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Topic: Kingdom of Zhao

	(The Emperor and The Assassin - Character Guide)
		Lady Zhao is the closest person to the King and is even willing to sacrifice her beauty for him.
		The King's destruction of the Kingdom of Zhao alienates the King from his lover.
		A childhood friend of the Emperor and Lady Zhao (he was also a hostage in the Kingdom of Zhao as a child) who eventually becomes a fierce rival of the Emperor.
	www.sonyclassics.com /emperorandassassin/characterguide-content.html (480 words)

	The Emperor and the Assassin
		The Kingdom of Qin invades the Kingdom of Han.
		The King of Qin now tells General Wang that he wants revenge on the kingdom of Zhao for the disrespect they had shown to he and his family when he was a boy.
		Lady Zhao says that he cannot be a good ruler if he has hate in his heart: "The ruler of all under heaven should love all people under heaven." She gets the King to agree to save the children.
	www.vernonjohns.org /snuffy1186/empassn.html (2325 words)

	The Kingdom of Shu (蜀國) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Kingdom of Shu was getting weaker and weaker after his death and eventually taken over by Wei 30 years later.
		Zhao Yun also fought in Zhuge Liang's first Northern Campaign at the age of 70, cutting down five generals of Wei in a row, father and four sons.
		Recently a visitor wrote me about Zhao Yun's age and asked me to change the year of his birth because he should not be that old.
	www.chinapage.com /calligraphy/sushi/shu.html (2137 words)

	Vietnam - Printer-friendly - MSN Encarta
		Zhao, known in Vietnam as Trieu Da, named the kingdom Nam Viet (Nan Ywe in Chinese, meaning “southern Viet”).
		Determined to obtain an outlet for their growing population, in the 10th century Vietnamese rulers began turning their attention south to the kingdom of Champa, a seafaring state inhabited by Malay-speaking peoples.
		For the next several generations, Vietnam continued its historic “march to the south,” wiping up the remnants of the Cham kingdom and gradually penetrating the marshy flatlands of the Mekong Delta.
	encarta.msn.com /text_761552648___97/Vietnam.html (4660 words)

	The so called 7 mega states of the Zhan Guo - China History Forum, chinese history forum
		While the kingdom of Zhao and Han were relatively weak in comparison to the other kingdoms and constantly sought help from greater powers.
		Zhao, Han and Wei were formerly vassals of the defunct state of Jin, at one time, the most powerful state led by an offshoot of the Ji clan.
		Note that the Shiji and other works insist on the enfiefment of princes of Wei, Zhao and Han by the Zhou king, which mean that by the end of the 5th century, we were still in a "feudal prince" configuration.
	www.chinahistoryforum.com /index.php?showtopic=10378 (3054 words)

	Xin Lingjun (? - 243 B.C.) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Xin Lingjun (?-243 B.C) was the youngest son of King Wei Zhao and the step-brother of King Wei Anshi.
		Xin replied, 'I have my spies among the kingdom of Zhao and know their every move.' King Anshi was jealous of his step-brother's ability and subtlety ousted him from his administration.
		He defeated the Qin army again leading the army of five different kingdoms and was hailed as one of the Four Gentlemen of Zhao Guo.
	www.yutopian.com /chinesechess/stories/xinling.html (460 words)

	The Emperor and the Assassin
		He is slowly starting to believe that he is the one destined to bring together the warring kingdoms of China.
		They grew up together in the kingdom of Zhao, but Ying's increasing political aspirations are driving them further apart.
		Zhao is the only character with real depth, and none of this is apparent until well into the movie.
	www.haro-online.com /movies/emperor_and_the_assassin.html (503 words)

	Romance of the Three Kingdoms X: Officer Biographies
		He was killed by Zhao Yun when he tried to pillage Chang Ban Po, and the sword was taken from him.
		Opposed Sima Zhao’s dominance and caused a revolt with help from Wu, but failed and was killed aling with hundreds of his followers.
		He was second only to Zhao Yun in his reputation as a fierce and loyal warrior.
	www.kongming.net /10/biographies/?kingdom=All (14445 words)

	DVD Review - The Emperor And The Assassin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Aware of the implications, he knows that he cannot simply attack the kingdom, as it would cause a stir among the remaining kingdom, who may unite to battle his plans.
		Above all towers the image of Lady Zhao, a brave woman who is willing to give everything to support the vision of her loved one, until the peaceful mission turns into a brutal holocaust.
		He is firmly established as a warrior in the beginning of the film so that all his decisiveness, his power and his prowess are always in the back of the viewer’s head.
	www.dvdreview.com /fullreviews/the_emperor_and_the_assassin.shtml (1326 words)

	The Emperor and the Assassin: Cranky Critic® Movie Reviews
		At its start, the seven Kingdoms of China are all that is left of the hundreds that existed when Unification Wars began 550 years earlier; 780 B.C. if you're doing the math.
		It was custom in those kingdoms for hostages to be held, each insuring the maintenance of a political status quo.
		Zhao would be an easy target but devotion to his lover, Lady Zhao (Gong Li), gets in the way of that.
	www.crankycritic.com /archive99/emperorandtheassassin.html (791 words)

	The emperor and the assassin - CIA
		In preparation for the second of his six assaults, Ying gains the help of his concubine Zhao (Gong Li), who travels to the kingdom of Han as a spy, in order to make the king believe that she has fallen out of favour with Ying.
		Once in Han, and together with the king, Zhao will find an assassin, who will be sent to kill Ying, but Ying will be prepared for the assassin's onslaught, and in defending himself, will be considered unstoppable.
		Struck by his subtle demeanour and able swordsmanship, Zhao approaches Jing Ke about becoming the assassin for whom she has been looking and begins a campaign to convince him to kill Ying, using all her powers of persuasion.
	thecia.com.au /reviews/e/emperor-and-the-assasin.shtml (590 words)

	Women in power Year 1-500
		The rebels were finally defeated in battle by a force led by the Roman governor of Britain, Suetonius Paulinus, after which she took her own life by ingesting poison together with her two daughters, Camorra and Tasca or, according to legend, Voada and Voadicia.
		In 300 the King of Zhao led a coup against her, and she was killed along with several others in her faction.
		In 357, as Emperor Mu turned 14 and she officially stripped herself of her role as regent, and moved to Chongde Palace, which would be her residence for the rest of her life.
	www.guide2womenleaders.com /womeninpower/Womeninpower01.htm (6632 words)

	Not sure if this counts or not, but - Armchair General Forums
		One of these is the old Kingdom of Zhao.
		Zhao lied to the east of the Tai Hang Mt. --- where we passed through our training ---- and wasn't willing to submit to Han faction.
		His task was to conquer an enemy about 10 times of its own size: the king of Zhao soon gathered and deployed a force of 400,000 men to meet and engage the invader, under the command of a famous general Chen Yu.
	www.armchairgeneral.com /forums/showthread.php?t=11051 (2547 words)

	Happy Times - MonkeyPeaches (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Synopsis: Retired factory worker Zhao (Zhao) is trying to marry the woman of his dream (Dong).
		Zhao unexpected becomes a father figure of the blind girl and to make her happy, he has to lie about everything...
		Among the seven kingdoms, Qin was the strongest.
	www.monkeypeaches.com /happytimes.html (738 words)

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		During the fall of the Qin and rise of the Han, the Qin Empire dissolved and the provinces realigned under their old Kingdom names and general borders.
		Petty warlords and bandit kings contended with the noble families of those ancient kingdoms to seize power in the vacuum left by the Qin.
		The patriotism these old Kingdoms inspired played a vital role in determining the ultimate outcome of the civil war, so I have attempted to give a brief overview of each of nine of the major Kingdoms that reformed after the dissolution of the Qin.
	www.simwarlords.net /Biographies.htm (193 words)

	China (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Set in the second Century BC, ASSASSIN tells the story of Ying Zheng, a power-hungry heir to the throne of the Kingdom of Qin, whose only goal is to conquer the other six kingdoms existing in China, and merge them into his own, and under his rule.
		In preparation for the second to his six assaults, Ying gains the help of his concubine Zhao (Gong Li), who travels to the kingdom of Han as a spy, in order to make the king believe that she has fallen out of favor with Ying.
		Struck by his subtle demeanor and able swordmanship, Zhao approaches Jing Ke about becoming the assassin for whom she has been looking and begins a campaign to convince him to kill Ying, using all her powers of persuasion.
	www.usc.edu /libraries/archives/asianfilm/china/assassin.html (408 words)

	A Concise History of Southeast Asia, Chapter 1
		The Arakanese chronicles claim that their kingdom was founded in 2666 B.C., and they contain lists of kings going back to that date.
		One of the Thai princes, Pi Logo, brought all six states under his rule; in 738 the Chinese recognized him as the "Nan Zhao" or "Southern Prince." Prosperity came immediately, since Nan Zhao and its capital, Dali, were in a well-defended region, and the land route of the Indochina trade passed through their realm.
		Nan Zhao's best years were in the 9th century, when the previously mentioned raids into Burma and Vietnam were made.
	www.xenohistorian.faithweb.com /seasia/sea01.html (5220 words)

	Chinese Paladin (Xian Jian Qi Xia Zhuan) (2004) - Mainland China Drama Reviews - spcnet.tv
		The kingdom of Nan Zhao is brainwashed by the chief of a moon-worshipping cult (Tsui Kam Kong) who forces the King (Ben Wong) to sentence his Queen (Sun Li) to death, claiming that she is a demoness.
		He meets Zhao Ling'er (Liu Yifei) who is the long-lost daughter of Nan Zhao Kingdom's Queen together with her nanny (Cheng Pei Pei).
		On the way to Nan Zhao Kingdom, Xiao Yao and Ling'er befriend a scholar, Liu Jing Yuan (Bryan Wong) and his sassy cousin, Lin Yue Ru (Ady An), who because of a misunderstanding, is at odds with Xiao Yao.
	www.spcnet.tv /reviews/review.php?rID=957 (2199 words)

	RTE.ie Entertainment - Hero (12PG)
		The title character, a man with no name (shades of Eastwood) who is referred to as Nameless (Li), is brought before the court to tell how he vanquished the king's three most deadly enemies - Sky (Yen), Snow (Cheung) and Broken Sword (Leung).
		Although there are complications involved within the flashbacks, the overall story remains the same: Nameless fights Sky, then journeys to a calligraphy school in the kingdom of Zhao where Snow and Broken Sword are holed up with servant girl Moon (Ziyi).
		Like the relationships in 'Crouching Tiger...', it is the interplay between the passionate trio of Snow, Broken Sword and Moon that gives the film its heart and soul.
	www.rte.ie /arts/2004/1104/hero.html (438 words)

	Generals of Shu
		The first five generals (Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Zhao Yun, Huang Zhong and Ma Chao) are known as the five tiger generals of the Shu Kingdom after Liu Bei conquered HanZhong and became the King of HanZhong thus bestowing these titles to the five of them.
		The longest surviving of the five tiger generals of the Shu Kingdom, Zhao Yun originally served under the warlord Gongsun Zan but abandoned him after finding him to be a warlord who fights for his own gains and didn't bother about suffering of the general populace.
		After the founding of the Shu Kingdom, Ma Chao was responsible for guarding the northern border against invasion by the barbarian tribes and the Wei Kingdom.
	www.3kingdoms.net /shugen.htm (2801 words)

	Notable Women during the Three Kingdoms
		During the evacuation of Xinye's populace due to the coming onslaught of the Cao army she got lost together with Liu Bei's son Liu Shan in the midst of confusion and got hurt.
		Zhao Yun went in search of her and the little master Liu Shan in the disarrayed battleground and finally found both of them.
		Being hurt and not wanting to burden Zhao Yun anymore, she committed suicide by ditching into a well so that Zhao Yun will have an easier time breaking out of the enemy encirclement with the infant Liu Shan.
	www.3kingdoms.net /women.htm (936 words)

	BFI \| Sight & Sound \| The Emperor and the Assassin (1999)
		The main obstacle to unification is the powerful kingdom of Yan which Ying needs a pretext to invade.
		Lady Zhao, Ying's concubine whom he met during captivity in her home kingdom of Zhao, proposes to travel to Yan and contract an assassin to kill Ying Zheng.
		In an attack on the Zhao capital, the city's children leap to their deaths rather than submit to Qin rule.
	www.bfi.org.uk /sightandsound/review/531 (702 words)

	Chinese Substates
		Buring the next years many of Later Zhao's southern provinces switched their allegiance to Jin, but not firmly so and a number of military campains followed.
		After her father, the last Han Zhao emperor, Liu Yao, was captured by Later Zhao's founding emperor Shi Le in 329, she fled together with her brothers Crown Prince Liu Xi and Prince Liu Yin of Nanyang from the capital Chang'an to Shanggui.
		Kingdom of Wu 190-203 Politically Influential Lady Wu She was the chief consort of Emperor Ling of Han Dynasty China.
	www.guide2womenleaders.com /chinese_substates.htm (1057 words)

	A Step Into The Past - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The plan was to take Hong more than 2000 years back to the Kingdom of Qin, half an hour prior to the coronation of the King of Qin, Ying Zheng.
		However, a critical error occurred during the transportation stage and Hong was thrown into the wrong place and the wrong time – ending up in the Kingdom of Zhao in 250 BC, at the height of the Warring States Period.
		The reluctant Zhao Pan is thus forced into and maintained in this illustrious role by a desperate Hong, and the party arrives successfully in the Kingdom of Qin.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/A_Step_into_the_Past (1467 words)

	Battle of Wits (2006)
		Liang only possesses a handful of soldiers compared to Zhao's fast-approaching thousands, who are led by their renowned general Xiang Yanzhang (Korean actor Ahn Sung-Ki).
		Ge Li's brilliant defense strategy leaves Zhao with no option to retreat, and soon the whole city is in love Ge Li and his manly facial hair.
		The politics and beliefs of the people are called into question, as everyone in Liang must learn to buy Ge Li's message of universal love, or reveal themselves to be selfish and generally crappy.
	www.lovehkfilm.com /reviews_2/battle_of_wits.htm (1523 words)

	Ethics of China 7 BC To 1279 by Sanderson Beck
		In 304 a Di family founded the Cheng Han kingdom in Sichuan, while the Xiongnu of southern Shansi became the independent kingdom of Zhao, seizing Luoyang in 311 and Chang'an five years later, once again destroying the library.
		General Zhao Kuangyin was chosen commander of the imperial army by the last Zhou emperor in 959 after gold he had been accused of taking during a military campaign turned out to be trunks of books.
		Zhao Ruyu gained influence and appointed the Neo-Confucian philosopher Zhu Xi to a high position, but Han Tuozhou, who was criticized for making nepotistic appointments, replaced Zhao as chief councilor in 1195 and accused Zhu Xi of "false learning." Han banned Zhu Xi's Neo-Confucian doctrines and compelled examination candidates to renounce that school.
	www.san.beck.org /AB3-China.html (20851 words)

	Individuality Unearthed
		In China, the third century B.C. was a time of political unrest referred to as the Warring States Era (475 B.C. There were at least 12 different kingdoms within China at the time, all with their own rulers and their own political agendas.
		Ying Zheng, the man who would later become Qin Shihuangdi or "First Emperor of Qin," was born in 258 B.C. His father, Prince Zichu of Qin, was held hostage for a time in the kingdom of Zhao.
		By 221 B.C., he was well on his way when the kingdoms of Han, Zhao, Wei, Yan, Chu and Qi fell to the Qin.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/archaeology/55353 (533 words)

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