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	China to the Fall of the Han Dynasty
		China and Korea, 300 to 500 CE China to the Fall of the Han Dynasty
		China's prosperity had risen under Hedi (between the years 88 to 106), and the court of Hedi had become in size and luxury equal to the courts of previous Han emperors.
		Emperor Ling died in 188 or 189, at the age of thirty-three, while military governors were clinging to the greater independence that they had acquired during the war against the Yellow Turbans.
	www.fsmitha.com /h1/ch14.htm (10422 words)

	Emperor Ming of Han - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Han Ming-ti, (28-75) was an emperor of the Chinese Han Dynasty.
		The reigns of Emperor Ming and his son Emperor Zhang were typically considered the golden age of the Eastern Han Emperor and known as the Rule of Ming and Zhang.
		In 57, Emperor Guangwu died, and Crown Prince Zhuang succeeded to the throne as Emperor Ming.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Han_Mingdi (2370 words)

	Han Dynasty
		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[?].
		The beginning of the Han Dynasty can be dated either from 206 BC when the Qin dynasty crumbled or 202 BC when Liu Bang killed Xiang Yu, the leader of a competing rebellion that sought to re-instate the Zhou dynasty aristocracies.
		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 Ming of Jin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		When Emperor Ming tried to commission the official Chi Jian (郗鑒) as the military commander at Hefei (合肥, in modern Hefei, Anhui), positionally behind Wang, Wang resisted, and Emperor Ming was forced to recall Chi.
		Wang Dao, also loyal to Emperor Ming, then falsely declared to the imperial forces that Wang Dun had died, further increasing their morale, and Emperor Ming reinforced his troops by summoning battle-tested soldiers from the northern borders with Later Zhao back to the capital.
		The balance of power that he left was soon broken, however, as Empress Dowager Yu became the regent, and her brother Yu Liang became the most powerful of the officials, eventually offending Su Jun and Zu Yue into a rebellion that damaged Jin for years.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Emperor_Ming_of_Jin_China (910 words)

	Chinese History - Han Dynasty æ¼¢ event history (www.chinaknowledge.de)
		The army reform of Emperor Wudi lead to the stationing of garrisons throughout the empire, in the capitals of the commanderies (jun é¡), from 111 on the standing army was organized in eight commanderies (xiaowei æ ¡å°).
		Emperor Wudi had the obsession to be cursed by witchcraft and to be the victim of political plots of the feudal princes and their consultants ("clients" binke è³“å®¢, "wandering knights" youxia éä¿ ).
		A state as large as Han China after the expansion to the west, south and northeast (see next chapter) lacked junior staff for the many civil offices in the capital and throughout the empire.
	www.chinaknowledge.de /History/Han/han-event.html (8024 words)

	Han Dynasty
		Emperor Wudi expanded China's borders to Vietnam and Korea and pushed the Huns to the south of the Gobi.
		His rise as emperor is unusual because he gained much public support and began the ceremony where a seal of the precious stone was passed to the emperor.
		Descendents of the Han eventually joined in the uprising, and it was the armies of these nobles, under the leadership of Liu Xiu, who killed Wang in the year 22.
	www.chinaculture.org /gb/en_aboutchina/2003-09/24/content_22724.htm (1081 words)

	Han Dynasty - China History - China
		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 ConfucianismConfucian ideal.
		Han court officials who attempted to strip lands out of the landlords faced such enormous resistance that their policies would never be put in to place.
	www.famouschinese.com /virtual/Han_Dynasty (2508 words)

	A Concise History of China, Chapter 4
		The first emperor of the Eastern Jin dynasty employed a monk from the highborn Wang family as a court chaplain, and the next emperor, Mingdi, converted and became the first Chinese monarch to openly champion the new faith.
		China still did not have a money economy, and it was impossibly slow and wasteful to transport the grain and clothing which made up the army's payroll by land; the only way to deliver it was by river or canal.
		Soon she was the emperor's favorite; by giving him a son, something the official empress hadn't done, she pulled ahead of the other concubines and was closing in on the empress herself.
	xenohistorian.faithweb.com /china/ch04.html (8760 words)

	later han dynasty
		Hou Han Shu mentioned that grand general was in charge of five military farming units which were subdivided into the "qu" units of left and right.
		Han Shu mentioned that as many as 600000 horses were raised by Han China in northwestern territories at one time.
		For many years, until the age of 70, he had petitioned time and again with Han Emperor for permission to return to China proper for retirement, and his request was not approved till he asked his historian sister relay a message to the emperor for mercy.
	www.findthelinks.com /history/Huns_Turks/later_han_dynasty.htm (1962 words)

	Chinese Festivals--The Lantern Festival
		Emperor Chengzu had the downtown area set aside as a center for displaying the lanterns.
		Emperor Mingdi ordered that a temple be built to house a statue of Buddha and serve as a repository for the scriptures.
		So Emperor Mingdi ordered his subjects to display lighted lanterns during what was to become the Lantern Festival.
	www.chinavoc.com /festivals/lantern.htm (1025 words)

	The Silk Road
		In China, the Warring States period was brought to an end by the Qin state, which unified China to form the Qin dynasty under Qin Shi Huangdi.
		The Eastern Han emperor, Mingdi, is thought to have sent a representative to India to discover more about this strange faith, and further missions returned bearing scriptures and bringing with them Indian priests.
		China was partially unified again in the Song dynasty, but the Silk Road was not as important as it had been in the Tang.
	sunsite.nus.edu.sg /mw/iss04/silk.html (9269 words)

	Chinese Han Dynasty
		China's cities were soon flooded with western traders and the goods they brought.
		The Emperors placed on the throne during this period included six year old Pingdi, and two year old Ruzi.
		The Western Han dynasty was defeated and the capital was moved east to Luoyang.
	www.asianartmall.com /dhan.htm (228 words)

	Chinese Buddhism on the Silk Road
		The Han emperor Mingdi (who reigned from 57/58 to 75/76 CE) is said by tradition to have been a devotee of both Buddhism and Daoism, and to have sent emissaries to India in search of Buddhist texts.
		Buddhist missionaries were at work in China, translating Buddhist Shravakayana texts into Chinese, from the middle of the first century CE onwards.
		The eventual decline of the importance of Dunhuang as a Buddhist centre was probably due to a combination of causes.
	idp.bl.uk /education/buddhism/chinese/chinese.html (564 words)

	Chinese New Year Lantern,Chinese New Year Lantern Festival,Lantern Festival,Lantern Festival on Chinese New Year, ...
		In China during the Lantern festival, people try to solve the puzzles on the lanterns and eat yuanxiao (glutinous rice ball) and get all their families and friends united in the joyful atmosphere.
		Qinshihuang was the first emperor to order splendid ceremonies each year to please Taiyi and would ask Taiyi to shower favorable weather and good health to him and his people.
		Emperor Mingdi ordered that a temple be built to house a statue of Buddha and which would serve as a store for the scriptures.
	www.123chinesenewyear.com /chinese-new-year-lantern.html (597 words)

	China History Forum, chinese history forum > WANG MANG
		In the end, different members of the Han imperial clan were also fighting one another for the right to be the man who restores the Han dynasty.
		Han wudi was never referred that way while he was alive and nor did any other emperor in Chinese history starting from the Han........
		Similarly, all the other "Han" emperors who competed with Liu Xiu, like Liu Penzi and Liu Yong, were not recognised by the Eastern Han as being of the Han, even if they were members of the imperial clan.
	www.chinahistoryforum.com /lofiversion/index.php/t565.html (3766 words)

	Chinese History - Three Kingdoms (Sanguo) ä¸å event history (www.chinaknowledge.de)
		Cao Cao, having the young emperor in his hands, was able to beat Yuan Shao and conquered the northern part of China until 207.
		From now on, the division of China was decided and finally effected in the years of 220-222 when Cao Cao, Liu Bei and Sun Quan successively called themselved emperors.
		In 222, Sun Quan proclaimed himself emperor of Wu (name of an old state of the lower Yangtse area) and was therewith the third power in a divided China.
	www.chinaknowledge.de /History/Division/sanguo-event.html (2258 words)

	The Silk Road
		The Eastern Han emperor Mingdi is thought to have sent a representative to India to discover more about this strange faith, and further missions returned bearing scriptures, and bringing with them India priests.
		This was considerably influenced by the Himalayan Massif, an effective barrier between China and India, and hence the Buddhism in China is effectively derived from the Gandhara culture by the bend in the Indus river, rather than directly from India.
		This restored China to the state it had been in in the Han dynasty, with full control of the western regions, but also including the territories and Tibet and Mongolia.
	www.ess.uci.edu /~oliver/silk.html (8680 words)

	Khitans - Political, Social, Cultural, Historical Analysis Of China -- Research Into Origins Of Huns, Uygurs, Khitans, ...
		Posteriro Han Dynasty continued the pacification policy as to the Tanguts, and further seceded Jingzhou (Mizhi county of Shenxi) to Tangut's Li Yiyin in AD 949 and conferred the title of "zhong shu ling" (minister for central secretariat).
		Posteriro Han Dynasty continued the pacification policy as to the Tanguts, and further seceded Jingzhou (Mizhi county of Shenxi) to Li Yiyin in AD 949 and conferred the title of "zhong shu ling" (minister for central secretariat).
		Northern China was inevitably mingled with nomads from Manchuria and Mongolia.
	www.uglychinese.org /khitan.htm (9935 words)

	The Three Kingdoms -- Political, Social, Cultural, Historical Analysis Of China
		Han Dynasty possessed the typical chracateristics as far as the pattern of power corruption was concerned.
		Han Emperor Lingdi was notorious for his sexual indulgence, game playing and resorting to over 10 eunuchs (zhong chang shi) for governance.
		Han Lingdi thought that the Qiangic rebellions were quelled and conferred onto Dong Zhuo the title of a marquis and the post of zhou mu for Bingzhou.
	www.uglychinese.org /threestates.htm (8395 words)

	Emperor Ming of Han China (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Han Ming-ti (AD 28 - AD 75) was an emperor of the Chinese Han Dynasty.
		next year the emperor ordered the construction White Horse Temple three li west of the capital Luoyang to remember the horse that carried the sutras.
		Emperor Guangwu of Han China (eldest son of)
	www.freeglossary.com /Emperor_Han_Mingdi_of_China (436 words)

	Liu Xang (Mingdi) - Eastern (Later) Han Ruler and Emperor Biographies - English
		Ming-di’s rule was considered harsh and unlike other Emperors, he associated himself with Daoism and theological Confucianism.
		These experiments usually ended when the monk would die, but rather than accepting the fact that everlasting life was unattainable, their followers explained the failure to be the result of circumstances other than human mortality.
		This annoyed China's authorities -- Confucianists and gentry-bureaucrats -- who feared that unapproved religious cults might develop into a focal point of opposition to their authority.
	www.kongming.net /novel/han/liuxang.php (356 words)

	Lantern Festival - Chinese Culture Base Article
		The 15th day of the 1st month is the Chinese Lantern Festival because the first month is called yuan-month and it is the first night to see a full moon.
		According to the Chinese tradition, at the very beginning of a new year, when there is a bright full moon hanging in the sky, there should be thousands of colorful lanterns hung out for people to appreciate.
		It is believed that Yuanxiao is named after a palace maid, Yuanxiao, of Emperor Wu Di of the Han Dynasty.
	www.mqzy.com /learnchinese/culture/Chinese_Lantern_Festival.htm (680 words)

	Ban Chao - Famous Ancient Chinese People - Chinese
		Ban Chao is said to have been extremely effective at expelling the Xiongnu from the Tarim Basin, and at bringing the various people of the Western Regions under Chinese rule during the time of the Emperor Ming of Han ChinaHan Mingdi Emperor (57-75 CE).
		He brought the totality of the Tarim Basin under Chinese control, and also collaborated with the Kushans in 84 CE in his battles against the Sogdians who were menacing Kashgar.
		His father was Ban Biao (3-54 CE) who started the History of the Western Han Dynasty (Hanshu) in 36 CE, which was completed by his son Ban Gu (32-92 CE) and his daughter (Ban Chao's brother and sister) Ban Zhao.
	www.famouschinese.com /virtual/Ban_Chao (505 words)

	Emperors of China (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Each Emperor at birth [except in the Yuan Dynasty received a given name and a personal name.
		After the accession of the Emperor the personal name became taboo.
		After the death of an Emperor, a posthumous or temple name was used in Confucian rites.
	users.bigpond.net.au /bstone/emperors.htm (98 words)

	China
		Emperors were often known by several different names - the family name, reign title, temple name and various honorary titles.
		Many early emperors had more than one reign title but by the Ming and Qing periods, just one was kept throughout the reign.
		Mingdi (Brilliant E) Shaodi (Young E) Gao Gui Xiang Gong (Duke of Noble Country)
	www.gaminggeeks.org /Resources/KateMonk/Orient/China/Rulers.htm (667 words)

	Han Dynasty
		The long period of Han dynastic rule consolidated the unification of the Qin but with a lessening of the autocratic use of force.
		The majority of Chinese people still call themselves 'Han Chinese' and the language is often called 'hanyu'.
		After the brief interregnum when Wang Mang established some significant economic and social reforms the Han dynasty was re-established in the more easterly city of Luoyang.
	sacu.org /dynhan.html (208 words)

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		He was a Buddhist monk who in 629 went on a 10,000 mile pilgrimage from central China to India in order to study Buddhist manuscripts in their original form.
		And, on a larger scale, in 747 the Chinese general Gao Xianzhi (Kao Hsien-chih) led an army from China into Yasin and Gilgit, where he defeated the Tibetans and checked the spread of Islam over the passes of the Pamirs.
		Another source for the history of the Silk Road, and travel from China, along the Silk Road, can be found in the various books by, and about, the archeaological explorations of the region.
	www.billbuxton.com /climbing.html (7861 words)

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