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	Yang Guifei - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Yang Guifei (Traditional Chinese: 楊貴妃 "Secondary-consort Yang") (June 1, 719 — July 15, 756), born Yang Yuhuan (楊玉環), was one of the Four Beauties of ancient China.
		She was killed (together with her sisters and her cousin Yang Guozhong) because the raged Imperial bodyguard troops were convinced that the Rebellion of Anshi was ultimately the fault of the Yang family.
		Yang was born in Yongle (永樂), Pu Prefecture (蒲州) with an ancestry in Huaying (華陰), Hongnong (弘農) (in Shaanxi) to Yang Xuanyan (楊玄琰), the sihu (司戶), a finance and food official, in Shu Prefecture (蜀州).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yang_Kuifei (838 words)

	Yang Guifei
		Yang Yuhuan, later to become Yang Guifei (713-756), was one of the few women whose beauty has caused the downfall of monarchs and nations.
		Yang Yuhuan was the daughter of Yang Xuanyan, a census official in Sichuan.
		Amidst protestations from his son, Xuanzong took Yang to be his own concubine, and she grew to wield enormous influence over the emperor, who began neglecting matters of state to spend time with her.
	www.chinaculture.org /gb/en_aboutchina/2003-09/24/content_22669.htm (439 words)

	Yang - Indopedia, the Indological knowledgebase
		Yang is the one of the two opposing forces in Chinese philosophy, it associates with the bright Sun, represents masculine nature.
		Yang is the transliteration of Chinese family name 楊, also spelt as Yeung, which means poplar literally.
		Yang Lu-ch'an (楊露禪, 1799-1872), whose family became the most well-known exponents of the Chinese martial art known as T'ai Chi Ch'uan.
	www.indopedia.org /Yang.html (214 words)

	Yang Guifei
		Yang Yuhuan (A.D. 756) is known as one of the four ancient Chinese beauties.
		Historically, Yang Yuhuan was the wife of Prince Shou, the son of Xuanzong Emperor of the Tang dynasty.
		Consequently, as the pair fled from a rebel army, Guifei Yang was forced to hang herself.
	www.wku.edu /~yuanh/China/tales/yangguifei_b.htm (984 words)

	Yang Guifei
		Yang Guifei (Yang Kuei-fey) concubine of the Tang emperor Xuanzong (Hsüan-tsung; 685-762).
		Of humble origins, she is said to have won the favor and passion of the emperor to the extent that he eventually began to neglect state affairs.
		Emperor Xuanzong meets Yang Guifei and is moved both by her resemblance to his dead wife and by her sincerity.
	www.amherst.edu /~pwcaddeau/A21/YangGuifei.html (1185 words)

	Xian Page 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		He was completely enamoured of her, and took to spending all his time in her company to the exclusion of his offical duties.
		A statue of Yang Giefei stands by the lake at the Springs.
		It is said that she was one of the few women in history who, however inadvertently, brought about the downfall of a ruler or a dynasty.
	www.noellepapillon.com /fascinatingchina/Xian02.html (265 words)

	Emperor Xuanzong
		According to Eberhard, "This woman, usually called 'Concubine Yang,' became the heroine of countless stage-plays and stories and even films; all the misfortunes that marked the end of Xuanzong's reign were attributed solely to her" (184).
		While he was controlling these armies in their fight to gain land, he became increasingly distracted by a woman named Yang Yuhuan, later known as Yang Guifei (Yuan).
		At that time, Yang Guifei was the wife of Xuanzong’s son, so he took her for himself and gave his son another wife (Rodzinski 129).
	www.indiana.edu /~ealc100/Group6/Xuanzong.htm (1582 words)

	Japanese Art \| The Chinese Emperor Minghuang and his concubine Yang Guifei, with attendants on a terrace \| F1900.10
		The poem recounts the tragic story of Emperor Xuanzong (reigned 712–56), commonly known as Minghuang, whose excessive love for his beautiful concubine, Yang Guifei (circa 720–56), led to intrigue at court and disorder in the empire.
		Yang Guifei was put to death in 756 during the An Lushan uprising.
		Many Japanese screen paintings of the Momoyama (1573–1615) and early Edo (1615–1868) periods illustrate the story of Minghuang and Yang Guifei with elegant figures in settings that represent an imaginative and idealized image of the Chinese emperor's household.
	www.asia.si.edu /collections/singleObject.cfm?ObjectId=1157 (276 words)

	Department of Chinese and Indonesian Studies, UNSW
		Yang Guifei (719-756 CE) was one of the 'Four Great Beauties' of Chinese history.
		The evolution of her image was widely influenced by the earliest and the most celebrated literary account of her story by the Tang poet Bai Juyi, who in 806 recounted the course of her life, portraying the power of her story – rich in intrigue, romance, and rebellion.
		The scene popularly considered to mark the beginning of Yang Guifei's illustrious career at court, was the famed episode of Yang Guifei at the Bath.
	languages.arts.unsw.edu.au /chinese/events/89rubinstein.html (328 words)

	Yue-June Liang (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		That is, instead of upholding his role as Yang Guifei's father-in-law, he crosses the boundary and becomes her husband.
		Yang Guifei's response to this largess from her lord is especially illuminating.
		Yang Guifei pleads for him to save her, yet he replies weakly, "I cannot even preserve myself." This line suggests the essential irony of Xuanzong's dilemma.
	www-mcnair.berkeley.edu /94BerkeleyMcNairJournal/01_Liang.html (3425 words)

	Yang Guifei
		Yang Yuhuan, later to become Yang Guifei (AD 713-756), was the daughter of Yang Xuanyan, a census official in Sichuan.
		An only child who lost her father early in life, Yang Yuhuan was raised in the household of her uncle, Yang Xuangui.
		Her relatives gained unprecedented influence: her uncle, Xuangui, was made a senior official in the capital; her cousin Yang Guozhong was appointed prime minister; her elder brother, Yangxian became an official of the second rank while her younger brother, Yangqi was given an imperial consort as his wife.
	www.members.tripod.com /~journeyeast/yang_guifei.html (431 words)

	The world's top yang guifei websites
		Yang Guifei (楊貴妃 "Secondary-consort Yang") (June 1, 719- 756), born Yang Yuhuan (楊玉環), was one of the Four Beauties of ancient China.
		She was a consort of Xuanzong of Tang China who was killed (together with her cousin Yang Guozhong) because the angry army was convinced that the Rebellion of Anshi was ultimately the Yangs' fault.
		Yang was born in Yongle (永樂), Pu Prefecture (蒲州) with an ancestry in Huaying (華陰), Hongnong (弘農) (in Shaanxi) to Yang Xuanyan (楊玄琰), the sihu (司戶), a finance and food official, in Shu Prefecture (蜀州).
	www.websbiggest.com /dir-wiki.cfm?cat=yang_guifei&tab=discuss (622 words)

	Very Brief Timeline on Pu Yi
		However, Xuanzong is most known for his love affair with a young woman named Yang Guifei that led to perhaps the most dramatic imperial disaster in Chinese history.
		A distant descendant of the Sui ruling house, Yang Guifei was the wife of one of Xuanzong’s sons when he fell in love with her(Benn 9).
		The troops, blaming Yang Guifei for their problems, mutinied and killed the Chief Minister, then ordered the life of the concubine.
	www.indiana.edu /~ealc100/Group12/xuan.html (1354 words)

	Four Beauties of China - Chinese Culture
		Unfortunately, there was unrest in the country and while the Emperor spent his time thinking about Yang Guifei, his empire was falling apart.
		Yang was blamed for his downfall and the Emperor's men and advisors demanded she be killed or they would no longer protect him.
		He gave into the demands and Yang Guifei sacrificed her life so that the Emperor and the empire might continue.
	www.bellaonline.com /ArticlesP/art29680.asp (623 words)

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		Yang Guifei (Japanese: Yôkihi) was the consort of Emperor Xuanzong (685-792) of the Chinese Tang dynasty.
		The florid impression of the scene is further enhanced by the table decorated with a design of dragons and waves, her sumptuous robes, the tiled floor and the aronia (kaidô) tree behind.
		Yang Guifei was often painted together with peonies, and here the flanking scrolls feature large red, pink, and yellow flowers, with insects hovering around them.
	www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk /compass/ixbin/print?OBJ5317 (276 words)

	Yang Guifei - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Yang Guifei - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Yang Guifei (?-756), famous concubine of Xuanzong, emperor of China's Tang dynasty.
		Daughter of a high official, Yang Guifei was originally...
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Yang_Guifei.html (110 words)

	Yang Guifei vs. Zhao Feiyan
		But Zhao Feiyan 趙飛燕 of the Han is on a par with Yang.
		Yang is the voluptuous, vigorous type, and Zhao is the thin, graceful type.
		There is a saying that “Yang Guifei left behind a stocking; Zhao Feiyan left behind medicine.” Yang's physical vigor was a major component of her beauty, yet Zhao's physical frailty was a major component of her beauty.
	www.east-asian-history.net /textbooks/PM-China/graphics/Ch11/29.htm (602 words)

	Yang Kwei Fei Synopsis - Moviefone
		Perhaps the most notorious concubine in Chinese history, Yang Guifei set a pudgy standard of beauty in her days of glory during the Tang dynasty.
		The Emperor Minghuang was so besotted with the woman that when An Lushan stages his rebellion against the empire, the ruler takes Yang Guifei along with his imperial entourage in an escape to the mountainous area of modern-day Sichuan, and sanctuary of sorts.
		But the concubine had roused the jealousy of the court and unfortunately for her and to the great sorrow of the king, her brother and others among the king's retainers demanded she be strangled to death while they were still in the mountains.
	movies.aol.com /movie/yang-kwei-fei/1080984/synopsis (153 words)

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		When emperor Xuanzong fell under the spell of his favorite concubine Yang, he began to neglect his official duties on a large scale.
		When the posistion of prime minister became vacant due to the death of Primeminister Li Linfu, general An Lushan, a relative of Imperial concubine Yang and Yang Guozhong, a cousin of emperor Xuanzong competed for the position.
		On the trip the soldiers who protected him, forced him to strangulate Yang Guifei whom they saw as the source of the political upheaval that the Tang dynasty had to experience.
	darkwing.uoregon.edu /~inaasim/Foundations/keynotes71.htm (419 words)

	Japanese Art \| Yang Guifei's Abduction \| F1906.45
		However, the image follows closely other paintings that depict Yang Guifei, the beloved concubine of the Tang-dynasty emperor Ming Huang (Xuanzong; reigned 712–50).
		When his enchantment with Yang Guifei caused him to neglect state business, rebel forces captured Yang Guifei and put her to death.
		According to one account, she was unable to sit astride a horse without assistance, and she had to be helped to ride as she was taken away.
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		To restore order and save his empire from rebellious forces intent on deposing him and his consort, he was forced to permit the execution of his beloved Yang Guifei.
		In his despair he dispatched Luo Gongyuan to the Horai Palace in the Land of the Immortals, although it is transformed in Hokkei's print into the Palace of the Moon (where the emperor and his magician had once gone together in search of an elixir of immorality).
		The loving couple Yang Guifei and Xuan Zong were popular tragic subjects in ukiyo-e prints and paintings, often while playing a single flute together (with underlying erotic overtones).
	www.amherst.edu /~pwcaddeau/A21/source/3.htm (359 words)

	Fleeing South - Lu Yu; The Tea Saint & Cha Jing - A2Tea.com
		He became increasingly indulgent literally in "wine, women and song" for Emperor Xuanzong was an avid musician and music composer, while Imperial Concubine Yang Guifei was a passionate dancer and singer.
		Emperor Xuanzong neglected his duty as emperor and left the administration of the imperial court and the power of running his empire to Yang Guifei's cousin brother Yang Guozhong who was a greedy and narrow-minded man, an unpopular official without capability.
		An Lushan's excuses to the Tang people for the war was to get rid of Yang Guozhong and restore order to the imperial court.
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	Huaqing Hot Springs: Xian Tourist Attractions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In popular legend, the Flying Glow Hall was once the place where Yang Guifei would overlook the scenery and cool down her long hair.
		It was the shelter of Empress Dowager Cixi after the Eight-Power Allied Force captured Peking in 1900, and was also the temporary residence of Chiang Kai-shek, the leader of the Chinese Nationalist Party during the world-famous Xian Incidence in 1936.
		Depicting the scene of the feast in which Emperor Xuanzong summoned Yang Guifei, it reflects the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty.
	www.travelchinaguide.com /attraction/shaanxi/xian/huaqing.htm (1036 words)

	Huaqingchi in Xian
		Huaqing Hot Springs (or Huaqing Palace) is famous for the romantic love story of Emperor Xuanzong (685-762) and his concubine Yang Guifei in Tang Dynasty (618-907).
		There are modern fountains in the upper lake and sculpture of Yang Guifei in the lower one.
		Feishuang Hall, in which Emperor Xuanzong and Yang Guifei lived from October to the end of the year, also lies beside the lake.
	www.warriortours.com /cityguides/xian/huaqing_springs/index.htm (340 words)

	Yang : search word
		---- Yang is the transliteration of Chinese family name 楊, also spelt as Yeung, which means poplar literally.
		---- Yang is Experiment 502 in Lilo and Stitch: The Series.
		Knowest thou who I am?' Quoth I, 'No, daughter of Yahya bin Khalid the Barmecide and sister of Ja'afar, saying, 'O my lady, it is no fault of mine if I have been over- love, by giving me access to thee.' She answered, 'No harm shall pleasing to Allah.
	www.searchword.org /ya/yang.html (186 words)

	Chinese Literature - Theatre and opera - Changshengdian é•·ç”æ®¿ "The Hall of Everlasting Life" ...
		After become favorite of Xuanzu, Yang guifei kicks other favorites out of the palace and attracts the hatred of all courtiers, because her relatives obtain honour and high offices.
		The Emperor's generals kill Yang guifei's brother and force her to hang herself.
		After the rebellion was subdues, Emperor Xuanzu could not but think of her beloved favorite night and day.
	www.chinaknowledge.de /Literature/Novels/changshengdian.html (225 words)

	Beijing China Jenny Yang at Beijing china (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Australian - It's the kind of pampering that Yang Guifei must have enjoyed â“ one of China's four great...
		I console myself by remembering that Yang Guifei was plump, drank more than me â“ hence the Beijing Opera...
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	Amazon.com -zShops: Gift-Collectible Silk Beauty Figurine inTraditional Chinese Costume Yang Guifei (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Material: Silk and Satin Size : Whole figurine 10 1/4" (26 cm) Item No. E1- 22 This silk figurine is Yang Guifei, Who is one of...
		This silk figurine is Yang Guifei, Who is one of four famous Chinese ancient beauties This silk figurine is dressed in colorful embriodered Tang Dynasty costume, which is made of top quality Chinese silk and satin.
		It's a wonderful gift for the family and friend, a unique doll collection for doll lover, a beautiful rare ornament for your home.
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	Heritage Image Partnership - The UK's Premier On-Line Image Library
		'The Chinese beauty Yang Guifei', Japan, Edo period, c1800-c1820.
		Yang Guifei sits alone on a Chinese-style throne playing the flute in an exquisite garden of peonies and wisteria against a landscape of mountains and a river fringed with irises.
		Yang was the concubine of the Tang-dynasty emperor Xuanzong and was renowned for her beauty.
	www.heritage-images.com /item?i=0310001018 (170 words)

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