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  Han Dynasty
The western-eastern Han convention is used nowadays to avoid confusion with the Later Han Dynasty[?] of the Period of the Five Dynasties and the Ten Kingdoms though the earlier nomenclature was used in traditional historical texts like Si-ma Guang's Zi Zhi Tung Jian[?].
The beginning of the Han Dynasty can be dated either from 206 BC when the Qin dynasty crumbled or 202 BC when Liu Bang killed Xiang Yu, the leader of a competing rebellion that sought to re-instate the Zhou dynasty aristocracies.
Emperor Wu decided that Taoism is no longer suitable for China, and officially declared China to be a Confucian state; however, alike the emperors before him, he combined Legalist methods with the Confucian ideal.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ea/East_Han.html   (1155 words)

  
 Emperor Cheng of Han - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Emperor Cheng of Han (51 BC–7 BC) was an emperor of the Chinese Han Dynasty ruling from 33 BC until 7 BC.
Emperor Cheng was born circa 51 BC to then-Crown Prince Liu Shi (later Emperor Yuan) and one of his consorts, Consort Wang (later more commonly known as Grand Empress Dowager Wang).
Emperor Yuan was a relatively non-womanizing emperor, but he did have two favorite concubines in addition to Empress Wang -- Consort Fu and Consort Feng Yuan, each of whom bore him one son.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Emperor_Cheng_of_Han   (1497 words)

  
 Han Dynasty: A period of prosperity
Emperor Wu (Han Wudi) consolidated and extended the Chinese empire by pushing back the Xiongnu(sometimes identified with the Huns) into the steppes of modern Inner Mongolia, wresting from them the modern areas of Gansu, Ningxia and Qinghai.
Emperor Guangwu reinstated the Han Dynasty with the support of land-holding and merchant families at Luoyang, east of Xi'an.
Along with the refugees from the North, Emperor Yuan of Jin China reinstated the Jin regime at present Nanjing in the south.
www.archira.com /han.html   (935 words)

  
 Ladies of the Court of Emperor Huan of Han, Rafe de Crespigny Publications, Faculty of Asian Studies, ANU
Liu Zhi 劉志, known posthumously as Emperor Huan of the Later Han dynasty 漢桓帝, was born in 132 and came to the throne in 146 under the regency of the Empress-Dowager Liang Na and her brother Liang Ji.
Emperor Huan took the cap of manhood at the beginning of 148, aged sixteen sui, but there was no real change to the political system of control: the Dowager justified her continued maintenance of power by emergencies of the frontier and internal rebellion, and Liang Ji controlled the troops and officials at the capital.
Emperor Huan, indeed, had gathered a vast harem, alleged to number five or six thousand women, with servants and slaves, and ministers were protesting that the cost was becoming a major strain on the finances of the empire.
www.anu.edu.au /asianstudies/decrespigny/huan.html   (8789 words)

  
 AnywhereChina.com - History Page - Han Dynasty   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
In the Han Dynasty, the Huns (known as Xiongnu by the Chinese) threatened the expanding Chinese Empire from the north.
The Han Empire expanded in the west almost to the borders of eastern Europe and in the northeast to Korea.
The pattern of the rise and fall of Han was to be repeated in later dynasties.
www.anywherechina.com /history/dynasties/han/han.htm   (856 words)

  
 TCM history – Qin & Han Dynasty   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Emperor Yuan in 43 BC required all his attendant officials who were doctors to be tested.
There were the imperial court physicians who attended to the emperor, and the physicians who attended to the army and the common people within the provinces of the empire.
Guo Yu, who was the court physician of Emperor He, and Fu Weng were two doctors of the first century AD who were renowned for their skills in acupuncture and moxibustion.
www.shen-nong.com /eng/history/qinhan.html   (1407 words)

  
 2. The Han Dynasty - All Empires
Han Gaozu ruled for less than a decade, and his main contributions were to consolidate the dynasty.
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.
The later Han emperors were all puppets, and the puppet-masters were the mighty warlords, Dong Zhuo and later Cao Cao.
www.allempires.com /article/index.php?q=the_han_dynasty   (1130 words)

  
 Yuan Dynasty Zaju
Yuan, meaning "broad new horizon," comes from the Chinese philosophical work, The Book of Changes,and was chosen by a Han official named Liu Bingzhong by order of the Mongol emperor Kublai.
Liu Bingzhong was one of the few Han officials of the early Yuan Dynasty accorded trust by the new governance, and this was solely by virtue of his family background.
The nomadic Yuan rulers despised the old traditions of the Central Plains area, and made staggeringly drastic changes, one of which was institution of a complex social hierarchy in which racial discrimination dominated.
www.chinavoc.com /magicn/yzaj.asp   (1711 words)

  
 Han , Sui, Tang Dynasties
The Han Dynasty was founded by the Liu family.The Chinese people consider the Han Dynasty to be one of the greatest periods in the entire history of China.
Han court officials who attempted to strip lands out of the landlords faced such enormous resistance that their policies would never be put in to place.
Prestige of a newly founded dynasty during the reigns of the first three emperors was barely able to hinder the corruption; however Confucian scholar gentry turned against eunuchs for their corrupted authorities, while consort clans and eunuchs struggled for power in subsequent reigns.
www.crystalinks.com /chinadynasties2.html   (2575 words)

  
 Hohhot, Regent Tour China   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Lying 9 km to the south of the city, Zhaojun's tomb is a tomb tumulus with rammed clay 33 meters high.
It occupies an area of 3.3 ha and is one of the remains for posterity to commemorate Wang Zhaojun, the lady of honor of the Han Dynasty, from 51-53 BC.
Emperor Yuan, ruler of the Han Dynasty at that time, married Wang Zhaojun to Chanyu in order to keep peace in the border area.
www.regenttour.com /chinaplanner/het/het-sights-zhaojun.htm   (187 words)

  
 Mongols and Yuan China by Sanderson Beck
Emperor Yuan has his counselor Mao Yanshou select the most beautiful women in the empire to be his wives and concubines.
Emperor Yuan is very reluctant to part with his favorite concubine, but eventually he does so.
Emperor Huhanya orders Mao Yanshou arrested and returned to Emperor Yuan for punishment in order to resolve the situation, and he is beheaded as a sacrifice to the brilliant imperial concubine.
www.san.beck.org /3-6-Mongols.html   (11119 words)

  
 Chinese History - Han Dynasty æ¼¢ map and geography (www.chinaknowledge.de)
Taiwan R.O.C. From the capital Chang'an (modern Xi'an/Shaanxi) the Western Han empire (Xihan 西漢) was administrated in regions (zhou 州; courier type and underlined) and subordinated commanderies (jun 郡) and princedoms (wangguo 王國; in violet letters).
The northern neighbors of the Western Han empire were the mights nomad confederations of the Xiongnu, the Wusun 烏孫, Wuhuan 烏桓 and Xianbei 鮮卑.
The southwest that was incorporated into the Han empire in 109 BC the former kingdoms of Dian 滇 and Ailao 哀牢 became tributaries.
www.chinaknowledge.de /History/Han/han-map.html   (631 words)

  
 Millennial Fair – the Rise and Fall of the Emperial Han by Jonathan Wu
The new Emperor left all the affairs of state to his eunuchs and the time of rebellion was nearby.
The Han Emperor was powerless against his oppressors; after Dong Zhuo came Cao Cao, another ambitious warlord who wanted to unite the land under his own rule.
Cao Pi ascended the throne as Wei Emperor, Sun Quan established the Kingdom of Wu, and Liu Bei crowned himself Emperor of Shu.
www.millennial-fair.com /literature/han1.html   (2082 words)

  
 "Autumn in the Palace of the Han" by Ma chih-yuan
Summary:  Written in the late 1200s under the Yuan dynasty of the Mongols, the story is set during the early 1200s when the Han rulers face the more powerful Khan and his forces.
Although playwright Ma chih-yuan may have been using the play to comment on his own times, advocating stronger Han resistance against the Mongols, he is careful to present both the Han emperor and the Khan as sympathetic figures.
Yuan plays, on the other hand, are dramas of events and their meanings.
www.indiana.edu /~easc/lit_workshop/lesson_plans/Kushida_2000.htm   (1644 words)

  
 Imperial Era: III
During the Yuan period, Beijing became the terminus of the Grand Canal, which was completely renovated.
The Manchu emperors also supported Chinese literary and historical projects of enormous scope; the survival of much of China's ancient literature is attributed to these projects.
Han Chinese were prohibited from migrating into the Manchu homeland, and Manchus were forbidden to engage in trade or manual labor.
www-chaos.umd.edu /history/imperial3.html   (1318 words)

  
 Yuan Dynasty: Ancient China Dynasties   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Kublai, who was known as Emperor Shizu continued to annex Chinese territory and in 1279 the Yuan forces captured Hangzhou, the capital city of the Southern Song (1127 -1279).
With their dynasty now firmly established in the Chinese empire, the Yuan found themselves rulers of a complex group of peoples who inhabited the largest land based empire ever to exist, stretching from what is now Korea and western Russia in the north and from Burma to Iraq in the south.
The last Yuan Emperor together with his court fled from the country while many of the Mongols were content to remain and become integrated with the Chinese population.
www.muztagh.com /china-history/yuan/index.htm   (697 words)

  
 The four most beautiful women in the ancient China
A native of Zigui (in Western Hubei province), she entered the imperial harem during the reign of Emperor Yuan of Western Han (48-33 BC).
Emperor Yuan was intent on finding out how such an error could have arisen.
Emperor Xuanzong, wallowing in the pleasures of the flesh, neglected his court and politics.
www.chinatown-online.com /cultureeye/common/four.htm   (1908 words)

  
 Liu Bang: Emperor Gaozu: Chinese History
Emperor Gaozu, also known under the name Liu Bang, was the first emperor of the Han Dynasty (206 BC - 24 AD).
He was born into a peasant family in Pei (present Pei County in Jiangsu Province), and was once one of the leaders of the peasant insurrections in the late Qin Dynasty (221-206 BC).
Emperor Gaozu's efforts laid a solid foundation for the over four-hundred-year reign of the Han Dynasty.
www.travelchinaguide.com /intro/history/han/liubang.htm   (487 words)

  
 Emperor Wudi of Han
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.
During the reign of Emperor Wu, Western Han Dynasty was in a period of great prosperity.
www.travelchinaguide.com /intro/history/han/emperor_wu.htm   (371 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.htm   (10227 words)

  
 Han Dynasty: Emperor Han Wudi
Emperor Wu of the Han (156 - 87 BC)
Emperor Wu, or Liu Che, was the seventh ruler of the Western Han Dynasty (206 BC-24 AD).
He succeeded to the throne at the age of 16, and later managed to take over the power from his grandmother and her adherents.
www.warriortours.com /intro/history/han/emperor_wu.htm   (228 words)

  
 The Scholars of Shen Zhou :: View topic - What if Yuan Shao had actually beaten Cao Cao?
If Yuan Shao won, Yuan Shu would feel he was a threat and still declare himself emperor and Yuan Shu and Yuan Shao would fight for control, while Liu Bei and Sun Ce gain power in the south.
Yuan Shu was moving north to join his brother Shao when he declared himself Emperor.
Yuan Shao was somewhat power hungry himself, seeing how he took Ji Zhou from Han Fu and defeated Gongsun Zan for his land.
the-scholars.com /viewtopic.php?t=3465   (1322 words)

  
 Wang Zhaojun
During the reign of the Han emperor Xuan (91-49BC), the Huns, or Xiong-Nu (http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hun), Han’s troublesome northern neighbor, split into five kingdoms, each led by a chieftain known as Shan-Yu.
The emperor sent an army of ten thousand strong to escort him back and gave him a hundred thousand bushels of food to bring back to his starved people.
The emperor granted his request, but instead of his daughter, the bride would be a maid of honor.
www.wku.edu /~yuanh/China/tales/zhaojun_b.htm   (773 words)

  
 Chinese History - Han Dynasty æ¼¢ (www.chinaknowledge.de)
Wang Mang 王莽 tried to replace the Han Dynasty but his reforms to shape an ideal Confucian government failed, and the Han Dynasty was restored as Eastern Han.
The Eastern Han, much more than Western Han, suffered under the intervention of consort clans (waiqi 夗戚) and eunuch (huanguan 宦官) factions into the inner power circle of the empire.
The fundaments of both of the Wang Mang and Eastern Han administration were shaken by large peasant uprisings with religious backgrounds (Red Eyebrows 赤眉, Yellow Turbans 黃巾, Five-Pecks-of-Grain Sect 五旗米道), the helm of government of Eastern Han was taken over my mighty warlords that should divide the Han empire into three "kingdoms" (Sanguo 三國).
www.chinaknowledge.de /History/Han/han.html   (321 words)

  
 Monks and Merchants | Heavenly Horses and the Aftermath of Empire
Threatened by incursions of mounted nomadic tribes from the north and northwest, the Han emperor Wudi (r.
It was in part the need to secure this breed of horse, vital to the Han campaigns against the nomads, that drove Han armies into Central Asia.
With the fall of the Han in 220 C.E., this situation began to change.
www.asiasociety.org /arts/monksandmerchants/horses.htm   (328 words)

  
 Was the last Mongol Yuan emperor a Han Chinese? - China History Forum, chinese history forum
I keep reading rumors that his mother (a Turkish Muslim princess) was a bride of the last Song emperor before Mongol emperor Khoshila took her away as his own.
Problem here is that the terms 'Han' and 'Manchu' aren't as scientific or genetic as they are political terms used by the Qing to classify its peoples.
She was pregnant that same year and bore a son who later become Toghon Timur, the last Yuan Mongol ruler of China.
www.chinahistoryforum.com /index.php?showtopic=4393   (890 words)

  
 wangzhaojun
She entered the imperial harem during the reign of Emperor Yuan of Western Han (48-33 BC).
As the emperor had a large harem of maidens, he chose his companions by looking at their portraits.
It was only when she was summoned before the emperor prior to her departure that Emperor Yuan realised his terrible mistake.
www.fortunecity.com /victorian/song/270/motif/wangzhaojun.html   (339 words)

  
 Sierra: Emperor - Downloads
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Emperor Jin Wudi (also known as Sima Yuan) was the only Emperor to (briefly) reunite China under a single leader during the entire 450-year period after the fall of the Han dynasty and the start of the Sui dynasty.
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 Diao Chan
At fifteen, she was selected as a maid of honor in the Han Court, where she was charged with the duty of taking care of court officials’ hat decorations known as Diao Chan at the time.
With the death of the Han emperor Ling in 189 A.D., the Han Dynasty fell apart so that warlords ran rampant.
When the Han Dynasty fell apart, she lost her job and was adopted by Wang Yun and worked for him as an alme - a singing and dancing girl.
www.wku.edu /~yuanh/China/tales/diaochan_b.htm   (879 words)

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