Talk:Book of Han

message: The word shū 書/书 in the name of this and other historical works should not be translated "book", even though that is what it means now. In early traditional times, it meant primarily "to write", "writings", or "history". It would be better to translate the name of the book as "The History of Han", and similarly the other histories bearing this character. And it is usual for sinologists to call this book simply The Hanshu or The Han shu. I'd actually prefer the latter approach, but would accept "history" as a compromise. But "book" is not historically correct usage. Charmii (talk) 03:16, 11 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The two comments here are completely correct, so I'm surprised and disappointed to see that, seven years later, the entry is still called "Book of Han."--74.103.157.38 (talk) 06:48, 18 October 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  mistranslation of the word <i>shū</i> &#x66f8;/&#x4e66; 

message: The first appearance of Japanese people in this book is not the part in the article;  "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. This is from the Book of the Later Han.
The first Japanese appear in the Lun heng (論衡 :zh:论衡) part in the Book of Han.
The part regarding Wa people (Japanese) is;
異虛第十八 ; 
The 周 (Zhou Dynasty) era is older than the article of Book of the Later Han. Please someone who can read Chinese check the document and revise the article. --Eurodollers (talk) 02:20, 3 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  description of Japan 

message: Many, many thanks to Guss at the Dutch Wikipedia who did all the hard work of translating and clarifying from the Chinese and also formatting, as I don't have a clue how to format. I found exactly what I was looking for on the Dutch page, and it really helped me with the Chinese version, so I decided to translate it into English. 
Evangeline (talk) 05:54, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Annals

message: The text portion of this article appears to be a copyvio of https://www.amazines.com/Book_of_Han_related.html - unless that article is a copyvio of this one.  —Mattisse (Talk) 18:02, 22 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copyvio?? 

message: The caption on the pic says it is a "wood carved edition."  "Wood-block" shurely?  "Wood-block print edition" perhaps.
 
DavidLJ (talk) 20:05, 10 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Wood carved"?? 

message: Substituted at 10:03, 29 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Assessment comment

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message: To add to infobox: the alternate name Book of Former Han (with spelling in Chinese characters). 173.88.246.138 (talk) 22:04, 20 April 2020 (UTC)
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message: Is either a translation or article on the Emperor Wu section?  While regulations would suggest I am allowed to quote directly from it as illustration, it would make more sense for the reader if I wasn't linking directly to the Chinese. This is for another article.FourLights (talk) 09:08, 13 February 2024 (UTC)
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