · Book of Han 117, passages 107-108
Discourse on the Mandate of Kingship 王命論
Relation Author
Directly stated · Book of Liang 35, passage 6
Discourse on the Mandate of Kingship 王命論
Essay · Author · Direct quotation · Extent Unit Ids s0006 · Mode quoted-speech Speaker Emperor Wu of Liang (梁高祖)
Directly stated · Book of Liang 35, passage 6
Narrative · Subject · Paraphrased · Silent Chinese subject of the Hexi flight through scholarly self-description
Directly stated · Book of Han 117, passages 151-158

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Speech · Author · With Wei Xiao (隗囂) · Direct quotation
Directly stated · Book of Han 117, passages 97-104
Treatise · Author · Direct quotation
Directly stated · Book of Han 117, passages 109-135

Answered summons
Appointment · Summoned official · Organization Three Dukes 三公
Directly stated · Book of Han 117, passage 154
Composed Wang Ming Lun to rescue the age
AD 25 to AD 30 乃著王命論以救時難 · Scholarly · Author
Directly stated · Book of Han 117, passage 107
Fled turmoil
Political · Refugee · With Wei Xiao (隗囂) · At Hexi 河西
Directly stated · Book of Han 117, passage 151
Lived through Wang Mang fall
AD 23 遭王莽敗 · Political · Witness · With Wang Mang (王莽)
Directly stated · Book of Han 117, passage 92
Questioned about Zhou Han mandate
Diplomatic · Advisee · With Wei Xiao (隗囂)
Directly stated · Book of Han 117, passages 94-96
Witnessed Liu Xiu accession in Ji
AD 25 世祖即位於冀州 · Political · Witness · With Emperor Guangwu of Han (漢光武帝) · At Ji Province 冀州
Directly stated · Book of Han 117, passage 92

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Relation Rejected service under · Person Wei Xiao (隗囂)
Directly stated · Book of Han 117, passage 151

Assessment fine virtue · Mode named-source-report Source Person Id Dou Rong (竇融)
Directly stated · Book of Han 117, passage 152
Assessment served not for salary; studied not for display; transmitted rather than invented · Mode historian-judgment
Directly stated · Book of Han 117, passages 155-157