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 Tianqi Emperor of China   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Emperor Tianqi (1605-1627) was emperor of China (Ming dynasty) between 1620-1627.
Born Zhu Youxiao, he was emperor Taichang's eldest son.
Tianqi became emperor as a teenager and did not gave much atention to the state affairs, giving the actual power to the eunuch Wei Zhongxian and Madam Ke.
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 Chongzhen Emperor of China - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Emperor Chongzhen 崇禎(WG: Ch'ung-chen) (1610 - 1644) was last emperor of Ming dynasty in China between 1627 and 1644.
Popular uprisings and attacks from the Manchus in northeast China were becoming constant.
Chongzhen, still wearing his imperial attire, fled to the nearby Jingshan Park, where it is believed that his finals words to princess Chang were "吾非亡国之君,汝皆亡国之臣。吾待士亦不薄,今日至此,群臣何无一人相从?",which roughly translates as "I, the emperor, are not responsible for the end of Ming, but you, my officials are.
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 Tianqi Emperor of China   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Tianqi (1605 - 1627) was Emperor of China (Ming dynasty) from 1620 to 1627.
Tianqi became emperor as a teenager and not give much attention to affairs of giving the actual power to the eunuch Wei Zhongxian and Madam Ke.
China's Emperor Qianlong (1736 - 1795) is remembered for many reasons, not the least of which is the priceless collection of treasures which he amassed during his 60 year reign.
www.freeglossary.com /Tianqi_Emperor_of_China   (483 words)

  
 Yongle Emperor - China History Forum, chinese history forum
China History Forum is an online chinese history forum, discussion board or community for all who are interested in learning and discussing chinese history from prehistoric till modern times, including chinese art of war, chinese culture topics.
Emperor Yong-le also mounted five military expedition into mongolia and totally crush the remnants of the yuan dynasty that fled to the north after got defeated by first emperor of the ming dynasty.He make mongolia into chinese tributary and all the tribes in mongolia must submit to him and proclaimed themselves vassal.
The Yongle Emperor of China was the third ruler in the Ming Dynasty, from 1403 to 1424.
chinahistoryforum.com /index.php?showtopic=784&st=30&...&#entry4763433   (2152 words)

  
 Exploring Chinese History :: Biographical Database :: Imperial China- (?- 1644)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Guang Wudi Emperor of Eastern Han; 光武皇帝; Guang Wudi (January 15, 5 BCE- March 29, CE 57)- Born Liu Xiu, Emperor of the Chinese Han Dynasty, restorer of the dynasty in CE 25 and thus founder of the Later Han or Eastern Han.
After assembling forces and proclaiming himself emperor in the face of competitors, he was able to defeat his rivals, destroy the peasant army of the Chimei (Red Eyebrows, 赤眉), known for their disorganization and marauding, and finally reunify the whole of China in CE 36.
The emperor devoted great personal care to the whole project, and in his instruction to the ministers told them that the code of laws should be comprehensive and intelligible, so as not to leave any loophole for lower officials to misinterpret the law through twisting its language.
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 The Rise of the Manchus
The Manchus (known to themselves as the Jurchen) were one of the many fierce horse riding nomads to the north of China who supplemented their herding and hunting with the occasional raid into China.
Yet under the Emperor Tianqi, China had become fatally divided and appeared to be a plum ripening on the branch.
Tianqi acceded to the throne at the age of 15.
www.suite101.com /article.cfm/east_asian_history/115599   (531 words)

  
 China History Forum, chinese history forum > Yongle Emperor
Aug 23 2004, 04:25 PM The Yongle Emperor of China was the third ruler in the Ming Dynasty, from 1403 to 1424.
Carpenter emperor was Emperor TianQi, elder brother of Emperor Chong Zhen.
The pretext was that the military escort was disrespectful to the late Emperor and to the new Emperor.
www.chinahistoryforum.com /lofiversion/index.php/t784.html   (6866 words)

  
 Summary and Evaluation of China, Korea & Japan to 1875 by Sanderson Beck
Emperor Wen reigned 180-157 BC, and he was acclaimed a great exemplar for his benevolent policies that abolished cruel punishments, reduced taxes, and instituted civil service examinations.
Northern China was ruled by a sequence of five dynasties from 907 to 960 while eight kingdoms existed simultaneously in the south.
The 14-year-old Mutsuhito became emperor in February 1867, and in November Shogun Keiki resigned to be the Emperor's prime minister; but in January 1868 Satsuma, Choshu, and Tosa forces made Keiki surrender, and Tokugawa lands were confiscated to finance the Meiji restoration of the Emperor.
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 Ming Empire 1368-1644 by Sanderson Beck
Emperor Hongwu wrote a commentary on Lao-zi's Dao De Jing in 1375, and he thought maybe he should not put to death so many people; but the next year he had hundreds of officials executed for pre-stamping fiscal documents as a convenience.
Scholars criticized the Emperor for harsh methods; but in 1385 Hongwu had his vice-minister of revenue and hundreds of others executed for embezzling, and the minister of personnel was accused of slandering the head of the National University and was put to death.
China reopened trade relations in 1403 with Japan's Shogun Yoshimitsu; his successor Yoshimochi refused to have official trade relations with the Ming court, though private trade continued.
www.san.beck.org /3-7-MingEmpire.html   (23715 words)

  
 Tiger Trade from India
In a recent progress report on the trade of tiger bones, it is stressed that: constraints of economic, cultural and scientific nature still exist in China and the century-long utilization of wild fauna and flora in Chinese medicine is a typical example.
China is still a major manufacturer of medicine containing tiger parts, which are re-exported not only to other Asian countries, but also to the United States and Canada.
China is still conducting research on substitutes of products containing medicinal ingredients such as the tiger bone.
gurukul.ucc.american.edu /ted/TIGERIND.htm   (5076 words)

  
 China   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Revered in China during his lifetime in a way not easy for non-Chinese to understand, he was enormously influential around the world as well.
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.
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)

  
 China Empire   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Tianjin China is one of the 4 municipalities directly under the Central Government in China.
Tianjin China is located in the northeast of the North China Plain and this is the city which closest seaport to Beijing.
China, the wide and large country in the world and of course there are many several and varity of cultural and people.
china-empire.blogspot.com   (4219 words)

  
 1605 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Frédéric Maurice de La Tour d'Auvergne, duc de Bouillon, prince of the independent principality of Sedan (died 1652)
Tianqi Emperor, Ming emperor of China (died 1627)
October 15 - Akbar, Mogul Emperor (born 1542)
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 Fine Ming Dynasty, Tianqi Wine Cup, ca.1621-27
MIng Emperor TianQi (1621-27), son of Ming Emperor TaiChang (1619-21), grandson of Ming emperor Wanli (1573-1619).
TianQi became emperor at the age of 16.
TianQi's reign was instrumental in rapid decline and fall of the Great Ming Dynasty.
www.antiqnet.com /detail,ming-dynasty-tianqi,834309.html   (315 words)

  
 CHINA BOOKS: *History: Ancient & Classical   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Challenging the traditional view of China’s tributary system, he argues that it was not a unilateral tool of hegemony but rather a game of interest and power in which multiple partners modified the rules depending on changing historical circumstances.
On a spring afternoon in 1509 a local bandit found himself in the emperor’s private quarters deep within the Forbidden City and in the presence of the Son of Heaven himself.
Tales and tidbits about the lives of emperors and their families, about courtiers and eunuchs, about the buildings and the treasures contained within them have long been the object of public fascination.
www.chinabooks.com.au /generalcatalogue/histclass.htm   (3864 words)

  
 Emperors of China   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Each Emperor at birth [except in the Yuan Dynasty received a given name and a personal name.
After the accession of the Emperor the personal name became taboo.
After the death of an Emperor, a posthumous or temple name was used in Confucian rites.
users.bigpond.net.au /bstone/emperors.htm   (98 words)

  
 Book: Chinese Literature: Journey to the West-chinese literature, classical chinese literature, ancient chinese ...
According to Records of Huai'an Compiled during the Tianqi reign period of the Ming Dynasty, Wu Chen'en was "lively and clever, erudite and an accomplished writer".
From 1963 to 1965 he was a translator at the Foreign Languages Press, for which he translated From Emperor to Citizen (volume 1, 1964; volume 2, 1965; laterreprints in two-volume and single-volume form, including one from Oxford University Press), the ghosted autobiography of Aisin-Gioro Pu Yi, the last emperor of China.
In recent years his main project has been a major new two-volume history of China from the Neolithic the present for Penjuin Books.
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