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  Chinese History - Jin Dynasty 晉 economy (www.chinaknowledge.de)
The Jin government itself contributed to the deterioration of the household tax system by granting land including households to the mighty clans that the Sima family wanted to be loyal.
One eigth of the total population of the north left their homelands, constituing one sixth of the Eastern Jin population in the south.
Although in total, the Eastern Jin period was a quite peaceful time (except some civil wars), the economy was only able to recover very slowly.
www.chinaknowledge.de /History/Division/jin-econ.html   (1061 words)

  
 Battle of the Fei River - China History Forum, chinese history forum
This unexpected defeat at the hands of Eastern Jin troops apparently had a big impact on the morale of the Qin army, and even on the confidence of Fu Jian himself.
Fu Rong had reported that the Eastern Jin force was small and the only fear was that they would escape, hence the eagerness to engage them in battle as soon as possible.
The Eastern Jin Army of the Northern Garrison may have been a pretty well-trained and well-motivated force, but they went in without any real plan of attack, much less a cunning plan to defeat the enemy.
www.chinahistoryforum.com /index.php?showtopic=131   (4086 words)

  
 A Chronology of World Political History (1 - 500 C.E.)
Liu Zhao succeeded to the [Eastern] Han throne.
He Jin, a relative of the [Eastern] Han dowager empress, united with the warlords Yuan Shao and Dong Zhuo in a plot to eliminate the eunuch group.
Jia Nanfeng, Empress of [Western] Jin, seized powers and slaughtered a number of princes of the Sima royal house who contended powers with her, which led to a civil war among the [Western] Jin ruling class, the War of the Eight Princes.
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 Jin Dynasty (265-420) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Meanwhile remnants of the Jìn court fled from the north to the south and reestablished the Jìn court at Jiankang, south-east of Luoyang and Chang'an and near modern-day Nanjing, under Prince of Longya.
Prominent local families of Zhu, Gan, Lu, Gu and Zhou supported the proclamation of Prince of Langye as Emperor Yuan of the Eastern Jìn Dynasty (ch: 東晉 317-420) when the news of the fall of Chang'an reached the south.
It survived the rebellions of Wang Dun and Su Jun.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Eastern_Jin_Dynasty   (527 words)

  
 Eastern Jin Dynasty 217-420   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The northern tribes constantly invaded China throughout the third and fourth centuries A.D. In 304 Liu Yuan, a Xiongnu noble, established the Kingdom of Han in the southwestern part of present day Shanxi Province.
His forces overran Luoyang, the capital of Jin, and forced Emperor Jin Yuandi (317-322) to remove his capital to Jiankang (present day Nanjing): hence the Eastern Jin Dynasty (317-420) began in Central and South China.
Eastern Jin Dynasty, and the Distribution of Nomadic Tribes
www.paulnoll.com /China/Dynasty/dynasty-Eastern-Jin.html   (169 words)

  
 Jin Dynasty (265 — 420) - Ancient China
Jin Dynasty was founded after the Three Kingdoms Period (220-260) and was preceded by the Southern and Northern Dynasties in China.
Luoyang became the capital city of Western Jin and Jiankang, which is now presently known as Nanjing, became the capital city of Eastern Jin.
Historians believed that while Western Jin Dynasty was successful in unifying China after the Three Kingdoms Period, the Eastern Jin failed to do this because it only controlled a portion of China, which was still undeveloped because of its location.
www.ancient-china.net /articles/jin-dynasty-265-420   (862 words)

  
 History of Ancient China: Eastern Jin Dynasty
In the Eastern Jin period, the development of powerful family politics reached its peak as royal power was on the decline.
During the over one-hundred-year reign of the Eastern Jin, noble families from the Central Plains were in a dominant situation and Wang, Xie, Yu and Huan families even determined state affairs.
During the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the noble families devoted themselves to the economic development.
www.travelchinaguide.com /intro/history/jin/eastern.htm   (855 words)

  
 JWSR v5n3 - David Wilkinson
Eastern Jin continued the process of decentralization, territorialization, and feudalization of its predecessor.
Chao however then failed to complete an attack on Eastern Jin 342, failed in an attempt to further subjugate Former Yen (and lost overlordship of it), was consequently repudiated by the Tobas and Liang, and was repulsed in an attack on Liang.
The Eastern Turk Kaghanate was divided, partly by lineage rivalry, partly by Sui diplomacy, from the 580's onward.
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In 317, Sima Rui, a member of the Western Jin imperial family stationed in Jiankang (now Nanjing in Jiangsu), re-established the Jin government, which became known as the Eastern Jin.
Content to retain sovereignty over just a part of the Western Jin territories, the Eastern Jin lasted 104 years and was overthrown in 420 by the Song Dynasty which was founded by Liu Y¨¹.
After the Eastern Jin and the Sixteen States, Chinese history entered an era of separation and confrontation between the south and the north.
acc6.its.brooklyn.cuny.edu /~hzhuo/gin.html   (383 words)

  
 Western and Eastern Jin
Chin, Frank Fa-ken. "The element of regionalism in medieval China: observations on the founding of the Eastern Chin." In Chine ancienne; section organisee par Michel Soymie, 19th International Congress of Orientalists.
Discusses the the discovery and reconstruction of Eastern Zhou texts found in A.D. 281 in the tomb of King Aixiang of Wei (d.
Wei Jin shixue di sixiang yu shehui jichu 魏晋史學的思想與社會基礎 [The Intellectual and Social Basis of Wei Jin Historiography] Taibei: Dongda tushu gufen youxian gongsi, 2000.
e-asia.uoregon.edu /earlychina/jin.htm   (1066 words)

  
 History of Ancient China: Jin Dynasty
Jin was historically divided into two periods: the Western Jin (265 - 316) with Luoyang as its capital city and Eastern Jin as Jiankang (present Nanjing in Jiangsu Province) became the capital city.
Jin Dynasty was the only period, which unified the country during the period between the Wei, the Jin and the Southern and Northern Dynasties (420 - 589), though this kind of achievement was not lasting.
Although Jin Dynasty was short and full of conflicts, the mix between nationalities was accelerated through the long-term contacts and mutual influences.
www.travelchinaguide.com /intro/history/jin/index.htm   (222 words)

  
 Eastern Jin Dynasty
The Southern part of China continued to be ruled by people of Han descent at their southern capital of Nanjing.
The Buddhist, Daoist and Confucian philosophies vied for dominance in the various fiefdoms of the former Empire.
Short reigns by weak emperors failed to invigorate the Eastern Jin Dynasty and eventually the attacks of the Toba Wei in the north led to a military coup.
sacu.org /dynejin.html   (112 words)

  
 division
The northern part of China fell under the control of the Xiongnu, as the decedents of the Western Jin royal families fled to the south.
The Eastern Jin never stopped their endeavors to unify China, but they were not successful.
After the reign of the Eastern Jin was over, four other dynasties followed in the south----the Song, Qi, Liang and then Chen.
www.hometownchina.com /division.htm   (597 words)

  
 Sima Dezong (Andi) - Eastern Jin Emperor Biographies - English
He ascended to the throne at the age of 15 after his father was killed by one of his own concubines.
Early in his reign, though much of the country was under Jin’s control, it was divided into two factions: one of them led by his uncle, Sima Daozi, and another led by a general named Wang Gong who had previously been dispatched by Sima Yao to kill Sima Daozi.
In AD 403 he usurped the Jin throne and proclaimed himself the emperor, placing Sima Dezong under house arrest.
www.kongming.net /novel/jin/simadezong.php   (315 words)

  
 Weights
Since we know that 1 Jin is 16 Liang, one Qin Iiang must have been approximately 17 grams, and the Han Liang approximately 15,5 grams.
From the Jin to the Tang the Wen was the monetary unit.
The Jin was initially, before the Han, a monetary unit, and later it became a unit of weight.
chinesecoins.lyq.dk /weights.html   (1231 words)

  
 Chinese History - Jin Dynasty 晉 (www.chinaknowledge.de)
The Jin Dynasty - founded by Sima Yan 司馬炎 and named after an old state of the Warring States Period 戰國 - is divided into two parts called Western Jin (Xijin 西晉) and Eastern Jin (Dongjin 東晉), names that follow the traditional division of Han in Western 西漢 and Eastern Han 東漢.
Together with the imperial clan, a great part of the northern aristocracy fled to the south where they had to arrange their rule with the powerful local magnates of the lower Yangtse 長江 area.
The Eastern Jin was the first of a couple of dynasties (Southern Dynasties 南朝) that developed a culture different from that of northern China.
www.chinaknowledge.de /History/Division/jin.html   (220 words)

  
 Sima Rui (Yuandi) Eastern Jin Emperor Biographies - English
Sima Rui was born in the year AD 276, and was a cousin of Sima Ye.
During his reign, there was a mass migration of Han Chinese fleeing from famine and barbarian rule to the north, but the gentry classes opposed the government’s policy on admitting refugees.
Sima Rui, despite his noble background, disagreed with the gentry and allowed the refugees to enter Eastern Jin.
www.kongming.net /novel/jin/simarui.php   (187 words)

  
 History of China: Jin Dynasty, Western Jin Dynasty, Eastern Jin Dynasty, Nanjing
The Jin Dynasty was initialized by a minister of the State Wei.
It comprised two periods: the Western Jin Dynasty (265-316) and the Eastern Jin Dynasty (25-220).
However in the Eastern Jin Dynasty with the capital Jiankang (the present Nanjing) in Southern China, there were as many as 16 states established by ethnic groups as well as the Han people, which also accelerated the mutual influence of culture.
www.warriortours.com /intro/history/jin/index.htm   (115 words)

  
 China, 1–500 A.D. | Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Internal tensions and pressures from northern tribes such as the Xiongnu and the Xianbei eventually force the Han Chinese south of the Yangzi River, where a minor prince gathers the court together and establishes the Eastern Jin (ca.
This era is known as the Six Dynasties, in reference to the native rulers in the south, or the
317–420 A.D. The Eastern Jin dynasty, with its capital at Nanjing in Jiangsu Province, sees an extraordinary flowering of the arts and is a seminal period for the development of Chinese literati culture.
www.metmuseum.org /toah/ht/05/eac/ht05eac.htm   (928 words)

  
 Chinese Porcelain History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The age of civil wars and disunity began with the era of the Three Kingdoms (Wei, Shu, and Wu, which had overlapping reigns during the period A.D. In later times, fiction and drama greatly romanticized the reputed chivalry of this period.
Unity was restored briefly in the early years of the Jin dynasty (A.D. The Jin could not long contain the invasions of the nomadic peoples, though, and was in A.D. 317 forced to flee from Luoyang to the south and reestablished itself at Nanjing.
The transfer of the capital coincided with China's political fragmentation into a succession of dynasties that was to last from A.D. 304 to 589.
www.gotheborg.com /chronology/sixdynasties.shtml   (250 words)

  
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344-405), Admonitions of the Court Instructress to the Palace Ladies, Eastern Jin pd., handscroll, ink and colors on silk.
Attributed to Gu Kaizhi (ca.344-405), Goddess of the Luo River, Eastern Jin pd., handscroll, ink and colors on silk.
7 Sages of the Bamboo Grove and Rong Qiqi, Eastern Jin pd. early 5th c., impressed clay bricks excavated from a tomb near Nanjing.
www.wisc.edu /arth2test/ah307/s06g04.htm   (211 words)

  
 Chinese Dynasties
While the Chinese people, as well as scholars who specialize in Chinese history, are well aware of these Dynasties by name and when they occurred, those who have a more cursory interest in things Chinese may not gain much insight by typical references to "the Warring States period," or the Manchu Dynasty (the Qing Dynasty).
**  The transition between the Western (or former) and Eastern (or later) Han Dynasties is marked by the rule of the Xin king Wang Mang, from 9 A.D. [6 A.D.] to 23 A.D. and the usurper Xuan for one or two more years; they are often subsumed under the Western Han period.
At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Emperor Liu Shan ruled in exile from 224-263 A.D. ***   The Ten Kingdoms were the Wu, Nan Tang (Southern Tang), Wu Yue, Chu, Min, Nan Han (Southern Han), Qian Shu (Former Shu), Hou Shu (Later Shu), Jing Nan (Southern Jing), and Bei Han (Northern Han).
www.itmonline.org /arts/dynasties.htm   (1544 words)

  
 Eastern Jin Ambassadors in Saro; When? Who? - China History Forum, chinese history forum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
During the reign of Naemul-maripkan (title used prior to the adoption of the Wang suffix) (AD 356-402), ambassadors from the Eastern Jin visited Saro (the title of the capital and state of SW Korean peninsula that later became Silla).
Saro was still often known as Chen-Han to the Chinese during the Eastern Jin - it was also called Sinlu by the Wei (Three Kingdoms) and Sinluo or Siluo by the Liu-Song.
However, in the Jin Shu the only recorded contacts between Korean states and the Eastern Jin during this period are:
www.chinahistoryforum.com /index.php?showtopic=2615   (383 words)

  
 Eastern Air Jin Jiang Hotel - Beijing hotel - China hotel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Eastern Air Jin Jiang Hotel - Beijing Hotel - Hotels in Beijing China.
The Eastern Air Jinjiang Hotel, Beijing is close to the Beijing Capital International Airport, just 10 minute drive away via the airport expressway.
It is ideal for overnight transit stays or for the first or last night of trips.
www.passionasia.com /hotel_info.cfm/hotel_id/11654.htm   (256 words)

  
 The Art of Chinese Landscape Painting
The great variety of stylesand techniques created by Chinese ancient masters has made landscape painting not only an important segment of Chinese culture but also an outstanding symbol of Eastern art.
It was in the Eastern Jin Dynasty and the Northern and Southern dynasties that it began to develop into an independent art form.
As early as the Jin Dynasty, painting devoted its service to the cause of Buddhism.
home.att.net /~cheung.helena/hsudan/2.html   (622 words)

  
 DAOIST CENTER: Outer History of China   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The Eastern Zhou was a time of shrinking control, due the continued invasion of the outsiders who had conquered Western Zhou.
King who was forced to flee to the eastern capital, marking the beginning of later Zhou decline, and the start of the Spring and Autumn period.
317-420 CE The Jin capital was sacked by the external Xiong-nu horsemen in 311 CE, bringing about the collapse of the Jin and the loss of the north.
home.comcast.net /~piannone/o-s/ch-outerhist.html   (5387 words)

  
 Ancient China to Modern
Eastern Zhou, Chou Period: Spring and Autumn period 770 - 476 B.C. China: Eastern Zhou, Spring and Autumn, Warring States (771 - 221 BC)Images
Eastern Jin A.D. China: Qin, Han (221 BC - 589 AD)Images
Eastern Zhou: The Beliefs of Confucious and Taoism or Daoism appear.
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When Emperor Changzu of the Ming Dynasty died in 1424, sixteen persons were buried alive with him.
In the eastern and western ‘wells’ on either side of the Changling Mausoleum (the largest of the Ming Tombs) are the remains of his immolated concubines.
After the Qin and Han dynasties, tomb figurines began to be used instead of human
www.antique-chinese-furniture.com /chinese_culture   (1180 words)

  
 San Zi Jing: The Three-Character Classic
Before the Xia, the throne was not hereditary.
The 800 years include the period of the Eastern Zhou, when Zhou rule was only nominal.
The court moved east to present day Luoyang.
www.yellowbridge.com /onlinelit/sanzijing3.html   (184 words)

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