PAN PIAO

born AD 3, , Fu-feng, China died 54, China Pinyin Ban Biao eminent Chinese official of the Han dynasty (206 BCAD 220) who is reported to have begun the famous Han shu (Book of Han), considered the Confucian historiographic model on which all later dynastic histories were patterned. Pan Piao intended the work to supplement the Shih-chi (Historical Records) of the famous historian Ssu-ma Ch'ien (c. 14585 BC) and to cover the period from 104 BC, the last year covered by Ssu-ma. Pan died before the writing was completed, at which point it was taken over by his son Pan Ku. Pan Ku did not live to finish the work, ultimately completed by Pan Piao's daughter Pan Chao, China's most famous woman scholar.