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	Emperor Wu of Han - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Emperor Wu successfully repelled the nomadic Xiongnu from systematically raiding northern China and dispatched his envoy Zhang Qian in 139 BC to seek an alliance with the Yuezhi of modern Uzbekistan.
		Emperor Wu was born as Prince Che to Emperor Jing and one of his favorite concubines, Consort Wang Zhi in 156 BC.
		Emperor Wu was greatly pleased by this gesture, and he dispatched an expedition force to attack Minyue, over the objection of one of his key advisors, Liu An, a royal relative and the Prince of Huainan.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Emperor_Wu_of_Han_China (5919 words)

	Emperor of China - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Emperor of China or Huángdì (皇帝) was the head of government and head of state of China from the Qin Dynasty in 221 BC until the fall of the Qing Dynasty in 1912, with brief interruptions in 1915 and 1917.
		Wanli Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Guangxu Emperor of the Qing Dynasty).
		The Emperor's family, termed the Imperial Family, is made up of the Emperor as the head, the Empress (皇后) as the primary consort, leader of the harem, and Mother of the Nation (國母).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Emperor_of_China (1297 words)

	Chinese History, Regent Tour China
		The Han rulers modified some of the harsher aspects of the previous dynasty; Confucian ideals of government, out of favor during the Qin period, were adopted as the creed of the Han empire, and Confucian scholars gained prominent status as the core of the civil service.
		The Han dynasty is the East Asian counterpart of and contemporary with Rome in its golden age.
		The Han ruling line was briefly interrupted by the usurpation of a famous reformer, Wang Mang, whose interlude on the throne from A.D. 9 to 23 in known as the Hsin dynasty.
	www.regenttour.com /china/history/han.asp (876 words)

	Han Emperor Wu-ti
		He was the sixth emperor of Han and only sixteen when he came to the throne.
		Throughout the Chin and Han period (221 BC-220 AD) China's most formidable foreign opponent was the Xiongnu, a Turkish-speaking nomadic tribe which, at its apex of power early in the second century BC, held sway over a territory that extended all the way from Eastern Mongolia to the Aral Sea.
		Wu-ti's initial attempt to trade the Celetial Horses with gold coins was rejected by the king of Fergana and the Han envoy sent for the negotiation was murdered and stripped.
	www.silk-road.com /artl/wuti.shtml (1513 words)

	BkReviews
		Though Emperor Qin had the honor of being the first to unify China among the warring powers into a central empire, after his death from illness, an ambitious courtesan conspired to falsify his edict to force a suicide on the crown prince thus conferring the throne on the younger son.
		As the successive Han emperors rolled on, at some point, the usurpation of imperial power by the traditional outside military commanders and court relatives (usually from the distuff side) was given yet another element, that of the eunuch class.
		China’s Northern Fleet was annihilated and she was forced to sign the infamous, MaGuan Treaty of 1895 with the concomitant ruinous reparation in white silvers, to name just one of the consequences.
	home.earthlink.net /~pintschang/html/bkreviews.html (3317 words)

	Liu Zhe (Wudi) - Western Han Ruler and Emperor Biographies - English
		Emperor Wu’s reign prolonged the prosperity of the Dynasty.
		China began breeding a superior breed of horses, and it began growing Alfalfa and grapes.
		China’s most renowned Confucian scholar, Dong Zhongshu, was outraged by the plight of the peasants and led the way in expressing concern about social decay.
	www.kongming.net /novel/han/liuzhe.php (1375 words)

	The Han Dynasty
		Emperor He repealed the national monopolization of salt and iron and encouraged the development of bronze metallurgy and the textile industry.
		Han Ling Di was caught in a clash between a group of court eunuchs known as the “Ten Regular Attendants” and gentry bureaucrat groups.
		Her son, Emperor Shao succeeded Han Ling Di, but he and his mother were assassinated by the corrupt Han general Dong Zhuo and his accomplish, Li Ru.
	www.geocities.com /dw_trotk/han.htm (1026 words)

	Decline of the Han Dynasty
		China's trade reached new heights in an atmosphere of rising prosperity, and education took on a new importance.
		China's Confucianist aristocracy, who favored law and order and good government, considered the eunuchs an uneducated lot and not long after twelve-year-old Emperor Ling came to the throne, a major clash occurred between the two groups triggered by the prophecy of a Daoist magician.
		Shu Han in the south, Wu in the west and Wei in the north.
	www.koreanhistoryproject.org /Ket/C02/E0203.htm (3554 words)

	Emperor Wen of Han China
		Emperor Wen of Han China, ch 漢文帝, py.
		Han Wen-ti, (202 BC - 157 BC) was an emperor of the Chinese Han Dynasty.
		After eliminating the powerful Lü clan, Emperor Wen was deliberately chosen as the emperor, since his mother, Consort Bo, had no powerful relatives.
	www.knowledgefun.com /book/e/em/emperor_wen_of_han_china.html (217 words)

	china
		Moreover, China's examination system was for the masses only from Song dynasty onwards, prior to that only Sui and Tang dynasty used it for recruiting civil officials on a very small scale around fifteen officials per year.
		Empress Wu Tse Tian was said to have come up with the concealment of names of candidates, so that their identity and social origins could not affect the issue.
		Han Wu-di then saw education as a way to strengthen his new upper class against the older aristocratic families, and he accepted Confucianism as the ideology in which the state officials should be trained.
	members.tripod.com /~leavis/china.htm (1679 words)

	2. The Han Dynasty \| All Empires (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		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.
	www.allempires.com /article/index.php?q=the_han_dynasty (1133 words)

	A Concise History of China, Chapter 3
		Forty years before Wu Di's reign, the Xiongnu had attacked the Yuezhi, a small tribe living in Gansu province, killed their chieftain and made a cup out of his skull; the survivors packed their bags and moved beyond the western horizon.
		Wu Di thought the Yuezhi would make a good buffer state between China and the Xiongnu if they could be persuaded to return, so in 138 B.C. he sent an embassy led by a noble named Zhang Qian, to find the Yuezhi and propose an alliance.
		Wu Di, like Shihuangdi, was a patron of the Daoist magicians, who promised to make him live forever.
	www.xenohistorian.faithweb.com /china/ch03.html (10540 words)

	Matt & Andrej Koymasky - Famous GLTB - Wu-di Xiao
		Emperor Wu, skilled in archery and warfare, and the founder of China's first universities, had several male lovers - Han Yan, Han Yue and Li Yannian.
		Han Yan was an illegitimate grandson of Han Tuidang, the Marquis of Conggao.
		As an eunuch, he entered the service of the emperor Wu, and as he knew how to compose new tunes, was charged by the emperor to set to music some lyrics.
	andrejkoymasky.com /liv/fam/biow3/wu4.html (1549 words)

	Liu Bang (Gaozu or Gaodi) - Western Han Ruler and Emperor Biographies - English
		Emperor Hu Hai was even of inferior quality than his late father.
		Liu Bang was given the title Prince of Han (Han Wang) and moved into the lands of Ba-Shu (Yizhou).
		Liu Bang plotted the assassination of Empress Lü and his oldest son but died at the age of sixty-one, when he suffered a relapse from his former injuries, the order for the assassination was therefore never sent out.
	www.kongming.net /novel/han/liubang.php (1725 words)

	Confucianism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		Debated during the Warring States Period and forbidden during the short founder Qin dynasty Confucianism was chosen by Han emperor Han Wu Di and used as a political system a kind of state religion.
		Taoism and Buddhism are two other systems of thought a major influence on China but during Song Dynasty Zhu Xi and other thinkers built a renewed integrating their mystical aspirations into a syncretic referred in the West as to Neo-Confucianism.
		After the short violent dynasty of Qin Liu Bang founded the Han dynasty and soon after the Emperor Han Wu Di decided that China was a confucianist and launched the examination system.
	www.freeglossary.com /Confucianism (4171 words)

	Teaching Chinese Archaeology, Part Four - NGA
		Imperial china begins with the founding of the Qin dynasty in 221 B.C. (Qin, pronounced "chin," is the derivation of the English word "China").
		The Han dynasty that followed was one of the most stable and prosperous periods in Chinese history.
		The First Emperor is also remembered for his fear of subversion, which led to the burning of books and harsh treatment of scholars.
	www.nga.gov /education/chinatp_pt4.htm (1199 words)

	ROTK Note (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		» Explainer -- Emperor Wu and Sima Qian -- Emperor Wu, aka Liu Che, (reigned BC 141-87) whose reign was longest among the Han emperors.
		Emperor Wu was perhaps the most influential Han emperor who concerned not only about expanding territory but also about developing trade with other countries (the Silk Road, for example).
		Subsequently, Wu Di's biography consisted of a few sentences which appear to have been appended on by later historians, while the chapter summary seems to be the only authentic one.
	www.threekingdoms.com /note.php?p=1195 (735 words)

	Xi Han Dynasty (206 B.C.-8 A.D.) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		Han Hui Di Han Lu Hou (the queen) took over the administration in 194 B.C.)and killed concubine Qi and her son prince Zhao.
		The tomb of Jing Di's son Liu Sheng was unearthed in Hebei in 1968.
		Han Zhao Di Huo Guang (?-68 B.C.) assigned to be in charge of the administration.
	www.yutopian.com /history/xihan.html (652 words)

	All Empires History Forum: Han Cavalry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		During the Han dynasty, emperor Han Wudi sent an ambassador to the Kushan kingdom in the far west to recruit horsemen to fight the Xiongnu.
		In one of the most victorious battles of Morbei that the Xiongnu king was killed, Emperor Han Wudi sent a cavalry force of 200,000 and an infantry force of 500,000 in two groups with one led by Fok Hu Bin and the other led by Wei Qing.
		Han made really good infantrymen and the entire infantry force was made up by Han ethics.
	www.allempires.com /forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1716&PN=1 (1456 words)

	Emperor Wudi of Han
		Emperor Wu, namely Liuche, was the sixth emperor of the Western Han Dynasty (206 BC - 24 AD).
		Emperor came to the throne at the age of sixteen.
		Emperor Wu's most important military campaigns were against the Xiongnu, an ancient tribe that lived in North China and posed a powerful threat to the Han Empire.
	www.travelchinaguide.com /intro/history/han/emperor_wu.htm (371 words)

	Chinese history:Western Han
		Chinese armies also invaded and annexed parts of northern Vietnam and northern Korea toward the end of the second century B.C. Han control of peripheral regions was generally insecure, however.
		The Han rulers, however, were unable to adjust to what centralization had wrought: a growing population, increasing wealth and resultant financial difficulties and rivalries, and ever-more complex political institutions.
		Riddled with the corruption characteristic of the dynastic cycle, by A.D. 220 the Han empire collapsed.
	www.chinavoc.com /history/xhan.htm (401 words)

	Royalty.nu - The History of China - Chinese Royalty
		Chronicle of the Chinese Emperors by Ann Paludan.
		Empress of China: Wu Ze Tian by Cheng-An Chiang, illustrated by Xu De Yuan.
		Emperor of China: Self-Portrait of K'Ang-Hsi by Jonathan D. Spence uses original documents to tell the life story of Manchu emperor K'ang-Hsi, who ruled China from 1661 to 1772.
	www.royalty.nu /Asia/China (1988 words)

	Emperor Qinshihuang
		Emperor Qin Shi Huang (259 BC - 210 BC) fascinates people when they talk about the Great Wall and the Terracotta Warriors and Horses - his two greatest achievements to China.
		As the first emperor of China, he indeed has a profound influence on Chinese history and culture.
		Emperor Qin Shi Huang, born as Ying Zheng in 259 BC, was the son of the king of the Qin State.
	www.travelchinaguide.com /attraction/shaanxi/xian/terra_cotta_army/qin_shihuang_1.htm (700 words)

	Imperial Eras
		Much of what came to constitute China Proper was unified for the first time in 221 B.C. In that year the western frontier state of Qin, the most aggressive of the Warring States, subjugated the last of its rival states.
		Revolts broke out as soon as the first Qin emperor died in 210 B.C. His dynasty was extinguished less than twenty years after its triumph.
		The collapse of the Han dynasty was followed by nearly four centuries of rule by warlords.
	www-chaos.umd.edu /history/imperial.html (968 words)

	Breakaway Games Presents Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		Huang Di is one of the legendary Chinese emperors.
		Guan Di was a famous general during the Three Kingdoms period who was captured and executed in 220 CE.
		He arrived in China circa 520 CE and met with Emperor Wu.
	emperor.breakawaygames.com /design_religion.html (1725 words)

	History
		Huang Di, or the Yellow Emperor, is referred to as the "Originator of the Chinese Culture", and all people of the Chinese race regard themselves as descendants of Yan Di and Huang Di.
		China's only woman emperor did it her way in a man's world.
		The power of her beauty caused the downfall of an emperor.
	journeyeast.tripod.com /history.html (334 words)

	Chinese History - Han Dynasty æ¼¢ religion (www.chinaknowledge.de)
		There were several cases of sorcery during the reign of Emperor Wudi æ¼¢æ¦å¸.
		TLV-Symbols (magic symbols with the shape of the letters T, L and V) upon round objects like mirrors should protect from danger and ascertain the rhythm of the universe with a sure position of the mirror's owner inside the world.
		Huang-Lao thought was a mixture of the thought in the regulating and healing force of the Yellow Emperor é»å¸, the ideal monarch of the past, and the philosophy of Laozi èå who taught that "the Way" (dao é“) is the single order of nature whose mind and intention underlie all aspects of the universe.
	www.chinaknowledge.de /History/Han/han-religion.html (309 words)

	SPCNET.TV - Han Wu Da Di (Starring Chen Bao Guo as Liu Che)
		HWDD is based on Sima Qian's "Shi Ji" and Ban Gu's "Han Shu", so this will definitely be the most historically accurate series thus far about Han Wu Di and his reign.
		Han jing di is a goner already, his young son, who i must say looks to be more capable than his old man, has suceeded him.
		moreover, when they switched actors from the teenage Han wu di to the adult one, they failed to use a buffer period or a phrase like 'a few years have passed', instead it seemed like his face changed dramatically overnight.
	www.spcnet.tv /forums/showthread.php?t=10534 (1816 words)

	Emperor of Han Dynasty (2002) - Mainland China Drama Reviews - spcnet.tv
		Da Han Tian Zi (Emperor of the Han Dynasty)
		This serial is about the early years of Han dynasty emperor Liu Che, more commonly known as Han Wu Di.
		And Huang XiaoMing was able to make the transition from acting as a young, immature boy to becoming one of the most famous emperors in China’s history.
	www.spcnet.tv /reviews/review.php?rID=182 (1026 words)

	About China - CSSA, LSU
		After a short civil war, a new dynasty, called Han (206 B.C.-A.D. emerged with its capital at Chang'an ().
		The paths of caravan traffic are often called the "silk route" () because the route was used to export Chinese silk to the Roman Empire.
		To ensure peace with non-Chinese local powers, the Han court developed a mutually beneficial "tributary system" ().
	www.lsu.edu /student_organizations/cssa/aboutchina/history/han.html (395 words)

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