Ban Bo, 73–79, 82, 90, 96, 98, 117, 143, 183, 230–232, 236–237

Ban Chang, 71, 183

Ban Chao, 24, 120, 126, 183, 212, 244

Ban clan, 5, 61, 63, 67, 71–74, 78–79, 81–83, 86–87, 89–90, 96, 117–118, 182–183, 227, 229–230, 232

Confucian orthodoxy, 66

family biography, 61–66, 91, 224–225

family principles, 116–118, 144

genealogy of, 67–71

origins of, 70, 228

privileged position of, 62, 74–75, 82–83, 142

rise to power, 172, 211

Ban Gupassim,passim. See also “Basic Annals of Emperor Gao,” “Biography of Dong Zhongshu,” “Communicating with the Hidden,” History of the Han, “Hymn on the Southern Tour,” “Response to a Guest’s Jest,” “Treatise on State Sacrifices,” and “Treatise on the Five Phases”, xiv–xix, 2–182, 183–185, 207–210, 212–262

as compared to Sima Qian, 25, 36–39

as historian, xvi, xviii, 4–5, 18, 39, 51, 62, 67, 75, 117–118, 125, 133, 156, 179

as individual, xviii–xix, 4, 18, 54

as Mengjian, 3–4, 119

commissioner over the army, 130

death of, 26–29, 50, 55, 125, 131, 180, 222

Ban Gu (continued )

imprisonment of, 33, 124–125, 131–133, 244, 246–247, 259

major of the black tortoise, 129, 245

mourning, 20–22, 51, 123, 129, 132–133

Ban Gu pingzhuan (Critical Biography of Ban Gu),, 4, 209

Ban Hui, 71, 183

Ban Jieyu, 73–74, 81, 86–90, 96, 98, 107, 117, 134, 143, 183, 233, 235–237

Ban Kuang, 65, 71–73, 78, 86, 183, 235, 258

Ban lantai ji. See Collected Works of the Historian of the Orchid Terrace Ban Gu

Ban Ru, 71, 90, 183

Ban Si, 83–84, 118, 183

Ban Yi, 70–71, 90, 183, 228–229

Ban You, 78–80, 82, 87, 96, 117, 183, 218, 230, 232

Ban Zhao, 33, 56, 183, 242

Fan Ye’s biography of, 26–27, 29, 50, 55, 122

Ban Zhi, 65, 73, 79–83, 88, 90, 96, 117–118, 183

banquets, remonstrations at, 75, 77, 87, 98, 104, 117

baobian. See “praise and blame”

barbarian. See Xiongnu

de Barry, William Theodore, 168

“Basic Annals of Emperor Gao,”, 158, 173

“Basic Annals of Emperor Guangwu,”, 122

“Basic Annals of Emperor Zhang,”, 129, 245

Beasley, W. G., xviii