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 An Shi Rebellion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The An Shi Rebellion (Chinese: 安史之亂; pinyin: Ān Shǐ Zhī Luàn) occurred in China, during the Tang Dynasty, from 756 to 763.
The rebellion was suppressed during the reign of Daizong by generals Pugu Huaien (僕固懷恩), Guo Ziyi and Li Guangbi (李光弼).
The death toll of the rebellion according to various sources, including suppression and famine, is estimated to be about 36 million.
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 An Lushan Rebellion -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
It is also known as the Tianbao Rebellion (天寶之亂), because (Click link for more info and facts about An Lushan) An Lushan started it in the 14th year of the namesake (A major division of geological time; an era is usually divided into two or more periods) era.
Although successful at suppressing the rebellion, the Tang Dynasty was badly weakened by it and in its remaining years was troubled by persistent (Click link for more info and facts about warlordism) warlordism.
The death toll of the rebellion according to various, including suppression and famine, is estimated to be about 36 million.
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 Summary and Evaluation of China, Korea & Japan to 1875 by Sanderson Beck
Banditry and rebellion eventually brought the end of the Tang dynasty in 907 and a period of regional governments.
The rebellion led by Saigo in Satsuma with 22,000 samurai was crushed by 65,000 troops and marked the final demise of Japanese feudalism in 1877.
Rebellions began breaking out in 1851, and the Taiping revolution, inspired by a peculiar form of Christianity, ruled a portion of China from Nanjing between 1853 and 1864 during a devastating civil war in which more than twenty million people died.
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 Hmong   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
All intimidations and unfair tributes led to the outbreak of Nanzhao rebellion during the Tianbao era (742-756) of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang China.
Although the rebellion was eventually squashed, the dynasty wasted precious resources which could have been used securing the northern border, ushering in the much more disastrous Anshi Rebellion.
Nanzhao, under the influence of Tang for a century (8th century to 9th century), was gradually adopting the Chinese culture and at the same time disintegrated as struggles of power among various rival clans.
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 Encyclopedia: Timeline of Chinese history
The Yellow Turban Rebellion, sometimes also translated as the Yellow Scarves Rebellion, (Simplified Chinese: 黄巾之乱; Traditional Chinese: 黃巾之亂; pinyin:) was a 184 AD peasant rebellion against Emperor Lingdi of the Han Dynasty of China.
The Anshi Rebellion (安史之亂 pinyin: an1 shi3 zhi1 luan4) occurred in China, during the Tang Dynasty, from 756 to 763.
Jump to: navigation, search The Taiping Rebellion (1851–1864) was one of the bloodiest conflicts in history, a clash between the forces of Imperial China and those inspired by a Hakka self-proclaimed mystic named Hong Xiuquan (洪秀全), who was also a Christian convert who had claimed that he was the...
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 Famous Ancient Chinese People Topic Center - Chinese   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
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Panthay Rebellion The Panthay Rebellion (1856 - 1873) was a rebellion by the Huis, Chinese Muslims, against the Qing Dynasty in Yunnan Provin...
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 Music of Kazakhstan . Kyrgyzstan . Kazakhstan . Turkmenistan
One-half of its irrigated land is planted in cotton, making it the world s 10th-largest producer; and it possesses the world s fifth-largest reserves of natural gas as well as substantial oil resources.
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.
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During the devastating Anshi Rebellion, Tibet invaded Tang China on a wide front from Xinjiang to Yunnan, sacking the Tang capital in 763, and taking control of southern Xinjiang by the end of the century.
In 1759 a rebellion south of the Tian Shan mountains was put down, thus cementing Manchu rule over Xinjiang.
Following insurgencies against Governor Yang Zengxin in the early 1930s, a rebellion in Kashgar led to the establishment of the short-lived First East Turkistan Republic (1st ETA) in 1933.
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 China History Forum, online chinese history forum > Zhang Xun?
During the rebellion of Anshi (against Anlushan), he was entitled "Zheng Yuan Lin".
During the rebellion of Anshi, this had a great impact.
Chang's supporters won their argument, and he came to be regarded by later generations as an exemplary figure representing uncompromising loyalty.
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 Gao Lishi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He is believed to have run much of the empire during Xuanzong's inattentive later years, and is known to have been richer than many of the nobility of the era.
Gao introduced Yang Guifei to Xuanzong, and was with her when the Imperial army (blaming her and her family for the Anshi Rebellion) demanded her death.
She refused to give herself over to them.
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 Chinese_art   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
750), gives voice to the sufferings of a conscript soldier in the imperial army, even before the beginning of the rebellion; this poem brings out the tension between the need of acceptance and fulfilment of one's duties, and a clear-sighted consciousness of the suffering which this can involve.
The tenor of his work changed as he developed his style and adapted to his surroundings ("chameleon-like" according to Watson): his earliest works are in a relatively derivative, courtly style, but he came into his own in the years of the rebellion.
During the Song dynasty (960-1279), landscapes of more subtle expression appeared; immeasurable distances were conveyed through the use of blurred outlines, mountain contours disappearing into the mist, and impressionistic treatment of natural phenomena.
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 Emperor Daizong of Tang China   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
During the An Lushan Rebellion, he acted as a general and was responsible to represent the royal family to reicieve the two capitals (Luoyang and Chang'an).
At the beginning of his reign, general Prefect-king of Fenyang Guo Ziyi ended the Anshi Rebellion.
In 763, while both Daizong and Guo were in Luoyang, Tibetan forces suddenly occupy capital Chang'an.
www.worldhistory.com /wiki/E/Emperor-Daizong-of-Tang-China.htm   (247 words)

  
 Neo-Confucian Philosophy [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Both traditional and modern historians of China mark the year 755 CE as the great divide within the Tang dynasty.
This was the year of the catastrophic An Lushan rebellion and although the Tang dynasty formally lasted until its final demise in 906, it never recovered its full glory.
Although not a bloody event as persecutions of religions go, many major schools failed to revive fully after 845 and this date, along with the earlier rebellion of An Lushan, marks dramatic changes in the philosophical landscape of China.
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 Foreigners in ancient Chinese history [Archive] - Chinese-forums.com
If you have ever heard of The Anshi Rebellion, you probably know the top general An LuShan who started the rebellion from Nothern China was a mixed stock of Turkic and other ethnicities.
That rebellion brought Tang dynasty into 8 year long civil war and when the government finally won, Much of Northern CHina was in ruins, many peole fled to Southern China.
After that rebellion, Han civilization was never able to build a glorious empire like Tang dynasty did.
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 Origin of a Chinese idiom: A White Cloud at One Moment May Look Like a Grey Dog the Next Moment | Clearharmony - ...
For each performance, Li Guinian would typically get a very handsome reward.
During the Anshi Rebellion, Li Guinian fled to southeastern China to avoid the war and there he lived in poverty.
One day Du Fu happened to meet Li Guinian at a banquet in southeastern China and was able to hear his performance.
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