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  Cygo Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Emperor Tang Xuanzong (唐玄宗) (685 - 762), born Li Longji (李隆基), was the sixth emperor of the Tang dynasty of China.
Xuanzong fled to Sichuan during the war, and Yang Guifei and Yang Kuozhong who attempted to flee with him were killed by the Imperial army for their perceived part in the Emperor's weakness and loss of control.
Xuanzong abdicated his position to Suzong, the heir apparent, and died in 762 shortly before the rebellion was finally quashed.
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 Emperor Xuanzong
Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty is most famous for the period of his life during the An Lushan Rebellion, which appears to be very similar to a soap opera.
Emperor Xuanzong was blinded by his love for a woman which ultimately caused him to lose his empire and sent China into a period fighting to regain its land.
Emperor Xuanzong and his relationship with the consort, Yang Guifei, will continue to be told as a story that is as an essential part of the An Lushan Rebellion.
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 China Encyclopedia Article @ Warmed.org   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
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.
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 YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> Xuanzong   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Emperor Xuanzong of Tang China (685–762; reign: 712–756)
Xuande Emperor of the Ming Dynasty (1398–1435; reign: 1425–1435)
Daoguang Emperor of the Qing Dynasty (1782–1850; reign: 1820–1850)
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 Emperor Xuanzong of Tang - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Emperor Tang Xuanzong (Chinese: 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, reigning from 712 to 756.
Xuanzong saw in Silla a valuable ally on its flank, particularly against the growing power of the state of Bohai (Balhae), which in 733 had actually launched a seaborne attack on Dengzhou in Shandong.
Xuanzong fled to Sichuan during the war, and Yang Guifei and Yang Guozhong, who attempted to flee with him, were killed by the Imperial army for their perceived part in the Emperor's weakness and loss of control.
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 The Sui, Tang and Song Dynasties
Xuanzong came to power at the age of 28 and was to remain in power forty-four years.
The last three Tang emperors (from 873 to 907) were the puppets of eunuchs, and to the Chinese people it seemed that the Tang dynasty had lost the mandate of heaven.
In 960, amid the chaos in China, troops of the commander of the palace guard at the new capital at Kaifeng, surrounded him and demanded that he become emperor.
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 Chinese History - Tang Dynasty 唐 event history (www.chinaknowledge.de)
The neighbors of the Tang empire were the Turks (Tujue 突厥), Uighurs (Huihe 回紇, later Huigu 回鶻), the Tibetian empire of Tubo 吐藩 (often read Tufan), the kingdom of Nanzhao 南詔, and the northeastern peoples of Qidan 契丹 (Khitan) and Mohe 靺鞨 (Malgal) as well as the three Korean kingdoms and Bohai 渤海 (Parhae).
Tang China established a protectorate of the pacified East (Andong duhufu 安東督護府) but was forced by Silla in 671 to withdraw to the Liaodong 遼東 area.
Third, China had lost her Western regions to the Tibetians and to the Uighurs that had advanced into these areas during the years of the rebellion.
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 Chinese history:The Tang Dynasty (618-907 AD)
A Recollection of the Splendor of the Tang Dynasty
Xuanzong's increasing preoccupation with the arts, Tantric Buddhism, Taoism, one of his consorts Yang Guifei and whatever else captured his fancy, meant that the affairs of the state were largely left to his administrators.
Although Tang forces regained control of the empire, it was the beginning of the end for the Tang.
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 Tang   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Li Longji, emperor Xuanzong (712-756) was the longest reigning ruler in Tang history.
The recurring theme of a weakened central government and the increasing independence of military governorates was again repeated and in the later stages of the dynasty, the last three emperors were puppets in the hands of eunuchs and military governors.
Tang figures took on a tremendous realizm as potters ability to master the details of both moulding and modelling was perfected.
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 China Institute Programs for Educators
The Tang dynasty rose to power after China had been divided for almost four centuries, from the fall of the Han dynasty to the reunification of China by the Sui (see Chronology of the Traditional Chinese Dynasties).
The Tang was an extremely cosmopolitan age, one in which China had numerous connections with the rest of the Eurasian world.
Tang culture probably reached its height with the reign of emperor Xuanzong (r.
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 Ancient Chinese Dynasties: Tang Dynasty: Reasons for Decline
While Emperor Xuanzong was still wallowing in his infatuation with Concubine Yang, the flames of war rose on the frontiers.
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.
During the late period of Emperor Xuanzong, the Eunuch Gao Lishi was favored by the emperor.
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 Ancient Chinese Dynasties: Tang Dynasty: Culture and Religion
The enlightened religious policy exercised by the Tang was welcomed by the many communities within the country and in turn this did much to help consolidate the rule of new dynasty.
The Tang Dynasty was the golden age of Chinese poetry.
Tang poets are held in high regard and among the most notable are Li Bai, Du Fu and Bai Juyi.
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 Tang Dynasty -- Political, Social, Cultural, Historical Analysis Of China   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
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'.
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 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.
Xuanzong managed to increase the number of families on the tax registers, gave more control to local military commanders, increased the number of horses by improving government stud farms, and repaired canals to facilitate grain transport from the south to northern armies.
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 france, polo, estafeta carga aerea, connect air, aircalin, loganair, sport, jetcraft aviation, handicap, iberworld   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
They are the descendants of people from the indian subcontinent, africa, madagascar, france, england, china plus a few other places.
The congress of vienna designated monaco as a protectorate of the kingdom of sardinia from 1815 until 1860 when the treaty of turin ceded to france the surrounding countship of nizza and savoy.
In the 1860s, the country again suffered a military occupation, this time by france, seeking to establish the habsburg archduke ferdinand maximilian of austria as emperor of mexico, with support from the roman catholic clergy and conservative elements of the upper class as well as some indigenous communities.
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 Tang dynasty - ikiW   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The Tang Dynasty (Chinese: 唐朝; pinyin: Tángcháo) (June 18, 618–June 4, 907) followed the Sui Dynasty and preceded the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period in China.
The dynasty was interrupted by the Second Zhou Dynasty (October 16, 690 – March 3, 705) when Empress Wu Zetian seized the throne.
The Tang Dynasty, with its capital at Chang'an (present-day Xi'an), the most populous city in the world at the time, is regarded by historians as a high point in Chinese civilization — equal to or surpassing that of the Han Dynasty.
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 China, 500-1000 A.D. | Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Merchants and visitors from West, South, Southeast, and East Asia arrive frequently, and Tang China functions as the epicenter of an international culture that is also reflected in the visual arts of Korea and Japan.
The reign of Emperor Xuanzong is generally regarded as a classic period of Chinese culture characterized by good government and the flourishing of poetry, music, and calligraphy.
China is controlled by successive short-lived kingdoms in the north and overlapping rulers in the south after the dissolution of the Tang empire.
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 Tang Dynasty (618–906 A.D.) | Special Topics Page | Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The political and governmental institutions established during this brief period lay the foundation for the growth and prosperity of the succeeding Tang dynasty.
Marked by strong and benevolent rule, successful diplomatic relationships, economic expansion, and a cultural efflorescence of cosmopolitan style, Tang China emerged as one of the greatest empires in the medieval world.
The eighth century heralded the second important epoch in Tang history, achieved largely during the reign of Emperor Xuanzong (r.
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 artists, narzan, decorative arts, light art, intervention art, depliage, pottery, graffiti, drama, videogames   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
This was stated to be the end for the casual NYC subway graffiti writers, and the years to follow would be populated by only what some consider the most "die hard" writers.
In general, it dates back to the Tang Dynasty with Emperor Emperor Xuanzong of Tang China (712-755), who founded the " Pear Garden" (梨園), the first known opera troupe in China.
Following the May Fourth Movement of 1919, a number of Western plays were staged in China, and Chinese playwrights began to imitate this form.
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 Portraits of Emperors
Kangxi was the 4-th emperor of the Qing Dynasty.
The portrait shows the young emperor Kangxi, sitting at his writing table and holding a thick writing brush.
On the marble top of the table there are paper, ink, brush and inkstone, the "Four Treasures of the Study"; they are the tools of the painter and calligrapher.
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 Joss House: Taoist Temples of California
Zhong Kui's popularity in folklore can be traced to the reign of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang China (712 to 756).
According to Song Dynasty sources, once the Emperor Xuanzong was gravely ill. He had a dream in which he saw two ghosts.
The smaller of the ghosts stole a purse from imperial consort Yang Guifei and a flute belonging to the emperor.
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 sculpture, narzan, architecture, drama, self-taught, found art, decorative arts, concept art, patio design, minimal art   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Some examples of canons are the works of Vitruvius, the Kaogongji of ancient China and Vaastu Shastra in ancient India.
Islamic architecture interior design has a long and complex history beginning in the seventh century Common Era.
Studying piano, drama dvd, clarinet, voice and dance at the eastman school of music gave miss kelly the foundation for the impact she would later make on the jazz world.
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 Feng Shui Advice Chung Kwei @ Smiling Bamboo Feng Shui Resource   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The bigger ghost, wearing the hat of an official, captured the smaller ghost, tore out his eye and ate it.
When the emperor awoke, he had recovered from his illness.
The smaller of the ghosts stole a purse from imperial consort Yang Guifei and...
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