Ban Gu
32
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92
photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
country of citizenship: Eastern Han
languages spoken, written or signed: Chinese
occupation: poet, writer, politician, historian
Ban Gu (AD 32–92) 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. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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