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  Emperor Xuanzong of Tang China - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Emperor Tang Xuanzong (唐玄宗) (September 8, 685 - May 3, 762), born Li Longji (李隆基), was the sixth emperor of the Tang dynasty of China reigining from 712 to 756.
Known also as Tang Minghuang, the early half of his reign (712-730's) saw Tang China reach the height of her powers, in a period known popularly as the Kaiyuan era (開元之治).
Xuanzong abdicated his position to Suzong, the heir apparent in 756, and died in 762 shortly before the rebellion was finally quashed.
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 Emperor Xuanzong of Tang China - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Emperor Tang Xuanzong (唐玄宗) (685 - 762), born Li Longji (李隆基), was the sixth emperor of the Tang dynasty of China.
Known also as Tang Minghuang, the early half of his reign (712-756) saw Tang China reach the height of her powers, in a period known popularly as the Kaiyuan era (開元之治).
Xuanzong abdicated his position to Suzong, the heir apparent, and died in 762 shortly before the rebellion was finally quashed.
www.encyclopedia-online.info /Xuanzong   (379 words)

  
 Emperor Suzong of Tang China - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Suzong ascended the throne after his father abdicated while fleeing to Sichuan during the An Lushan rebellion in 756.
Much of Suzong's reign was spent in charged of quelling the An Lushan rebellion that was ultimately put down in 763.
Suzong appointed a eunuch Li Fuguo(李輔國) as a top officer of the government and gave Li control of the military and the financial department.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Emperor_Suzong_of_Tang_China   (159 words)

  
 Chinese history:Tang Dynasty-Women of the Tang Dynasty
A Recollection of the Splendor of the Tang Dynasty
From the reign of Emperor Gaozong to that of Emperor Suzong during the early and middle Tang Dynasty, there were altogether 98 princesses, of which 61 married, among whom 24 remarried, and four married three times.
Having worked as Emperor Taizong's secretary for 12 years, Wu Zetian was very familiar with the former emperor's main priorities in his management of state affairs, many of which she followed, for example, his stress on agriculture, reducing tax and corvee, practicing a peaceful foreign policy, and widely soliciting advice and suggestions.
www.chinavoc.com /history/tang/women.htm   (2625 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Emperor Suzong of Tang China   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Li Fuguo李輔國(704-762) was a eunuch official during the reign of Emperor Suzong of Tang Dynasty.
762 deaths Emperor Tang Xuanzong (唐玄宗) (685 - 762), born Li Longji (李隆基), was the sixth emperor of the Tang dynasty of China reigining from 712 to 756.
The Tang Dynasty (唐朝 Hanyu Pinyin táng cháo; 618-907) followed the Sui Dynasty and preceded the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period in China.
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Tang emperor conferred Li Keyong the posts of jiedu for Yanmen, zhen'er (i.e., quelling) for Shen-ce (devine tactics) Tianning-jun Garrison, and guancha-shi (i.e., observer general) for Xin-Dai areas.
Posterior Tang leader had once gone into exile in another nomadic group of people called Dadan (to be mixed up with Tartar later) till he was recalled by Tang emperor for quelling the Huang Chao rebellion.
Northern China was inevitably mingled with nomads from Manchuria and Mongolia.
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 Chinese History - Tang Dynasty event history (www.chinaknowledge.org)
While the financial reform were not deep enough to save the state treasury from permanent leaking, the changes whithin the military system imposed a financial burden on the finances and caused the emergence of quasi-independent regional governors, as the military commissioners had the full military and civil authority, including finances and taxation of their region.
Tang China established a protectorate of the pacified East (Andong duhufu) but was forced by Silla in 671 to withdraw to the Liaodong area.
To the other local military commanders, the Tang emperors had to pay a high price for their loyalty: they were allowed to establish their own troops, to collect taxes and to install their own sons as hereditary successors in their military position.
www.chinaknowledge.de /History/Tang/tang-event.html   (4445 words)

  
 Chinese Porcelain History
The territory during Tang, acquired through the military exploits of its early rulers, was greater than that of the Han.
The Tang dynasty (A.D. 618-907), with its capital at Chang'an (Xi'an), is regarded by historians as a high point in Chinese civilization - equal, or even superior, to the Han period.
Emperor Taizong (627-649), the second emperor of the Tang Dynasty attended by court ladies.
www.gotheborg.com /chronology/tang.shtml   (514 words)

  
 Ancient Chinese Dynasties: Tang Dynasty: Reasons for Decline   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The Tang emperors were obliged to pay a high price for their loyalty: The Jie Du Shi were allowed to establish their own troops, to collect taxes.
When the Emperor Suzong was in power, Li Fuguo, one of the eunuchs was given an important position as advisor of the emperor.
Emperor Xizong gathered the remaining Tang troops and by combined them with Fanzhen army, fought against the rebels, forcing them to withdraw from Chang'an.
www.muztagh.com /china-history/tang/reason-decline.htm   (1400 words)

  
 The Tang Dynasty   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
By the eighth century, during the later part of Emperor Xuanzong's reign, the Tang Empire was in decline.
While Emperor Xuanzong was still wallowing in his infatuation with Concubine Yang, the flames of war rose on the frontiers.
During the late period of Emperor Xuanzong, the Eunuch Gao Lishi was favored by the emperor.
www.warriortours.com /intro/history/tang/page6.htm   (1398 words)

  
 Guangzhou
Guangzhou (Traditional Chinese: 廣州, Simplified Chinese: 广州, pinyin: Guǎngzhōu, Wade-Giles: Kuang-chou) (23n06, 113e16 AWST) is the capital of the Guangdong Province in southern China.
Guangzhou was one of the five Chinese treaty ports opened by the Treaty of Nanjing (signed in 1842) at the end of the First Opium War between United Kingdom and China.
The Pearl River Delta is one of mainland China's leading economic regions and a massive manufacturing centre.
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 China History - Tan'g Dynasty   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Tang Tricolor Porcelain, decorated with yellow, green, white, brown and blue, became famous for the beauty of its designs and the pieces were acknowledged as fine works of art.
Early in 634, Songtsan Gambo twice dispatched envoys to the Tang court in Chang'an seeking the hand of one of the emperor's daughters in marriage.
Emperor Taizong saw the benefit of such an alliance and Princess Wencheng was betrothed to the Tubo Zanpu.
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 Encyclopedia: Li Fuguo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
He support Suzong as emperor to replace Emperor Xuanzong, since then eunuchs had the power of appointed or dismissed an emperor (until 981).
As Suzong thought he had distincctive merits, Suzong appointed him as a high rank official in the Military Department (元帥府司馬).
After Emperor Daizong sworned as the Emperor of Tang, he called Daizong to stay in the palace and he himself would do the administration.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Li-Fuguo   (431 words)

  
 Ethics of China 7 BC To 1279 by Sanderson Beck
As the Sui empire was disintegrating, Yang Di fled to southern China, where he was assassinated in his bath by a descendant of the Yuwen family and the son of his general Yuwen Shu in 618.
Tang armies led by the Emperor's sons, Li Shimin in the south and eastern plain and crown prince Jiancheng in the northwest, offered amnesty and put down most of the resistance by 624.
Bei was drawn to Chinese culture and in 934 urged the Khitans to invade northern China.
www.san.beck.org /AB3-China.html   (20851 words)

  
 The Church of the East
The story of the mission of the Church of the East into China and its adaptation into an indigenous Church is a one of attachment of a faith to a culture and its authorities.
China was tolerant and syncretistic, and yet nationalistic in knowing the differerence between home grown and foreign imported religions.
Emperor Suzong invited monks of the four monasteries to plan charitable activities with him and a priest was invited to write a plaque, written to say the True Lord of the Primordial Void took on human form whose compassion was limitless banishing the dark and we are witnesses.
www.change.freeuk.com /learning/relthink/jesussutras.html   (7975 words)

  
 An Lushan Rebellion - Famous Ancient Chinese People - Chinese
The Anshi Rebellion (zh-cpc=安史之亂p=an1 shi3 zhi1 luan4) occurred in China, during the Tang Dynasty, from 756 to 763.
Emperor Suzong of Tang ChinaEmperor Suzong, (3rd or 4th) son of Xuanzong, was proclaimed emperor by the accompanying army and eunuchs while another group of local officials and Confucian literati proclaimed another prince at Jinling (today Nanjing).
The rebellion was suppressed during the reign of Emperor Daizong of Tang ChinaDaizong by generals Guo Ziyi and Li Guangbi (李光弼).
www.famouschinese.com /virtual/An_Lushan_Rebellion   (307 words)

  
 Guangzhou LANGUAGE SCHOOL EXPLORER
Guangzhou is the capital of Guangdong Province in southern China.
In 1760, the Qianlong Emperor restricted foreign traders to a district in Guangzhou under the Canton System.
Guangzhou was one of the five Chinese treaty ports opened by the Treaty of Nanking (signed in 1842) at the end of the First Opium War between United Kingdom and China.
language.school-explorer.com /info/Guangzhou   (851 words)

  
 Emperor Xuanzong of Tang China - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Emperor Xuanzong of Tang China - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Emperor Tang Xuanzong (唐玄宗) (685 - 762), born Li Longji (李隆基), was the sixth emperor of the Tang dynasty of China reigining from 712 to 756.
In 710 Xuanzong conspired with his aunt Princess Taiping (daughter of Empress Wu Zetian) to put an end to Empress Wei's attempted usurpation of power.
www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Emperor_Xuanzong   (519 words)

  
 Du Fu - Chinese Literature - Chinese Art
Like many other Chinese poets, he came from a noble family (they claimed descent from the emperor Yao) which had fallen into relative poverty (although Hung estimates that his family income was still eleven times that of an averagely comfortable family).
In 756 Emperor Xuanzong of Tang ChinaEmperor Xuanzong was forced to flee the capital and abdicate.
Beyond China, Du Fu was a major influence on Japanese poetry, and in particular that of Matsuo Basho.
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 Xiangqi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
It has commonly been assumed to have originated from the 6th century Indian game of chaturanga or a close relative thereof, a popular theory which most recently has undergone some revisions.
During the reign of Suzong of the Tang Dynasty, Prime Minister Niu Sengru wrote a fake story about chess.
Legend has it that an emperor executed two players for "killing" or "capturing" the emperor piece.
hallencyclopedia.com /Xiangqi   (2472 words)

  
 Siu Kam Wah
The successive reigns of Emperor Xuanzong 玄宗 (since his late reign), Emperor Suzong 肅宗 and Emperor Daizong 代宗 of the Tang were also faced with the political disorders of the two dao due to the outbreak of the An Lushan Rebellion.
From the suppression of the Rebellion to the end of the Tang, the rebels who had surrendered were monopolizing the positions of military governors in the provinces arbitrarily through generations, seriously threatening the stability of the central government.
Since the late reign of Emperor Gaozong 高宗 to the reign of Empress Wu 武周, Mt Song 嵩 near the capital of Luoyang became a holy place for the imperial family to conduct sacrificial ceremonies.
www.cuhk.edu.hk /ics/journal/summaries/12Siu%20Kam%20Wah.htm   (758 words)

  
 UCA Website   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
During this period the Uygurs revolted 42 times against the Manchu rule with the purpose of regaining their independence.21,In the last revolt of 1863, the Uygurs were successful in expelling the Manchus from their motherland, and founded an independent kingdom in 1864.
At that time, the army of Tang China was defeated by Muslim Abbasids at the Battle of Talas in 751, and the Tang began to withdraw from Central Asia.
At that time, China fell into a civil war, before the Uyghurs could intervene, the rebellions were put down but the Uyghurs became very influential in Tang China.
www.uyghurcanadian.org /history.html   (2852 words)

  
 Li Fuguo - tScholars.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
As Suzong thought he had distinctive merits, Suzong appointed him as a high rank official in the Military Department (元帥府司馬).
In 762, he and another eunuch official, Qing Yuanzheng (程元振) murdered the wife of Suzong, Empress Zhang.
After Emperor Daizong ascended the throne in 762 AD, Li tried to held on to power and called on Daizong to stay in the palace while he himself would attend to the administration.
www.tscholars.com /encyclopedia/Li_Fuguo   (277 words)

  
 phorum - Our World Forum at Asiawind - Re: THE EMERGING GEOPOLITICAL LANDSCAPE OF EURASIA
In A.D. 749-750 the Abbassids seized control of the Caliphate from the Ummayads who had enjoyed a traditionally warm relationship with Tang China, the capital was transferred to Baghdad leading to increased Abbassid expansionism eastwards and westwards.
Did this not spell a permanent end to Chinese dominance in Central Asia where the Silk Road passed through the lush regions of Sogdia and Ferghana, moroever Arab gains in the region were reversed by their defeat at the hands of the Khazars in Azerbaijan.
In fact the rebellion was suppressed with the help of 40.000 Arab soldiers sent to Chang'an by the Abbassid Caliph who by then was already on good terms with Emperor Suzong, both of whom saw a common enemy in Lady Yang Guifei's designs to have her family usurp the dragon throne.
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 China Travel/Tour Resource
Lying at the foot of Mt. Fenghuang (Phoenix) west of Qianshan County, Sanzu Temple was first built during the reign of Emperor Wudi of the Southern Dynasties (420-589).
In 758, Emperor Suzong of the Tang Dynasty renamed the temple.
It consists of the Thousand-Buddha Hall, and the Mahavira Hall, and enshrines a giant white marble statue of Sakyamuni, the largest of its kind in east China.
www.2002china.net /china_columns/provinces/anhui/ahu_sanz.shtml   (181 words)

  
 Temple of Flourishing Teaching: Xian Tourist Attractions
Xuanzang asked the young man to be his disciple, which got the support of Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty (618--907).
Emperor Suzong of the Tang Dynasty wrote for the temple, Xing Jiao (Flourishing Teaching) on the stupa which means that Buddhism would flourish by inheriting Xuanzang's achievement.
From the Tang Dynasty, Temple of Flourishing Teaching became a place of pilgrimage and a tourist attraction.
www.travelchinaguide.com /attraction/shaanxi/xian/teaching_temple.htm   (542 words)

  
 ipedia.com: Emperor Xuanzong of Tang China Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Emperor Tang Xuanzong, born Li Longji, was the sixth emperor of the Tang dynasty of China.
In 710 Xuanzong conspired with his aunt Princess Taiping to put an end to Empress Wei's attempted usurpation...
Emperor Xuanzong of Tang China Article - ipedia.com
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 Famous Historical Figures   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Du Fu, born in Gongyi, Zhengzhou, was a famous poet in the Tang Dynasty who ever styled himself ¡°Zi Mei¡±.
Still cherishing a great political ideal, he lived in Chang'an (capital of the Tang Dynasty) for ten years, but had no way to get a position in the royal government because of the political corruption.
Du Fu returned to Chang'an with the emperor after the rebellion was put down.
www.zhengzhou.org.cn /english/Culture/figure/figure08.htm   (271 words)

  
 Ancient Chinese Dynasties: Tang Dynasty: Reasons for Decline
Reasons for decline of the Tang Dynasty of ancient China.
History of China : Tang Dynasty : Reasons for Decline
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