The official Tuōtuō (“twoh-twoh”) resolved a dispute between three factions working in this discipline by sponsoring works from each camp. The merits of biānniántǐ (“byen-nyen-tee”) and jízhuāntí (“jee-ch’wen-tee”) are discussed in a work on this discipline by Liú Zhījī (“l’yoh chuh-jee”). An apocryphal story about his response to a horse trampling a dog illustrates the stylistic changes implemented in this discipline by Ōuyáng Xiū (“oh-yahng sh’yoh”). One author linked this discipline to (*) astrology by citing the importance of occasions “when the five planets gather.” A work in this discipline from the Hàn Dynasty was produced by three members of the Bān family. The first of a post hoc grouping of 24 texts in this discipline was based on wooden and bamboo documents and was called the Shǐjì (“shuh-jee”). For 10 points, a “grand” work in which discipline was written by Sīmǎ Qiān ■END■
ANSWER: history [accept lìshǐ, historiography, biography; prompt on politics or political science by asking “from what disciplinary perspective was it studied?”; prompt on epigraphy by asking “epigraphy was used as a tool to advance which discipline?”]
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