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	Xuanzong - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Emperor Xuanzong II of Tang China (810–859; reign: 846–859)
		Xuande Emperor of the Ming Dynasty (1398–1435; reign: 1425–1435)
		Daoguang Emperor of the Qing Dynasty (1782–1850; reign: 1820–1850)
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Xuanzong (108 words)

	China Encyclopedia Article @ Warmed.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		China is also the source of many great technical inventions developed throughout world history, including the four great inventions of ancient China: Paper, the compass, gunpowder, and printing.
		China is composed of a vast variety of highly different landscapes, with mostly plateaus and mountains in the west, and lower lands on the east.
		In essence, the history of 20th century China is one of experimentation with new systems of social, political, and economic organization that would allow for the reintegration of the nation in the wake of dynastic collapse.
	www.warmed.org /encyclopedia/China (5847 words)

	CHINA
		Emperors turned to palace eunuchs (castrated men who served as palace servants) for help in ousting the maternal relatives, only to find that the eunuchs were just as difficult to control.
		The rebellion of An Lushan was devastating to the Tang.
		In 845 the Tang emperor began a full-scale persecution of the Buddhist establishment.
	www.webear.com /chinaengl.html (18522 words)

	China (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		It is essentially a corridor running from the upper Yellow River in the east, along the verge between the Tibetan plateau on the one hand and the Gobi desert on the other, to the edge of the Xinjiang wastes in the west.
		The northeastern portion of China, comprising the watershed of the Amur River.
		It formed with the encouragement of China, which needed a buffer zone between itself and the then-aggressive Tibetans, but Nan Chao soon became expansionist in it's own right, and proved to be a considerable threat to China at times.
	www.hostkingdom.net /china.html (2189 words)

	History of China (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Confucius also codified the status of the ruler in Chinese political thought; the Emperor was the Son of Heaven (while Heaven in a Western context is a place, Heaven in the Chinese context is a divine/natural force) and had the Mandate of Heaven to rule.
		It was introduced into China around the middle of the first century AD (probably about the same time that the early Christians were writing the Gospels), but really didn't catch on until the fall of the Han dynasty.
		The northern half of China was conquered by barbarians, forcing the dynasty to abandon a northern capital in the early 1100's.
	www.yang.freehosting123.com /china.html (6447 words)

	Tang Dynasty -- Political, Social, Cultural, Historical Analysis Of China
		Tang army general Su Dingfang was famous for fighting on both the front in Oxus valley and on Korean Peninsula.
		Emperor Taizong, rebutting the advice of his minister Wei Zheng (who cited the Hunnic ravaging of China during the late Jinn Dynasty as a result of their dwelling south of the Yellow River, Hetao area), relocated over 100,000 eastern Turks to the border areas, all the way from Shaanxi-Shanxi to today's Beijing city.
		Tang's civil minister Fei Xingjian would be responsible for quelling the Eastern Turkic rebellion in AD 680 and in AD 681 via strategies like 'hiding soldiers inside the grain carts' and 'offering 10,000 liang (a unit of weight similar to ounce) gold for the head of the khan'.
	www.republicanchina.org /tang.html (6825 words)

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		Hongli (Qianling Emperor): 18th cen., the 4th Qing Emperor, ruler of China when it was perhaps at its wealthiest and most stable up to the changes of the 19th cen.
		Xuanzong: 7th-8th cen., last Tang Emperor, the Minghuang Emperor, famous for his court's decadence and cultural splendor.
		English missionary to China who stressed reaching inland, away from the ports of China, and who demanded that missionaries dress as Chinese teachers, not Western missionaries.
	home.nwciowa.edu /firth/chinabio.htm (874 words)

	Ming Dynasty -- Political, Social, Cultural, Historical Analysis Of China
		Emperor decreed that protocol official examine the sincerity and authenticity of the delegation, with an order to ban exchange and trade between two countries should there be lack of such sincerity and authenticity.
		Protocol suggested to emperor that new tallies should not be issued till old tallies were cancelled and that Xuande-era regulation as to 3 boats and ten year interval should be enforced.
		Emperor Kangxi, however, prohibited Catholics by imprisoning Charles Thomas Maillard de Tournon who arrived in China in AD 1705 with a pope order as to exclusion of Heaven, ancestors and Confucius among Christian converts.
	www.republicanchina.org /ming.html (13412 words)

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		The first is the Empress Wu, the only woman ever to actually bear the title 'Emperor' (or, in her case, Empress).
		The second was the An Lushan Rebellion, which marked the beginning of the end for the Tang.
		The Qing weren't the worst rulers; under them the arts flowered (China's greatest novel, a work known variously as The Dream of the Red Chamber, A Dream of Red Mansions, and The Story of the Stone, was written during the Qing) and culture bloomed.
	www.foronechina.com /eng/HistoryDetail_1.htm (5092 words)

	The History of China (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		A full range of Western impressions of early China have evolved since Marco Polo first introduced it to the West in the fourteenth century.
		Western impressions of China, however, have not always been realistic from a Chinese perspective.
		The first half of class will be devoted to reviewing for the second exam and discussion of the Judge Dee novels in the context of our review of the Tang period, arguably the most pivotal period in the history of early modern China.
	www.worldclass.net /China/chinasyl.htm (805 words)

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