Fan Ye (historian)

Fan Ye (398–445 or 446[note 1]), courtesy name Weizong (蔚宗), was a Chinese historian and politician of the Liu Song dynasty during the Southern and Northern dynasties period. He was the compiler of the historical text Book of the Later Han. The son of Fan Tai (范泰), Fan Ye was born in present-day Shaoxing, Zhejiang, but his ancestral home was in Nanyang, Henan.

Fan Ye
Traditional Chinese范曄
Simplified Chinese范晔

Fan has a biography in the Book of Song.

Notes

  1. Hill gives his death date as 446. Fan said that in January 446, he was awaiting execution for plotting against Emperor Wen of Liu Song.[1]
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References

Citations

  1. Hill, John E. Through the Jade Gate, footnotes 28.1 and 29.1.

Sources

Further reading

  • Yap, Joseph P. (2019). The Western Regions, Xiongnu and Han, from the Shiji, Hanshu and Hou Hanshu. ISBN 978-1792829154.


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