Pan

kU Stt 0, chiefly famous for his great history of the Western Han Dynasty, brought to completion by his sister after his disgrace. He is also the author of a treatise, half historical and half philosophical, known from the place where it v;as written as the IMG:p434_5.png:Chinese characters itS M I'ui hu t'ung. He is one of the links in cosmogonical thought between the cla ical period and the Sung philosophers. In his ideas about the Five Elements he followed out the lines taken by Tsou Yen and Liu Hsiang [q.v.). He died in prison A.D. 92.