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  History of China
China is the world's oldest continuous major civilization, with written records dating back about 3,500 years and with 5,000 years being commonly used by Chinese as the age of the civilization.
China was ruled by two independent dynasties, one in the south and the other in the north, and hence coined the era of Southern and Northern Dynasties.
China was divided yet again, into the PRC on the mainland and the ROC on the island of Taiwan, with two governments that each regarded themselves as the one true Chinese government and denouncing each other as illegitimate.
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 ipedia.com: History of China Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
China is the world's oldest continuous major civilization, with written records dating back about 3,500 years and with 5,000 years being commonly used by Chinese as the age of their civilization.
Emperor Guangwu of Han China reinstated the Han dynasty with the support of land-holding and merchant families at Luoyang, east of Xian; hence the new era is termed the Eastern Han Dynasty.
China was divided yet again, into the PRC on the mainland and the ROC on Taiwan and several outlying islands of Fujian, with two governments, each of which regarded itself as the one true Chinese government and denounced the other as illegitimate.
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 Emperor Guangwu of Han China   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
Emperor Guangwu (January 15, 5 BC - March 29, 57), born Liu Xiu, was an emperor of the Chinese Han Dynasty, restorer of the dynasty in AD 25 and thus founder of the Latter Han (the name of the restored Han Dynasty), who ruled over the whole of China from 36 until 57.
After assembling forces and proclaiming himself Emperor in the face of competitors, he was able to defeat his rivals, destroy the peasant army of the Red Eyebrows (&36196;&30473;) who were wreaking havoc in the country, and finally reunify the whole of China in AD 36.
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 Han Dynasty   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
During the Han Dynasty China officially became Confucian state and prospered domestically: agriculture handicrafts commerce flourished and the population reached 50 Meanwhile the empire extended its political and influence over Vietnam Central Asia Mongolia and Korea before it finally collapsed under a of domestic and external pressures.
Emperor Wu decided that Taoism was no suitable for China and officially declared China be a Confucian state; however like the emperors before he combined Legalist methods with the Confucian ideal.
Emperor Wu also dispatched Zhang Qian twice as his envoy to the Regions and in the process pioneered the known as the Silk Road from Chang'an (today's Xi'an Shaanxi Province) through Xinjiang and Central Asia and on to east coast of the Mediterranean Sea.
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 Han Dynasty   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
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.
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.
China also sent missions to Parthia, which were followed up by reciprocal missions from Parthian envoys around 100 BC: :"When the Han envoy first visited the kingdom of Anxi (Parthia), the king of Anxi dispatched a party of 20,000 horsemen to meet them on the Eastern border of the kingdom...
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 Emperor Guangwu of Han Summary
Emperor Guangwu (January 15, 5 BC - March 29, 57), born Liu Xiu, was an emperor of the Chinese Han Dynasty, restorer of the dynasty in AD 25 and thus founder of the Later Han or Eastern Han (the restored Han Dynasty).
Emperor Gengshi's regime was only able to obtain nominal submission from many regions of the empire, and one of the trouble region was the region north of the Yellow River.
Although Emperor Guangwu had already created many of his generals and officials marquesses, in 37, after the conquest of the empire was largely complete, he readjusted their marches in accordance with their accomplishments.
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 Wikinfo | History of China   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
Politically, China alternated between periods of political union and disunion, and was often conquered by external ethnicities, which often eventually were assimilated into the Chinese identity.
The word China was probably derived from "Chin" (Qin), whereas could be "Sin" from archaic Chinese, the engendered of tonal bifurcation and voicing distinction of Middle Chinese still remains in many dialects like Cantonese as well as Japanese and Korean.
China was divided yet again, into the PRC on the mainland and the ROC on Taiwan and several outlying islands of Fujian, with two governments that each regarded themselves as the one true Chinese government and denouncing each other as illegitimate.
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 Emperor Ming of Han - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Han Ming-ti, (28-75) was an emperor of the Chinese Han Dynasty.
Emperor Guangwu, then still an official under Emperor Gengshi, had married Yin in 23 and, after he became emperor in 25, had wanted to create her empress, but she declined because she had no sons at that point.
In 57, Emperor Guangwu died, and Crown Prince Zhuang succeeded to the throne as Emperor Ming.
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 History of China - Article from FactBug.org - the fast Wikipedia mirror site   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
The Han Dynasty (漢朝;) emerged in 202 BC; it was the first dynasty to embrace Confucianism, which became the ideological underpinning of all regimes until the end of imperial China.
Emperor Guangwu of Han China reinstated the Han dynasty with the support of land-holding and merchant families at Luoyang, east of Xian; hence the new era is termed the Eastern Han Dynasty (東漢朝;).
With the proclamation of the People's Republic of China on October 1, 1949, China was divided yet again, into the PRC on the mainland and the ROC on Taiwan and several outlying islands of Fujian, with two governments, each of which regarded itself as the one true Chinese government and denounced the other as illegitimate.
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 Liu Ying - Famous Ancient Chinese People - Chinese
Liu Ying (劉英) was a son of Emperor Guangwu of Han ChinaEmperor Guangwu of Han, and half-brother of Emperor Ming of Han ChinaEmperor Ming.
Born to the Lady Xu (許氏), a junior consort of Emperor Guangwu, Liu Ying was given the rank of duke in 39 CE, and prince (wáng) in 41 CE.
Among his supposed crimes was the most heinous of those in Han law: usurping the prerogatives of the emperor, and great improprietry and immorality in his conduct toward the throne (大逆不道).
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Death of Wang Mang, "usurper" of the throne of the Han Dynasty and Emperor of the Xin Dynasty
Death of Chinese emperor Emperor Guangwu of Han; accession of Chinese emperor Han Mingdi
Death of Han emperor Ming; accession of emperor Zhang of Han China (57-88)
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 Han Dynasty - Definition, explanation
From 138 BC, Emperor Wu also dispatched Zhang Qian twice as his envoy to the Western Regions, and in the process pioneered the route known as the Silk Road from Chang'an (today's Xi'an, Shaanxi Province), through Xinjiang and Central Asia, and on to the east coast of the Mediterranean Sea.
China also sent missions to Parthia, which were followed up by reciprocal missions from Parthian envoys around 100 BC:
Prestige of a newly founded dynasty during the reigns of the first three emperors was barely able to hinder the corruption; however Confucian scholar gentry turned against eunuchs for their corrupted authorities, while consort clans and eunuchs struggled for power in subsequent reigns.
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 Emperor Guangwu of Han - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He reached two commanderies in modern central Hebei that were still loyal to Emperor Gengshi -- Xindu (信都, roughly modern Hengshui, Hebei) and Herong (和戎, roughly part of modern Shijiajuang, Hebei).
Emperor Guangwu spared them, including their puppet pretender Emperor Penzi.
Gongsun Shu (公孫述), who claimed the title emperor of his independent empire Chengjia (成家), who controlled modern Sichuan and Chongqing.
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