Fan Ye | |||||||||
Traditional Chinese | 范曄 | ||||||||
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Simplified Chinese | 范晔 | ||||||||
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Hanyu Pinyin | Fàn Yè |
Wade–Giles | Fan Yeh |
Fan Ye (398–445 or 446 ), courtesy name Weizong (蔚宗), was a 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.