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  An Lushan Rebellion - Encyclopedia.com
Rebellion beginning in 755 in China led by An Lushan (703–757), a general of non-Chinese origin.
An Lushan rose through the ranks of the Tang-dynasty army in the 740s, becoming a military governor and a favourite of the emperor, Xuanzong.
An Lushan was fat, illiterate and would shortly go on to lead a rebellion that would see the end of the Tang dynasty and the death of Yang Guifei.
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  An Lushan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
An Lushan (Simplified Chinese: 安禄山; Pinyin: ān lùshān) (703 - 757) was a military leader of Sogdian origin during the Tang Dynasty in China.
An Roshan was part of a large population of expatriated Sogdians living in trade colonies in China.
He instigated the An Lushan Rebellion in 755 which marked the disintegration of the Tang's authority.
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 An Lushan Rebellion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The An Shi Rebellion (Chinese: 安史之亂; pinyin: Ān Shǐ Zhī Lùan) occurred in China, during the Tang Dynasty, from 756 to 763.
The alternative term An Lushan Rebellion neglected the participation of Shi Siming, a subordinate of An Lushan and later leader of the rebellion after murdering An Lushan's son An Qingxu.
The rebellion was suppressed during the reign of Daizong by generals Guo Ziyi and Li Guangbi (李光弼).
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 An Lushan Rebellion - Famous Ancient Chinese People - Chinese
The Anshi Rebellion (zh-cpc=安史之亂p=an1 shi3 zhi1 luan4) occurred in China, during the Tang Dynasty, from 756 to 763.
The alternative term An Lushan Rebellion neglected the participation of Shi Siming, a subordinate of An Lushan and later leader of the rebellion after murdering An Lushan's son An Qingxu.
The rebellion was suppressed during the reign of Emperor Daizong of Tang ChinaDaizong by generals Guo Ziyi and Li Guangbi (李光弼).
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 Emperor Xuanzong
An Lushan and his soldiers were successful in their efforts, but there is more to the story which is typically overlooked.
The story of the An Lushan Rebellion is a sad one for Emperor Xuanzong in which he loses both his power as emperor and the woman he loves.
An Lushan was a Turkish general who gained respect from everyone, including the Emperor, with his strong command abilities.
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 Chinese History - Tang Dynasty event history (www.chinaknowledge.org)
An Lushan - who had proclaimed himself emperor of the Yan Dynasty 燕 - had lost large territories in the east because many magistrates and military units of the local administration did not submit to him.
Shi Siming killed An Qingxu, proclaimed himself emperor in 759 and continued the rebellion that is known to Chinese historians as the rebellion of An Lushan and Shi Siming (An Shi zhi luan 安史之亂).
The rebellion of An Lushan was a turning-point in the history of the Tang Dynasty.
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 Changing Times   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
An Lushan's rebellion in northeastern China in 755 led to significant changes in China's government and society.
The provinces An Lushan had controlled in the Huabei Pingyuan (North China Plain), the most heavily populated and richest part of the Tang empire, were devastated.
Although rebellion and invasion accelerated the decline of the aristocracy, there was also a growing awareness that lineage had become less valuable than talent.
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 An Lushan Rebellion --  Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - Your gateway to all Britannica has to offer!
Rebellion beginning in 755 in China led by An Lushan (703–757), a general of non-Chinese origin.
An Lushan rose through the ranks of the Tang-dynasty army in the 740s, becoming a military governor and a favourite of the emperor, Xuanzong.
An uprising in western Pennsylvania that challenged federal taxation in the states was the Whiskey Rebellion of 1794.
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 [No title]
His life, like the whole country, was devastated by the An Lushan Rebellion of 755, and the last 15 years of his life were a time of almost constant unrest.
The An Lushan Rebellion began in December 755, and was not completely crushed for almost eight years.
In 762 he left the city to escape a rebellion, but he returned in the summer of 764 and was appointed military advisor to Yen, who was involved in campaigns against the Tibetans.
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 Li Po - Wikipedia
He was influenced as a child by Confucian and Taoist as a child, but ultimately his family heritage did not provide him with much opportunity in the aristrocratic Tang dynasty.
Though he expressed the wish to become an official, he did not sit for the Chinese civil service examination.
He fled south and was involved in the An Lushan rebellion against the Tang dynasty.
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 Silk Road Seattle - Xi'an/Chang'an   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The revival came to an end in civil strife, and for over a century after a conquering army took the city in 417, it ceased to be the capital.
It suffered major damage during the An Lushan rebellion in the mid-8th century, but even toward the end of the Tang period, when the empire was in disarray, the "enormous size" of the city impressed an Arab visitor.
An excellent overview of the early history of Islam in China is in Jonathan N. Lipman, Familiar Strangers: A History of Muslims in Northwest China (Seattle; London: Univ. of Washington Pr., 1997), Ch.2.
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 Kinas dynastier-sammanställning
As an aid to navigation the compass facilitated the Portuguese- and Spanish-sponsored voyages that led to Atlantic Europe's sole possession of the Western Hemisphere, as well as the Portuguese circumnavigation of Africa, which opened up the first all-sea route from Western Europe to the long-established ports of East Africa and Asia.
It is an account of Polo's travels over the long and perilous land route to China, his experience as a trusted official of Kublai Khan, and his description of China under the Mongols.
After the rebellion of An Lu-shan, the central government was never again able to control the military commanderies on the frontiers.
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 An Lushan Rebellion   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The Anshi Rebellion (安史之亂 pinyin : an1 shi3 zhi1 luan4) occurred in China during the Tang Dynasty from 756 to 763.
The alternative term An Lushan Rebellion neglected the participation of Shi Siming subordinate of An Lushan and later leader the rebellion after murdering An Lushan's son Qingxu.
Although successful suppressing the rebellion the Tang Dynasty was weakened by it and in its remaining was troubled by persistent warlordism.
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 tang Dynasty   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The first is the Empress Wu, the only woman ever to actually bear the title 'Emperor' (or, in her case, Empress).The second was the An Lushan Rebellion, which marked the beginning of the end for the Tang.
The An Lushan Rebellion had its roots in the behavior of one of the great emperors of Chinese history, Xuanzong.
An Lushan eventually decided that he would make a pretty good emperor, and launched his rebellion.
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 EZGeography - Military history of China
Although legalism as political theory was discredited after the fall of the Qin Dynasty, it left the structure of an autocratic, centralised empire that remained the master institution of Chinese military history.
When the dynasty was confronted by the Yellow Turban Rebellion, the fastest way to mobilise large armies was to recruit among the dependent clients of already powerful notables; a breakdown to warlordism followed quickly.
During the An Lushan rebellion, the Tang court had no central army to resist and could only appeal to other frontier commanders.
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 Chinese History, Regent Tour China
But perhaps an even greater consideration for the Tang rulers, aware that imperial dependence on powerful aristocratic families and warlords would have destabilizing consequences, was to create a body of career officials having no autonomous territorial or functional power base.
The second was the An Lushan Rebellion, which marked the beginning of the end for the Tang.
The An Lushan Rebellion had its roots in the behavior of one of the great emperors of Chinese history, Xuanzong.
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 Session 5   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The Tang Frontier Military and the An Lushan Rebellion
At the time of the rebellion An Lushan controlled three contiguous regions in the northeast, which gave him the potential to challenge the court.
Edwin G. Pulleyblank, "The An Lu-shan Rebellion and the Origins of Chronic Militarism in Late T’ang China," in Essays on T’ang Society: The Interplay of Social, Political, and Economic Forces, ed.
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 Bambooweb: Du Fu
For modern, western readers, therefore, "The less accurately we know the time, the place and the circumstances in the background, the more liable we are to imagine it incorrectly, and the result will be that we either misunderstand the poem or fail to understand it altogether" (p.
Luoyang, the region of his birthplace, was recovered by government forces in the winter of 762, and in the spring of 765 Du Fu and his family sailed down the Yangtze, apparently with the intention of making their way back there.
Du Fu's popularity grew to such an extent that it is as hard to quantify his influence as that of Shakespeare in England: it was hard for any Chinese poet not to be influenced by him.
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 9. Commemorative tea stove - Lu Yu; The Tea Saint & Cha Jing - A2Tea.com
Hu was an ancient ethnic minorities from north western Tang China in which General An Lushan was the warlord of these Hu people.
The imperial army demanded both of them to be executed for their cover-up and concealing the Emperor's weaknesses which resulted in loss of control of the imperial court that eventually led to the An Lushan Rebellion.
The name Anshi Rebellion came from An Lushan's "partner in crime" his deputy Shi Siming, who later became leader of the rebellion after executing An Lushan's son An Qingxu in a series of internal coup within the rebel.
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 China History Forum, online chinese history forum > Battle of Talas   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Whether this is an alliance or the Arabs are simply captured by the Tubo in war and used as Auxiliars is not known.
This brought on the rebellion of An Lushan which brought the Chinese borders back to the Great Wall and caused a gradual decline of Imperial power that lasted for 150 years.
An unfortunate event was that a group of papermakers in a caravan were captured.
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 CHINA AND INNER ASIA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The Tang Frontier Military and the An Lushan Rebellion, Jonathan K. Skaff
From an "Imperial Model" to a New "Assimilationist Model" of Colonization in Xinjiang: New Patterns and Mediums of Xinjiang’s Integration by the Centre, Nicholas Becquelin
Chinese Drama Studies: Historical Contexts and the Construction of an Academic Field
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 An_Lushan_Rebellion   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The '''Anshi Rebellion''' ({{zh-cpc=安史之亂p=an1 shi3 zhi1 luan4}}) occurred in China, during the Tang Dynasty, from 756 to 763.
The death toll of the rebellion according to various [http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/warstat0.htm#AnLushan sources], including suppression and famine, is estimated to be about 36 million.
[http://www.cgan.com/english/china-art/www/history/tang.html Tang (618 - 907)] " The An Lushan Rebellion had its roots in the behavior of one of the great emperors of Chinese history, Xuanzong.
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 Music of Kazakhstan . Kyrgyzstan . Kazakhstan . Turkmenistan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The Anshi Rebellion occurred in China, during the Tang Dynasty, from 756 to 763.
It is also known as the Tianbao Rebellion 天寶之亂, because An Lushan started it in the 14th year of the namesake era name era.
As of 2003, the district has an estimated population of 20,580 and a population density density of 80.13 persons per square kilometer km².
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 The Historical Interaction between the Buddhist and Islamic Cultures before the Mongol Empire - Chapter 7
He became an associate of Abu l’Abbas, an Arab descendent of Abbas, an uncle of the Prophet, while both were imprisoned in Bactria (Khorasan) for anti-Umayyad activities.
In 755, An Lushan (An Lu-shan), the son of a Sogdian soldier in Tang service and an Eastern Turk mother, led a popular revolt in the Tang capital, Chang’an.
Although An Lushan was half Sogdian, apparently the rebels were mostly Han Chinese and not from among the non-Han community.
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 Watersheds in Chinese history - Chinese-forums.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
As all of us know, the love triangle, the rebellion, the retreat to Chengdu, and the subsequent fall of an empire have been much dramatized/romanticized in Chinese and East Asian literary works.
an lushan's in love with yang guifei, they had an affair(the emperor actually knew it.
the main reason for an lushan's rebellion was probably yang guifei.
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 Korea to 1875 by Sanderson Beck
In 109 BC Han emperor Wudi sent an army of 60,000 with a navy of 7,000 to invade the peninsula.
An Yu was the first to adopt the Neo-Confucian philosophy that spread quickly among Koryo literati.
Songjong was a conscientious Confucian and ruled Korea in an era of peace except for a brief war near the end of his reign on the northern frontier.
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 The Historical Interaction between the Buddhist and Islamic Cultures before the Mongol Empire - Chapter 11
The assassination occurred in the same year as the An Lushan rebellion and, as before, the ministers probably feared that the Emperor’s leanings toward Buddhism and Tang China would bring disaster to Tibet.
Reminiscent of the attack against Han Chinese Buddhism perpetrated by An Lushan, the xenophobic ministers instigated a suppression of Buddhism in Tibet that lasted six years.
After the An Lushan rebellion was put down and imperial rule restored, the subsequent Tang emperors not only lifted the restrictions imposed on Buddhism by Emperor Xuanzong, but also patronized the religion.
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 China Window :: Tang Dynasty
But perhaps an even greater consideration for the Tang rulers, aware that imperial dependence on powerful aristocratic families and warlords would have destabilizing consequences, was to create a body of career officials having no autonomous territorial or functional power base.
Misrule, court intrigues, economic exploitation, and popular rebellions weakened the empire, making it possible for northern invaders to terminate the dynasty in 907.
The first is the Empress Wu, the only woman ever to actually bear the title 'Emperor' (or, in her case, Empress).
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 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The Tang Frontier Military and the An Lushan Rebellion
At the time of the rebellion An Lushan controlled three contiguous regions in the northeast, which gave him the potential to challenge the court.
During the Tang higher ranking officers were restricted to four years of duty in one place, but An Lushan had control over two of his commands for more than a decade, allowing him to create a personal satrapy.
www.ship.edu /~jkskaf/Scholarship/Tangfrontiermilabst.html   (262 words)

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