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  Britain.tv Wikipedia - Han dynasty
The reign of the Han Dynasty, lasting 400 years, is commonly considered within China to be one of the greatest periods in the entire history of China.
The western-eastern Han convention is currently used to avoid confusion with the Later Han Dynasty of the Period of the Five Dynasties and the Ten Kingdoms although the former-later nomenclature was used in history texts including Sima Guang's Zizhi Tongjian.
Emperor Wu decided that Taoism was no longer suitable for China, and officially declared China to be a Confucian state; however, like the Emperors of China before him, he combined Legalist methods with the Confucian ideal.
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 Han Dynasty
During the Han Dynasty, China officially became a Confucian state and prospered domestically: extending its political and cultural influence over Vietnam, Central Asia, Mongolia, and Korea before it finally collapsed under a mixture of domestic and external pressures.
The western-eastern Han convention is used nowadays to avoid confusion with the Later Han Dynasty[?] of the Period of the Five Dynasties and the Ten Kingdoms though the earlier nomenclature was used in traditional historical texts like Si-ma Guang's Zi Zhi Tung Jian[?].
Emperor Wu decided that Taoism is no longer suitable for China, and officially declared China to be a Confucian state; however, alike the emperors before him, he combined Legalist methods with the Confucian ideal.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ea/East_Han.html   (1155 words)

  
 Emperor Chong of Han - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Han Ch'ung-ti, (143-145) was an emperor of the Chinese Han Dynasty and the eighth emperor of the Eastern Han period.
Emperor Chong was the only son of Emperor Shun.
As Emperor Chong was only a toddler, Emperor Shun's wife Empress Dowager Liang served as regent.
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 Great Wall of China - Qin Dynasty
Emperor Wu: The next reign of Emperor Wu, comprising the years 140 to 87 BC, was one of the most important periods in Chinese history.
The usurpation of Wang Mang [Frederick-Gorman]: The cause of the downfall of the Han Dynasty is to be traced to the ambition of its imperial women.
The fact that Emperor Wu caused the mother of his son to be put to death before he appointed him heir, is sufficient to show that the interference of an empress dowager in affairs of state had long been a matter to be dreaded.
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 building of the walls
Han emissary countered it by stating that Chanyu Modok even engaged in patricide while Han prince rebellion was merely an argument between father and son due to instigation by prime minister.
However, Han army was informed of the invasion beforehand and thoroughly defeated the three Hunnic columns with the armies from Zhangye "tai-shou" [magistrate] and auxiliary troops from the military farming areas.
Han court also dispatched representatives to kings and county magistrates as either military officials or civil service officials, which were validated by excavations from Wulei ruins in Luntai county.
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 The Ultimate Han Dynasty Dog Breeds Information Guide and Reference
The western-eastern Han convention is used nowadays to avoid confusion with the Later Han Dynasty of the Period of the Five Dynasties and the Ten Kingdoms although the former-later nomenclature was used in history texts including Sima Guang's Zizhi Tongjian.
The Han dynasty, after which the members of the ethnic majority in China, the "people of Han," are named, was notable also for its military prowess.
Emperor Wu decided that Taoism was no longer suitable for China, and officially declared China to be a Confucian state; however, like the emperors before him, he combined Legalist methods with the Confucian ideal.
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 2. The Han Dynasty - All Empires
Han Gaozu ruled for less than a decade, and his main contributions were to consolidate the dynasty.
China was deep in poverty and most of the Western Han infrastructure was in ruins from the war.
Weak or infant emperor were manipulated by eunuchs and powerful court officials to their own means, and the peasants, burdened heavily with taxation, rose in revolt.
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 Emperor Zhi of Han - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Emperor Zhi of Han (Traditional Chinese: 漢質帝;; Simplified Chinese: 漢质帝; Hanyu Pinyin: Hàn Zhí Dì; Wade-Giles: Han Chih-ti; 138-146) was an emperor of the Chinese Han Dynasty.
After Emperor Zhi's death, Liang Ji, under pressure by the key officials, was forced to summon a meeting of the officials to decide whom to enthrone as the new emperor.
Long after Emperor Zhi's death, in 175, Emperor Ling bestowed on Emperor Zhi's mother Consort Chen the honorific title of Princess Xiao of Bohai, in recognition of her status as mother of an emperor.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Emperor_Zhi_of_Han_China   (698 words)

  
 AAS Abstracts: China Session 64   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
In Han theory men were created through a process of controlled change (hua), and each stage in the human life cycle was a transition that had to be secured through mastery of transformation.
Such metamorphoses were understood as responses to actions of the emperor or his officials, and their interpretation was a fundamental element of the political discourse of the period.
Han thinkers thus developed theories of fetal education (tai jiao) that would secure a proper birth, insisted on the centrality of education (jiao hua) in creating proper humans and preserving the social order, and devoted considerable attention to the last transformation, death.
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 Han Dynasty - China History - China
During the Han Dynasty, China officially became a ConfucianismConfucian state and prospered domestically: agriculture, handicrafts and commerce flourished, and the population reached 50 million.
The Han dynasty, after which the members of the ethnic majority in China, the "Han Chinesepeople of Han," are named, was notable also for its military prowess.
Emperor Wu decided that Taoism was no longer suitable for China, and officially declared China to be a Confucian state; however, like the emperors before him, he combined Legalist methods with the ConfucianismConfucian ideal.
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ranking alongside Emperor Taizong of the Tang dynasty and the Kangxi Emperor of the Qing dynasty.
Emperor Wu came to believe that this would be the most effective method to maintain social order and so put these officials in power.
In 99 BC, Emperor Wu commissioned another expedition force aimed at crushing Xiongnu, but both prongs of the expedition force would fail — Li Guangli\'s forces became trapped but was able to free itself and withdraw, while Li Ling (李陵), Li Guang\'s grandson, after inflicting large losses on Xiongnu forces, was captured.
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 Untitled Document   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
He burned most books in China, joined various walls into the Great Wall through forced labor, forced farmers to give half of their crops to support his vast armies, buried alive scholars who questioned his rule, and was buried with the terra cotta army in Xian.
He was known as the Lord of PEI and the King of Han Wan and the Emperor Han Gau Jo, fonder of the Han Empire (202 BC to 220 AD).
Han Gau Jo, meaning the highest ancestor of the Han, for 'Father of the Han'.
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 China   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
Revered in China during his lifetime in a way not easy for non-Chinese to understand, he was enormously influential around the world as well.
It is essentially a corridor running from the upper Yellow River in the east, along the verge between the Tibetan plateau on the one hand and the Gobi desert on the other, to the edge of the Xinjiang wastes in the west.
It formed with the encouragement of China, which needed a buffer zone between itself and the then-aggressive Tibetans, but Nan Chao soon became expansionist in it's own right, and proved to be a considerable threat to China at times.
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 Chinese History - Han Dynasty æ¼¢ literature, thought, and philosophy (www.chinaknowledge.de)
During the time of Emperor Wudi 漢武帝, the Confucian scholar Dong Zhongshu 董仲舒 admonished the ruler to establish an academy (taixue 太學) which should produce scholars (boshi 博士) to educate the crown prince (recommended by Jia Yi 賈宜 in his book Xinshu 旰書 "New Essays") and to produce an elite for governmental offices.
The orthodox Confucianism of the Han Dynasty was not identical to the man-centered philosophy of Confucius who stressed good behaviour of the ruler according to the old customs.
Ban Biao 班彪 and his son Ban Gu 班固 wrote the History of the Former Han Dynasty (Hanshu 漢書) in the biographical-thematic style of the universal history Shiji 史記 (ending during the reign of Emperor Han Wudi), a style that was prevalent for official histories (zhengshi 正史) during the whole history of the Chinese empire.
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 Ethics of China 7 BC To 1279 by Sanderson Beck
A Han uprising was put down, and in 10 CE Han nobles were demoted to commoners, as a mutiny in Central Asia was crushed.
So much silk was exported by Han China that Rome noticed a drain on their gold and silver to the east, though the Han government tried to prevent the smuggling of iron and weapons.
After the Later Han emperor was assassinated at the end of 950, the popular military leader Guo Wei proclaimed the Great Zhou dynasty (951-60) that unified most of northern China and in 955 melted down precious metals taken from Buddhist shrines to make coins.
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 Han Dynasty   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
From 206 to 202 BC, there was actually no emperor in China; and the principal event in this period of anarchy, was what we call the Struggle between Chu and Han.
It was a continuous conflict between Xiang Yu [Gregoire-Marco] and Liu Bang [Rucker-Lewis], the former a native of Wu, and the latter of Pei.
Peace was at length concluded, and the Great Canal, by mutual consent, was made the dividing line between the kingdoms of Chu and Han.
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 Eastern Han Dynasty Chronology   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
85 AD Ban Biao's The History of the Western Han Dynasty is published.
166 AD Near Eastern merchants arrive in Tonkin, China claiming to be a Roman embassy.
Cao Pi accepts Emperor Xian's offer of abdication and the Han Dynasty comes to an end once and for all.
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