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CONTENTS The huge encyclopedic work was started by Ban Biao . Following his death, Ban Gu , eldest son of Ban Biao, continued working on the book, which grew to a total of 100 volumes, and included essays on Law , Science , Geography , and Literature . His younger sister Ban Zhao , finished the writing in 111 , 19 years after he was put in prison, and made the minor volumes 13-20th (eight chronological charts) and 26th (astronomical biography) included to the work. Like the ''Records of the Grand Historian'', Zhang Qian , a famous Chinese general who travelled to the west, was the key source for the cultural and socio-economic data on the Western Regions contained in the work on 96th volume. The book set the format for the writings of later Chinese dynasties, and today it is a reference used to study the Han period. It is often regarded as part of the early four historiographies of the Twenty-Four Histories canon, together with the '' Records Of The Grand Historian '', '' Records Of Three Kingdoms '' and ''Book of Later Han''. Japan The Japanese first appear in written history in this book, in which it is recorded, "The people of Wa are located across the ocean from Lelang , are divided into more than one hundred tribes, and come to offer tribute from time to time." It is later recorded that in 57, the southern Wa kingdom of Na sent an emissary named Taifu to pay tribute to Emperor Guangwu and received a golden seal. According to the '' Book Of Wei '', the most powerful kingdom on the Archipelago in the 3rd Century was called Yamataikoku and was ruled by the legendary Queen Himiko . SEE ALSO NOTES REFERENCES
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