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	Han Emperor Wu-ti
		Throughout the Chin and Han period (221 BC-220 AD) China's most formidable foreign opponent was the Xiongnu, a Turkish-speaking nomadic tribe which, at its apex of power early in the second century BC, held sway over a territory that extended all the way from Eastern Mongolia to the Aral Sea.
		Wu-ti's initial attempt to trade the Celetial Horses with gold coins was rejected by the king of Fergana and the Han envoy sent for the negotiation was murdered and stripped.
		Among them is the famous "Flying Horse" (See picture on the right), its head and tail raised high in a proudly untrammelled gallop, its fleeting touch with the earth brilliantly suggested in the one hoof borne on a flying swallow.
	www.silk-road.com /artl/wuti.shtml (1513 words)

	Emperor Wu of Han - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Emperor Wu is considered one of the greatest emperors throughout Chinese history, ranking alongside Emperor Taizong of the Tang dynasty, the Yongle Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, and the Kangxi Emperor of the Qing dynasty.
		As a military campaigner, Emperor Wu brought Han China to its greatest expansion, with borders spanning from Kyrgyzstan in the west, Northern Korea in the Northeast, to Northern Vietnam in the south.
		Emperor Wu was greatly pleased by this gesture, and he dispatched an expedition force to attack Minyue, over the objection of one of his key advisors, Liu An, a royal relative.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Emperor_Wu_of_Han_China (5831 words)

	Wu Han - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Wu Han was initially a deputy to Peng Chong (彭寵), the governor of Yuyang Commandery (漁陽, roughly modern Beijing), during the brief reign of Emperor Gengshi.
		Wu was strong in military tactics but not in overall strategies, and he often became the implementer of Emperor Guangwu's own excellent strategies.
		A major fault of Wu was, as noted, he was cruel to civilians, and his soldiers were lacking in discipline with regard to pillaging civilians.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wu_Han (583 words)

	Emperor Wu of Han -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Emperor Wu of Han (156 BC –March 29, 87 BC), personal name Liu Che, was the sixth emperor of the Chinese (Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy) Han Dynasty, ruling from 141 BC to 87 BC.
		Emperor Wu adopted the principles of (The teachings of Confucius emphasizing love for humanity; high value given to learning and to devotion to family (including ancestors); peace; justice; influenced the traditional culture of China) Confucianism as the state philosophy and code of ethics for his empire.
		Emperor Wu dispatched his envoy (additional info and facts about Zhang Qian) Zhang Qian in 139 BC to seek an alliance with the (additional info and facts about Yuezhi) Yuezhi of modern Uzbekistan.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/e/em/emperor_wu_of_han.htm (777 words)

	Ancient China: The Former Han, 206 BC-25 AD
		In Han government, the emperor was the supreme ruler; all authority resided ultimately in the emperor.
		Han Wu Ti Perhaps the greatest and most powerful of the Han emperors was Han Wu Ti, who came to power in 141 BC at the age of sixteen and ruled for fifty-four years, the second longest reign in Chinese history.
		Han Wu Ti is generally regarded as the strongest and most vigorous of the Chinese emperors.
	www.wsu.edu /~dee/CHEMPIRE/FORMHAN.HTM (1115 words)

	Confucianism - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Debated during the Warring States Period and forbidden during the short-lived Qin dynasty, Confucianism was chosen by Han emperor Han Wu Di and used as a political system and a kind of state religion.
		After the short and violent dynasty of Qin, Liu Bang founded the Han dynasty and, soon after, the Emperor Han Wu Di decided that China was a confucianist state and launched the examination system.
		After the Qin dynasty was overthrown by the Han, there was the monumental task of recreating all of the knowledge that was destroyed.
	open-encyclopedia.com /Confucianism (4343 words)

	A Marriage in Music <196> Wu Han and Finckel
		Wu Han explains that the business aspects of their CD production are simple.
		Once the music is taped, says Wu Han, the cost of pressing a single CD is less than $2, depending on the number of pages in the accompanying booklet, the use of color, and the graphic design.
		Wu Han mulls over whether the intimacy and clarity of her recordings with Finckel can be replicated with other artists.
	www.princetoninfo.com /199806/80624p06.html (1722 words)

	Wu Yi Cha Wang Da Hong Pao Tea - TeaSpring.com
		Wu Yi Cha Wang Da Hong Pao is produced using a special processing technique that was invented in 1985 by the Head of Wu Yi Tea Research and Development Center, Mr Chen De Hua.
		Even the tea farm (Jiu Qu Xi Pan Wu Yi Shan City Tea Research and Development Center tea farm) is carefully engineered to imitate the environment where the original Da Hong Pao tea bushes grow.
		Wu Yi Cha Wang Da Hong Pao is processed using high-fire finish and requires a year of aging to allow its fire-character to diminish.
	www.teaspring.com /Wu-Yi-Cha-Wang-Da-Hong-Pao.asp (289 words)

	Han Dynasty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The cause of this invasion was that the chief of the feudal state of Han was suspected of disloyalty, and was driven to cast his lot with the northern tribes.
		The usurpation of Wang Mang [Frederick-Gorman]: The cause of the downfall of the Han Dynasty is to be traced to the ambition of its imperial women.
		The fact that Emperor Wu caused the mother of his son to be put to death before he appointed him heir, is sufficient to show that the interference of an empress dowager in affairs of state had long been a matter to be dreaded.
	worldclass.net /China/han.htm (3479 words)

	Zhuang 04 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Lü petitioned the Wu emperor to use troops and was warned that Shi Hui, after all, had substantial claim to the post and many local supporters.
		Han Chinese officials saw grants of authority to local aboriginal leaders as a means of extending their own authority in a gradual fashion.
		However, it is clear that many of the struggles in the region come from other Han kingdoms, or are due to the defection of local administrators, or attacks by one region upon another as local princes attempted to increase their power at the expense of other Han Chinese.
	mcel.pacificu.edu /as/resources/zhuang/zhuang4.htm (5904 words)

	David Finckel, cello; Wu Han, piano (Saint Paul Sunday)
		David Finckel and Wu Han's repertoire spans virtually the entire literature for cello and piano, with an equal emphasis on the classics and the contemporaries.
		David Finckel and Wu Han are regular members of the distinguished teaching faculties of the Isaac Stern Chamber Music Encounters at Carnegie Hall and at the Jerusalem Music Center.
		WU HAN began her musical studies at the age of nine, and within a few years took first prizes in all the major competitions in Taiwan.
	saintpaulsunday.publicradio.org /artists/finckel_hanBIO.htm (916 words)

	Wu Han 3 Biographies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Wu Han’s international tours have led her to England, Germany, Austria, Spain, Denmark, Japan, and to her native Taiwan, and she appears regularly at the summer festivals of Aspen, Santa Fe, Chamber Music Northwest, and Caramoor.
		Wu Han is a frequent collaborator with many of today’s finest musicians and ensembles, including the Borromeo, St. Lawrence, and Emerson String Quartets.
		Wu Han also maintains an active teaching schedule at the Aspen Music Festival and has been a regular faculty member of the Isaac Stern International Chamber Music Workshop at Carnegie Hall and the Jerusalem Music Center.
	www.artistled.com /html/wh_bios.htm (1109 words)

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		If Wu Han had been denounced in public in late 1964, he would not have become the prime target for the Maoists a year later; and Deng Tuo and the Beijing Municipal Party Committee would have encountered serious political trouble in 1964 instead of in 1965.
		Encouraged by Hu Qiaomu, Wu Han, who was a distinguished scholar on the Ming dynasty, published a number of articles about Hai Rui in the summer and fall of 1959.
		It must be noted that in their historical content, Wu Han's essays and plays of 1959-1960 had nothing to do with the attack on and the subsequent dismissal of Marshal Peng Dehuai at the Lushan Conference in August 1959.
	mcel.pacificu.edu /aspac/papers/scholars/yick/yick.htm (7505 words)

	Emperor Wu of Han China (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Emperor Wu of Han China in the news
		Emperor Wu of Han China (漢武帝, pinyin: Hàn Wŭdì, Wade-Giles.
		Han Wu-ti;) (156 BC - March 29, 87 BC), personal name Liu Che, was the sixth emperor of the Chinese Han Dynasty, ruling from 141 BC to 87 BC.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/E/Emperor-Wu-of-Han-China.htm (237 words)

	The Bushnell \| Webster Classical Series continues with David Finckel and Wu Han
		About David Finckel and Wu Han Pianist Wu Han is a former graduate student of Hartford's Hartt School of Music where she won a competition to perform with the Emerson String Quartet of which cellist David Finckel was a member.
		Han went on to perform with several members of the quartet, but her collaboration with Finckel proved to be more significant as they married in 1985.
		Following the success of the Beethoven disc, David Finckel and Wu Han were invited to perform as part of the inaugural Free for All at Town Hall series in New York in June 2003.
	www.bushnell.org /index.cgi/9599 (625 words)

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		As the Han histories reveal, one of the preoccupations of the rulers was relations with the nomads to their north (occupying approximately the territory of current Mongolia and the Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region), known in the sources as the Xiongnu (Hsiung-nu, Hsiung-nu).
		The New-year audience of 51 was to be one of signal honour, as marked by the submission of one of the principal potentates of Eastern Asia, and the ceremonial arrangements were on a corresponding scale.
		The Han succeeded, and in the time of the Emperor Wu-ti, the babarians on all sides were invaded, the dignity of the empire was extended, and Chang K'ien first opened up the way into the Western regions.
	depts.washington.edu /uwch/silkroad/texts/hantxt1.html (19868 words)

	ipedia.com: Emperor Wu of Han China Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Emperor Wu of Han China was the sixth emperor of the Chinese Han Dynasty.
		Emperor Wu of Han China (漢武帝, pinyin: Hàn wŭ dì, Wade-Giles.
		Han Wu-ti; 157 BC - 87 BC) was the sixth emperor of the Chinese Han Dynasty.
	www.ipedia.com /emperor_wu_of_han_china.html (167 words)

	Han-yang -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Located on the right bank of the Han Shui (river) at its confluence with the Yangtze, opposite Han-k'ou, it is the westernmost of the three cities of the Wu-han (q.v.) conurbation (Han-k'ou, Han-yang, Wu-ch'ang).
		The Han Shui rises in the Shen-ch'iung Shan (mountains), part of the Mi-t'sang Shan in the north of Ning-ch'iang County in the extreme southwest of Shensi Province.
		Located on the left bank of the Han Shui (river) at its confluence with the Yangtze, it is the largest of the three Wu-han (q.v.) cities (Han-k'ou, Han-yang, and Wu-ch'ang).
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9039106?tocId=9039106 (811 words)

	Han Wu Shen; Quent Cordair Fine Art
		Han Wu Shen began painting in June of 1970.
		The album is edited by the Central Art Academy, a Chinese authoritative artistic institution, by the Association of Artists of China, Academy of Chinese Paintings, Chinese Art Academy among others.
		Han Wu Shen held the position of professional oil-painting artist at the Wuhan Art Academy before immigrating to the United States in 2003.
	www.cordair.com /shen (439 words)

	Torg: Wu Han (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Wu Han was first encountered, at a distance and once removed, at a digging operation he was running in the Nile.
		The two fought in a martial arts duel, which ended when Wu Han was knocked out of the blimp.
		Wu Han was later sent as an envoy to Mogaba Nar, but it turned out he had sent an automaton copy of himself instead.
	www.lpl.arizona.edu /~dddawson/Torg/NPCs/wuhan.html (314 words)

	Wu Han (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Pianist Wu Han’s popularity with audiences worldwide has made her one of today’s most talked-about classical artists.
		Wu Han’s career has already taken her to many of the world’s most prestigious venues, including Wigmore Hall in London; Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and The 92nd Street Y in New York; the Kennedy Center and Library of Congress in Washington, DC.
		Wu Han’s international tours have led her to England, Germany, Austria, Spain, Denmark, Japan, and to her native Taiwan, where she played in a nationally televised concert for former President Lee Teng-Hui.
	www.amppr.org /mpc42wuhan.html (189 words)

	David Finckel And Wu Han Will Premiere Auerbach Sonata At UI
		Cellist David Finckel and pianist Wu Han return to the University of Iowa for a three-day residency, concluding with a Hancher Auditorium-sponsored all-Russian concert at 8 p.m.
		Finckel and Wu Han are partners in every respect -- as a married couple with a child, as business colleagues and as musicians.
		As the audiophile "indie" rebels of classical recording, Finckel and Wu Han also managed to end-run the traditional corporate distribution system, marketing their CDs not in stores but through a site on the World Wide Web -- http://www.artistled.com -- through a toll-free phone number -- 1-888-ArtLedCD, and at their concerts.
	www.uiowa.edu /~ournews/2003/february/020303finckel.html (1060 words)

	China and Inner Asia Sessions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		By reexamining the pictorial wall carvings at the Wu family cemetery in the contexts of tomb architecture, ritual practice, and workshop organization, this panel seeks to reconfigure the study of Eastern Han tomb and shrine decoration.
		Proposed is a reconstruction for the site layout and order of the Wu structures that presents a new reading of the pictorial carvings corresponding to a sequence of two front two-bay altars and one rear, one-bay ancestral shrine arranged facing north and ending with the unexcavated family tumulus in the south.
		The Han dynasty historian Sima Qian identified a land use division in the Shang and Zhou eras between a southern agricultural zone and a northern mixed agricultural and pastoral nomadic ("semi-agricultural/ semi-pastoral") zone along a line from Longmen (today’s Shaanxi and Shanxi provinces) and Jieshi, in today’s Hebei Province.
	www.aasianst.org /absts/2002abst/China/sessions.htm (17171 words)

	Encyclopedia: Emperor Wu of Han China (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		–March 29, 87 BC), personal name Liu Che, was the sixth emperor of the Chinese Han Dynasty, ruling from 141 BC to 87 BC.
		A military compaigner, Han China reached its greatest expansion under his reign, spanning from Kyrgyzstan in the west, Northern Korea in the Northeast, to Northern Vietnam in the south.
		Mother: concubine of Emperor Jing, from the Wang (王) family, who became empress consort in 150 BC, and then empress dowager in 141 BC.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Emperor-Wu-of-Han-China (415 words)

	After Han, Ancient Chinese cast coins - Calgary Coin Gallery
		He ruled through a puppet Han emperor whom, in AD 220, he forced to abdicate in favor of his son Ts'ao-pei, who immediately changed the name of the dynasty to WEI.
		The Wu appear to have been the strongest of the Three Kingdoms, as they survived for 15 years after both Wei and Northern Han had been overrun by the Chin.
		Using the name Liang Wu Ti, general Hsiao Yen was an able ruler but at his death in AD 549 at the age of 86, there was no able successor and Liang was thrown into anarchy.
	www.calgarycoin.com /cast2.htm (1518 words)

	A&L Performing Arts News Release - 2000-2001 Season
		Wu Han came to study music in the United States after taking first place awards in every major music competition in Taiwan.
		About Couple, the work he wrote for David Finckel and Wu Han, which follows Schumann in their UCSB concert program, Bruce Adolphe writes, “‘Duo’ or ‘Duet’ does not begin to communicate the intricacy of the relationship between the two musicians for whom I wrote this piece.
		David Finckel and Wu Han came together musically shortly after Wu Han arrived in the United States from Taiwan to study at the Hartt School of Music, where the Emerson was quartet-in-residence.
	www.artsandlectures.ucsb.edu /archive/2000-2001/pr/finckel.htm (894 words)

	classical music - andante - wu han and david finckel launch san jose-area chamber festival
		Pianist Wu Han and cellist David Finckel are launching a chamber music festival in Atherton, California, the San Jose Mercury News reports.
		The pilot festival is funded by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, which found in a study that the region, still reeling from the loss of the San Jose Symphony, is lacking a top-level summer classical music event.
		The husband-and-wife team of Wu Han and Finckel will serve as artistic directors.
	andante.com /article/article.cfm?id=17916&highlight=1&timeline=1&... (387 words)

	Emperor Wudi of Han
		Emperor Wu, namely Liuche, was the sixth emperor of the Western Han Dynasty (206 BC - 24 AD).
		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 (333 words)

	News & Events \| Hartt Presents Emerson String Quartet Cellist David Finckel and Pianist Wu Han
		Finckel and Han are a duo whose individual talents combine to bring a new level of artistry and excitement to recital stages worldwide.
		For three seasons, Finckel and Han served as co-artistic directors of SummerFest La Jolla, an internationally acclaimed chamber music festival, where they programmed and directed concerts, symposia, workshops and multidisciplinary events.
		Both Finckel and Han teach at the Isaac Stern Chamber Music Workshops in Israel, in Japan and in New York at Carnegie Hall, as well as privately at the Aspen Music Festival during the summer.
	www.hartford.edu /newsevents/releases/details.asp?id=182 (381 words)

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