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Communication Dans Un Congrès Année : 2012

Ban Biao’s Essay on the Kingly Mandate (Wangming lun) and the idea of a dynastic history

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According to the "Summary" (lüelun 略論) of the Houzhuan 後傳 by Ban Biao 班彪 (zi Shupi, 3-54), his first aim was "to continue the Book of the Grand Annalist" 續太史公書, as other scholars did before him, Chu Shaosun 褚少孫, Liu Xiang 劉向, Liu Xin 劉歆 or Yang Xiong 揚雄 being the most famous among them. How did it come that this continuation of the Shiji became the first dynastic history, which was completed by his son, Ban Gu 班固 (zi Mengjian, 32-92), and his daughter, Ban Zhao 班昭 (zi Huiji, c. 48-c. 120) and would have a deep influence on later historiography? This question implies two different kinds of problem. First, a familial problem, the transmission of an historiographical task from Ban Biao, who lived the turmoil following the end of the Xin dynasty to his son Ban Gu, who lived during the first reigns of Later Han Dynasty, having sometimes very near relationship with the Emperor; second a theoretical one: It is generally taken for granted that the political vision developed in Ban Biao's Essay on the Kingly Mandate was determinant for the "invention" of dynastic history, and that there is a continuity, a straight line, between this essay and the composition of the Hanshu . Here I would like to further examine this possible continuity.
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hal-02503160 , version 1 (09-03-2020)

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Béatrice L'Haridon. Ban Biao’s Essay on the Kingly Mandate (Wangming lun) and the idea of a dynastic history. Ban Gu and his Han shu, Hans van Ess, LMU, Jul 2012, Münich, Germany. ⟨hal-02503160⟩
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