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	Emperor Wu of Han Summary
		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 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.
		Emperor Wu dispatching Zhang Qian to Central Asia from 138 to 126 BCE, Mogao Caves mural, 618-712 CE.
	www.bookrags.com /Emperor_Wu_of_Han (6449 words)

	Emperor Ling of Han - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Han Ling-ti, (156-189) was an emperor of the Chinese Han Dynasty.
		When Emperor Huan died in 168 without a son to be heir, his wife Empress Dou Miao became empress dowager and regent, and she examined the rolls of the imperial clan to consider the next emperor.
		Because Emperor Ling had, earlier in his life, frequently lost sons in childhood, he later believed that his sons needed to be raised outside the palace by foster parents.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Emperor_Ling_of_Han_China (2051 words)

	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.
	www.allempires.com /article/index.php?q=the_han_dynasty (1130 words)

	China to the Fall of the Han Dynasty
		Their explorations, and China's success against the Xiongnu, brought an exchange of envoys between China and states to the west, and it opened for the Chinese the 4000-mile trade route that would become known as the Silk Road.
		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 (10444 words)

	Women in power Year 1-500
		Emperor Titus of Rome, 13 years her junior became infatuated with her, and wanted to marry her, which scandalized the court and forced him to abandon her.
		While her emperor husband, Septimius Severus, was fighting rivals, pursuing rebels, and subduing revolts in the far corners of the empire, she was left to administer the vast Roman Empire.
		As the emperor's mother, with the title Iulia Soaemias Augusta, she played a great role in government and administration and was in fact the de facto ruler of Rome, since her son was concerned mainly with religious matters.
	www.guide2womenleaders.com /womeninpower/Womeninpower01.htm (6632 words)

	Royalty.nu - The History of China - Chinese Royalty
		Emperor Huizong and Late Northern Song China: The Politics of Culture and the Culture of Politics edited by Patricia Buckley Ebrey and Maggie Bickford.
		A commoner's presentation to the emperor of a lucky omen from his garden and several retellings of the incident provide the background for an introduction to Ming society, culture, and politics, including discussions of the founding of the Ming dynasty, the character of the first emperor, and the role of omens in court politics.
		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/index.html (2129 words)

	Chinese Dynasties - Eastern Han Dynasty
		Emperor Guangwu, Liuxiu, concluded the upheaval of the former Han Dynasty and reunified the country.
		Emperor He repealed the national monopolization of salt and iron and encouraged the development of bronze metallurgy and the textile industry.
		Emperor Huan died in 168 and quickly the 12-year-old Emperor Ling was selected out by the empress to inherit the kingship.
	www.travelchinaguide.com /intro/history/han/eastern.htm (1136 words)

	Millennial Fair – the Rise and Fall of the Emperial Han by Jonathan Wu
		Emperor Ling assigned He Jin, the brother of his wife Empress He, as the Commander–in–Chief in charge of the Imperial Forces.
		After Emperor Ling died in 189 A.D., his wife Empress He took control of the court, and placed her son Liu Bian at the throne as Emperor Shao.
		In retrospect, the Han Dynasty was a turbulent time for China, filled with both prosperity and poverty, brilliance in rule and decay of rule.
	www.millennial-fair.com /literature/han1.html (2082 words)

	South China in the Han Period, Rafe de Crespigny Publications, Faculty of Asian Studies, ANU
		Moreover, the period of the Han dynasty and the short-lived Qin which preceded it, from the third century BC to the third century AD, is a part of the iron age, not the bronze age, of China.
		This émigré Chinese state maintained its independence for almost a hundred years until the region was again conquered by the armies of Emperor Wu of Han in 112 BC, an achievement followed by acquisitions in the southwest of present-day Yunnan, notably the Tian kingdom in the region of the Tian Lake.
		Indeed, from the fourth century to the seventh, as the north of China was all but overwhelmed by the political and military power of the steppe, it was the southern dynasties which played the major role in maintaining Han tradition in east Asia.
	www.anu.edu.au /asianstudies/decrespigny/southchina_han.html (2753 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).
		When news spread that the Emperor was dead, Liu Bang used it as excuse to ally with the Warlords against Xiang Yu.
	www.kongming.net /novel/han/liubang.php (1725 words)

	Han Dynasty -- Political, Social, Cultural, Historical Analysis Of China
		Han Dynasty's notable deeds would be the restoration of Confucianism as the creed for ruling the nation.
		Han Dynasty possessed the typical characteristics as far as the pattern of power corruption was concerned.
		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.republicanchina.org /han.html (10229 words)

	Ding Yuan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Romance of the Three Kingdoms, a 14th century historical novel by Luo Guanzhong, was a romanticization of the events that occurred before and during the Three Kingdoms era.
		In Chapter 3, Ding Yuan was said to be regarded as a rival by Dong Zhuo as he opposed the latter's plan to depose the young emperor in favor of the Prince of Chenliu (who was later enthroned as Emperor Xian).
		However, Dong Zhuo refrained from killing Ding Yuan on the spot as the mighty warrior Lü Bu, who in the novel was the foster son of Ding Yuan, was standing closely by.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ding_Yuan (547 words)

	Chinese History - Han Dynasty æ¼¢ government, administration and law (www.chinaknowledge.de)
		The Han Dynasty creators were the first politicians in Chinese history that developed a systematcal training and education for the administrational officialdom.
		Law: Many parts of Han law were likewise inherited from the Qin Dynasty, and many cruel punishments like physical tortures, mutilations and tatooed stigmatizing were inly abolished in the late 190es and 180es BCE.
		The law codex of the Han Dynasty and subsequently of much of the imperial period of China constisted of two parts: penal law (lÃ¼ å¾) whose main parts stood in the tradition of the legalist Qin state, and civil law (ling ä»¤).
	www.chinaknowledge.de /History/Han/han-admin.html (715 words)

	The Han Dynasty -- 206 BC - 220 AD -- Bibliography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The establishment of the Han empire and imperial China.
		Crisis and conflict in Han China: fourteen B. to A. nine.
		Emperor Huan and Emperor Ling: being the chronicle of Later Han for the years 157 to 189 AD as recorded in chapters 54 to 59 of the Zizhi tongjian of Sima Guang.
	hua.umf.maine.edu /China/han.html (1222 words)

	Liu Fuling (Zhaodi) - Western Han Ruler and Emperor Biographies - English
		They argued that their economic policies helped maintain China’s defences against the continued hostility of the Xiong Nu, and that they were protecting the people against exploitation of traders.
		The Confucianists argued that trade was not a proper activity of government, that government should not compete with private tradesmen, and they complained that the imported goods mentioned by the Legalists found their way only to the houses of the rich.
		Zhao-di’s heir was Emperor for only twenty-seven days, because Huo Guang replaced him with someone he thought he could control: Xuan-di.
	www.kongming.net /novel/han/liufuling.php (387 words)

	He Jin - TvWiki, the free encyclopedia
		During the reign of Emperor Ling his younger half-sister entered the palace and soon became one of the emperor's favourites.
		When Emperor Ling died early in 189, the stage was set for a showdown between He Jin and the eunuch faction.
		As soon as he held supremacy over the capital, Dong Zhuo deposed the emperor in favor of the Prince of Chenliu, who came to be known as Emperor Xian.
	www.tvwiki.tv /wiki/He_Jin (746 words)

	Zhang_Heng (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The Eastern Han was established in 25 AD after the brief 15 year reign of Wang Mang's Hsin dynasty had replaced the Western Han dynasty.
		This was the period during which Ho-ti was the emperor and the court began to be influenced by family members seeking to extend their own power.
		If China began to suffer due to ambitious people seeking to further their own influence, this was certainly not the case for Zhang.
	zyx.org /Zhang_Heng.html (1418 words)

	Staples High School--Research--Social Studies--Chinese Dynasty Study
		In 140 BC the most illustrious of the dynasty's emperors, Han Wudi, began a reign of over five decades that saw great territorial expansion and a burst of economic and cultural activity.
		Han rule was interrupted when an imperial minister, Wang Mang, seized the throne and established the Xin (Hsin) dynasty.
		Han dealings with barbarian neighbors, as well as subsequent Chinese relations with these peoples, were conducted within the tribute system.
	www.stapleshigh.net /research/china_dynasties/han.html (816 words)

	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.
	www.san.beck.org /AB3-China.html (20851 words)

	Chinese History - Qin Dynasty ç§¦ government and administration (www.chinaknowledge.de)
		The commanderies were divided in counties (xian ç¸£), administered by a magistrate (ling ä»¤).
		The First Emperor moved thousands of families to his capital, build himself the great imperial Ebang-Palace (not: Afang!) é¿æ¿å®® and let himself be buried in a gigantic tomb with a terracotta army to protect him.
		During his reign, the emperor spent much time to inspect the empire (xunxing å·¡è¡) and climbed Mount Taishan æ³°å±± to perform the old Fengshan å°ç¦ª sacrifice to Heaven and Earth.
	www.chinaknowledge.de /History/Han/qin-admin.html (250 words)

	Yuan Shao - Famous Ancient Chinese People - Chinese
		After the death of the Emperor, Yuan Shao was a chief ally of He Jin, who assumed leadership of the regular bureaucracy against the eunuch faction.
		Dong Zhuo had the emperor taken to Chang'an and a few months later, he burned Luoyang to the ground and himself withdrew to the west.
		In 196 his prominent in north China was recognized by Emperor Xian, who granted the position of General-in-chief and the title of Marquis of Ye 鄴侯.
	www.famouschinese.com /virtual/Yuan_Shao (1414 words)

	Indian, Chinese, & Japanese Emperors
		India and China are the sources of the greatest civilizations in Eastern and Southern Asia.
		The convention also makes it possible that Emperors who do not survive beyond their initial calendar year may not even be counted, which is the case, creating some confusion, with a couple of the Mongols.
		The Later Han is often called the "Eastern" Han because the capital was moved down the Huang He valley, back to where the capital of the Chou had been.
	www.friesian.com /sangoku.htm (12361 words)

	The Homosexual Tradition in China
		The names of the emperors, with their acknowledge favorites were recorded in the official histories of the period by Sima Qian and Ban Gu.
		The commission of this detestable and unnatural act is attended with so little sense of shame, or feelings of delicacy that many of the first officers of the state seemed to make no hesitation in publicly avowing it.
		Each of these officers is constantly attended by his pipe-bearer, who is generally a handsome boy, from fourteen to eighteen yaers of age, and is always well dressed.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/pwh/china-gaytexts.html (1342 words)

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