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  Hongzhi Emperor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Hongzhi Emperor (July 30, 1470–June 8, 1505) was emperor of the Ming dynasty in China between 1487 and 1505.
Hongzhi was born in an era where Lady Wan and her associates were on the lookout to eliminate any child born to the emperor Chenghua.
Hongzhi was immersed in Confucian schooling and he excelled in his studies.
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 MSN Encarta - Search View - China
China borders Russia, Mongolia, and North Korea on the north; Pakistan, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Kazakhstan on the west; India, Nepal, Bhutan, Myanmar (Burma), Laos, and Vietnam on the south; and the Pacific Ocean and its extensions on the east.
China’s heritage was also available to those residents who were not literate in the Chinese language, often through the medium of drama, which brought stories from Chinese history and literature into even remote towns and villages.
China is the world's largest rice producer, and rice is the country's most important crop, raised on 26 percent of the cultivated land.
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 mainland China - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about mainland China   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
China's attacks on the USSR began obliquely in 1960 with condemnations of Yugoslav revisionism.
China had insisted that allowing the plane to be flown out of the country would be regarded as a national humiliation.
China had agreed to cut tariffs from 21% to an overall average of 8% and eliminate subsidies for farmers and state-owned enterprises.
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 Hongwu Emperor -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Defeating rival national leaders, he proclaimed himself emperor in 1368, establishing his capital at (A city in eastern China on the Yangtze River; a former capital of China; the scene of a Japanese massacre in the 1930s) Nanjing and adopting Hongwu as his reign title.
Having fought off the calamities of the Mongol invasion, and given the realistic threat to China still posed by the Mongols, Hongwu reassessed the orthodox Confucian view regarding the military as an inferior class to be subordinated by the scholar bureaucracy.
The emperor's role this became even more autocratic, although Hongwu necessarily continued to use what he called the Grand Secretaries to assist with the immense paperwork of the bureaucracy, which included memorials (petitions and recommendations to the throne), imperial edicts in reply, reports of various kinds, and tax records.
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 Chenghua Emperor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Chenghua Emperor (December 9, 1447 – September 9, 1487) was Emperor of the Ming dynasty in China, between 1464 and 1487.
After that his uncle, the Jingtai Emperor took over whilst his father was put under house arrest for almost 7 years.
Emperor Chenghua's reign can be distinguished by his early attempts to reform the government and trying his best to rule the country.
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 Zhengde Emperor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Zhengde Emperor (October 26, 1491–April 20, 1521) was emperor of China (Ming dynasty) between 1505-1521.
Many of Emperor Hongzhi's minister surmised that Zhengde would yet turned out to be a benevolent and brilliant emperor.
Emperor Zhengde died in 1521 at the age of only 30.
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 China from Ming to the Manchu
Hongzhi had warned that his son Zhengde was too inclined toward a love of ease and pleasure.
China's agriculture was advancing - with some new crops such as maize, sweet potatoes and peanuts from the Americas.
Emperor Tianqi enjoyed carpentry while his court and administration was being tyrannized by a eunuch, Wei Zhongxian, who dismissed anyone from government service whom he thought might be disloyal to him.
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 Encyclopedia: Zhengde Emperor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The emperor or huangdi (皇帝 in pinyin: huang2 di4) of China was the head of government and head of state of China from the Qin dynasty in 221 B.C. until the fall of the Qing dynasty in 1911.
The Ming Dynasty was the ruling dynasty of China from 1368 to 1644.
The Jiajing Emperor (September 16, 1507–January 23, 1567) was emperor of China (Ming dynasty) between 1521-1567.
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 China * The Bear Watches the Dragon...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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China in the Era of Deng Xiaoping A Decade of Reform Studies on Contemporary China.
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 Encyclopedia: Hongzhi Emperor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
An emperor is a monarch and sovereign ruler of an empire or any other imperial realm.
The Hongwu Emperor (October 21, 1328 - June 24, 1398), personal name Zhu Yuanzhang, was the founder of the Ming Dynasty of China, and the first emperor of this dynasty from 1368 to 1398.
The Yongle Emperor (May 2, 1360–August 12, 1424), born Zhu Di, was the third emperor of the Ming Dynasty of China from 1402 to 1424.
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 CESNUR - Falun Gong Updates, Dec. 17-23, 1999
Threats to social stability in China have grown in recent years as workers have taken to the streets to protest massive layoffs and the withholding of wages and pensions by decrepit state factories.
But China's tightening noose around the movement, which appears to be gaining the cooperation of authorities in Hong Kong, has not dampened the plans of the Falun Gong members to protest and have their presence felt.
Branded ``an evil cult'' by China, Falun Gong was banned in July after members demanded recognition of their faith in a series of protests, combines elements of Buddhism and Chinese mysticism with traditional meditation exercises known as qigong.
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 Zhengde Emperor - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Xiangong Hongwen Sixiao Yi General note: Dates given here are in the Julian calendar.
One particular Liu Jin was notorious for taking advantage of the young emperor and squandered immense amount of silver and valuables.
Emperor Zhengde died in 1521 at the age of only 31.
www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Zhengde_Emperor_of_China   (289 words)

  
 Hongzhi Emperor - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
He was the son of the Chenghua Emperor and his reign as emperor of China is called the Hongzhi Silver Age.
His reign re-introduced fresh energy into the Ming dynasty and the citizens once again prospered under his rule.
Hongzhi's reign lasted 18 years and he died in 1505 and was succeeded by his son.
www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Hongzhi   (258 words)

  
 List of Buddhists   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
An Shih Kao, a Parthian monk and the first known Buddhist missionary to China, in 148 CE.
Dharmaraksita, a Greek Buddhist missionary of Emperor Ashoka, and a teacher of Nagasena.
Eisai (12th century Japanese monk, travelled to China and returned to found the Japanese Rinzai sect of Zen)
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 Hongzhi Emperor -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Hongzhi Emperor -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
The Hongzhi Emperor (July 30, 1470–June 8, 1505) was (The male ruler of an empire) emperor of the (The imperial dynasty of China from 1368 to 1644) Ming dynasty in (A communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia; the most populous country in the world) China between 1487 and 1505.
He was the son of the (additional info and facts about Chenghua Emperor) Chenghua Emperor and his reign as emperor of China is called the Hongzhi Silver Age.
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 The Epoch Times | The Clock Is Ticking: The End of Communist Party Rule in China Fast Approaches
The forest itself is fundamental to the equation concerning China, so those who look at just the political and economic aspects of the problem may see trees, but totally miss the fundamental basis for understanding what is really going on in China today and in the relatively near future.
That battle in China between the majority of Chinese scientists and the few materialistically bound CCP hacks in China’s scientific community also took place in the late communist empire in Eastern Europe and Russia itself.
Once China is free, the entire dynamics of the world will be entirely changed for the good, and other evils facing the world will in time be terminated with a new type of international order stemming from self-liberated China as its celestial center.
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Gasoline stockpiles fell more sharply than expected last week to stay near the bottom of their normal seasonal range, although data showing that demand growth had slowed to 1.5 percent in July offset some supply worries.
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 Taishan - China-related Topics TA-TD - China-Related Topics
Taishan (台山 pinyin: Tandaacute;ishān; Standard CantoneseCantonese: Toisan; local: Hoisan) is a coastal city in Guangdong Province, China.
The city is located southwest of Jiangmen, 140 kilometers west of Hong Kong, in the Pearl River delta, and it is home to 1 million people.
Taishan was founded as Xinning District (新寧縣) in the 12th year of the Hongzhi Emperor of ChinaHongzhi reign during the Ming Dynasty.
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 Articles - 1505   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
February 4 - Jane de Valois, daughter of Louis XI of France (born 1464)
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 1487
March 21 - Nicholas of Flue, Swiss hermit and saint (born 1417)
September 9 - Chenghua Emperor of China (born 1447)
September 30 - John Sutton, 1st Baron Dudley, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (born 1400)
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 HONGZHI   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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