Han Yushan, xviii

Hanji. See Han Records

Hanshu. See History of the Han

Hanshu daodu (Guide to Reading the History of the Han),, 3

Hardy, Grant, xviii

harem, imperial, 45, 63, 65, 71–73, 88, 134–135, 247

He, Emperor, 26, 55, 130–131

Heaven (tian),passim,See also Mandate of Heaven, 7–8, 113–115, 141–155, 158–182, 248–252, 258

and fate, 89, 140, 146, 154, 172, 177–178, 249

anthropomorphized, 249

as deity, 141, 145, 147, 151, 251

censure by, 7–8, 113, 153–154

Heaven’s Mandate. See Mandate of Heaven

Hebei, 226, 229, 232, 233

Heidegger, Martin, 60

Henan, 216, 236, 254

heping era,, 75

high antiquity (shanggu),, xiv

decay of (shuai),, xiv

historians, task ofSee also court, historians; Orchid-Terrace, Historian of, xiv–xvi, 25, 64, 66, 117, 181

historical record(s), xiv–xv, 2, 5–7, 19, 47, 51–52, 66–67, 77, 134, 140

Historiographical Dictionary of Chinese History,, 122

historiography, [Chinese], xv, xviii–xix, 2–3, 249

History of the Former Han (Qian Hanshu),, 35–36

History of the Han (Hanshu),passim,passim,See also postface, xv–xix, 2–182, 186–197, 207–261

accretions of, 17, 34–35, 49, 52, 55–56, 59–60

ancient edition of, 28–33

as dynastic history, 37–38, 180

list of chapter titles, 186–197

commentaries of, 17, 28, 32, 35, 45, 56, 59–60, 129, 224, 238

compared to Records of the Grand Historian,, xvii, 19–20, 36–42, 63–65, 159–160, 168, 179–180

development of, 19, 49, 52–56

drafts of, 20, 25–28, 33, 44, 47–52, 55

number of chapters inpassim,, 21–22, 34–53, 213, 218

Qing editors, 20, 29–34, 47

revisions of, 26–28, 34, 50, 54–58

structure of, 30, 34–38, 63, 67, 81, 83, 86, 93–97, 111, 142–143, 180, 213, 225

versions of, 26–27, 32, 44, 48–49, 56–60, 219

History of the Later Han (Hou Hanshu),, 3, 24, 26–27, 29, 36, 42, 45, 50, 66–67, 84–85, 120–123, 127–129, 131–132, 210, 217, 222, 241–242, 244, 256, 260

History of the Sui (Suishu),, 28, 31, 47–48, 179, 216–217

Homer, xix

homosexuality. See cutting the sleeve

Hou Feng, 127

Hou Hanshu. See History of the Later Han