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	Yongle Emperor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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.
		The Yongle Emperor is buried in the Changling (長陵) tomb, the central and largest mausoleum of the Ming Dynasty Tombs.
		Emperor Yongle was born Zhu Di on May 2nd, 1360 (mother unknown) to a monk and future emperor of the Ming Dynasty.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yongle_Emperor_of_China (2023 words)

	Encyclopedia: Yongle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		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.
		Yongle was in a life-long pursuit of power, prestige, and glory.
		Yongle's economic, educational, and military reforms provided unrivaled benefits for the people, but his despotic style of government gave them no room to breathe.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Yongle (1975 words)

	Newswise
		From 1402 to 1424, Yongle not only collected and preserved the riches of Chinese culture, but he also looked outward, establishing diplomatic and trade relations with foreign nations and launching six large-scale expeditions to explore the world.
		Yongle needed the support of his Confucian court to maintain power, but in order to fulfill his desire for expansion and exploration, he had to ensure they didn't gain too much control.
		Yongle assembled his top scholars into a Grand Secretariat, a group whose specific responsibilities included advising the emperor, helping him draft decrees and formulate policy.
	www.newswise.com /articles/view?id=YONGLE.UAR (897 words)

	Yongle Encyclopedia [Definition] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Yongle Encyclopedia or Yongle Dadian (永樂大典) was commissioned by the Chinese Ming Dynasty The Ming Dynasty (Chinese: 明朝; Pinyin: míng cháo) was the ruling dynasty of China from 1368 to 1644, though claims to the Ming throne (now collectively called the Southern Ming) survived until 1662.
		During the rule of Mongols, there were strong feelings against the rule of "the foreigners" among the populace, which finally led to a peasant revolt that pushed the Yuan...
		[click for more] emperor Yongle 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.
	www.wikimirror.com /Yongle_Encyclopedia (1392 words)

	Yongle Encyclopedia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Yongle Encyclopedia or Yongle Dadian (永樂大典) was commissioned by the Chinese Ming Dynasty emperor Yongle in 1403.
		It is the world's earliest and largest known general encyclopedia.
		Some think that the Encyclopedia in fact disappeared at the death of Jiajing, having being taken by the emperor to his grave, and they believe that it will yet be found hidden in the tomb complex of Yongling.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yongle_Encyclopedia (397 words)

	Kiriyama Prize - Winners & Finalists - 2001 Nonfiction Finalist
		Emperor Yongle, who reigned from 1402 to 1424, was either the second or the third ruler of the Ming Dynasty, depending on who did the counting.
		Tsai then flashes back to the formative years leading up to Yongle's successional struggle, years which saw his childhood upbringing in the original Ming capital of Nanjing, his early adulthood on military campaigns and as prince of the Beijing region, and his festering disappointment at being bypassed as successor.
		Yongle was not without his faults and failures, as Tsai does not hesitate to point out.
	www.kiriyamaprize.org /winners/finalists/2001/non/2001nf_final_tsai_rev.shtml (618 words)

	Yongle Palace - Shanxi Province travel guide - China travel guide, Shanxi China travel services, Shanxi tours
		The palace is located in Longquan (Dragon Spring) Village, 3 kilometers north of the county seat of Rui-xian.
		The palace was originally built as a Taoist temple in memory of Lu Dongbin, one of the eight immortals in Chinese mythology.
		It is renowned for its mural paintings which are considered treasures of art in China as valuable as the frescoes of Dunhuang.
	www.chinaplanner.com /shanxi/sha_yole.htm (141 words)

	In Search of the Yongle Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Yongling, the second largest next only to the Changling Tomb among the 13 Ming Tombs, was built when the Ming Dynasty reached the height of its national strength.
		According to Huang Runhua, a research fellow in the Rare Book Preservation Sector of the National Library, the copied edition of the encyclopedia was kept in the Imperial Academy of the Ming Dynasty, where some of the volumes were stolen by officials of the Qing Dynasty in addition to those looted by the foreign armies.
		Qi said the Yongling Tomb, which used to be open to visitors, is now kept under closed management, monitored by people day and night and equipped with a lightning conductor.
	www.china.org.cn /Beijing-Review/Beijing/BeijingReview/2000Apr/bjr2000-14e-13.htm (1476 words)

	L'imperatore Yongle - Dinastia Ming
		Yongle merita di essere annoverato tra i più grandi sovrani, perché il suo nome resta strettamente legato alla città di Pechino, che gli deve molto.
		Yongle fece anche ampliare i laghi che sono disposti a rosario immediatamente a ovest di tale complesso.
		Durante il regno di Yongle, la Cina riacquistò i confini dell'epoca Yuan e si estese in buona parte dell'attuale Vietnam (Annam del nord e Tonchino).
	www.tuttocina.it /Tuttocina/storia/yongle.htm (787 words)

	Mings Tombs
		The guards are 12 human figures representing the civil and military dignities and officials, 12 pairs of animals, half-standing, half-sitting, are said to change guard at midnight.
		Yongle made changes that many historians mark as being the second phase of the Ming Dynasty.
		Yongle is responsible for moving the capital city from Nanjing to Beijing.
	homepage.mac.com /awalter/Personal124.html (360 words)

	Primary Source: Zheng He Inscription
		From the third year of Yongle (1405) till now we have seven times received the commission of ambassadors to countries of the western ocean.
		Therefore we have made manifest the virtue of the goddess on stone and have moreover recorded the years and months of the voyages to the barbarian countries and the return in order to leave (the memory) for ever.
		In the nineteenth year of Yongle (1421) commanding the fleet we conducted the ambassadors from Hulumosi (Ormuz) and the other countries who had been in attendance at the capital for a long time back to their countries.
	www.hist.umn.edu /hist1012/primarysource/source.htm (1219 words)

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		Yongle was the force behind the strengthening of the Chinese navy and instituted major reforms in the empire.
		It was in 1421 that Yongle sent the famous fleet led by Zheng He, that was said to have discovered the new world.
		Yongle died in 1424, and his son, who became the Emperor Ren (Hongze Emperor), only reigned a year before he died, but long enough to allow the fleet to fall into lethargy.
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	Yongle Emperor - China History Forum, online chinese history forum
		The Yongle Emperor of China was the third ruler in the Ming Dynasty, from 1403 to 1424.
		Yongle Emperior also didn't inherit the empire from his father (Zhu Hongwu), in fact, he took it from his nephew.
		Yongle slaughtered anyone who was even remotely related to the scholar including all his students.
	www.chinahistoryforum.com /index.php?showtopic=784&st=0 (2135 words)

	Imperial Elegance - Chinese Ceramics from Asia Society's Rockefeller Collection (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Yongle era is famed for the smooth, white glaze seen on this ewer.
		The Yongle emperor, the third emperor of the Ming dynasty, took such pride in this white glazed porcelain that he even erected a white porcelain brick-faced pagoda at Nanjing.
		Dishes of this type, noticeably thinner than the majority of porcelains produced during the reign of Yongle, are known as eggshell porcelain.
	www.asiasociety.org /arts/imperialelegance/imperialtaste.html (1145 words)

	Chinese Architecture: Forbidden City, Beijing
		When he tried to centralize authority by limiting the power of the provincial nobles, they rebelled and rallied around General Yongle, the Emperor's uncle and the commander of the powerful northern army.
		Yongle had designs on the throne and soon gathered a powerful force, marching south to the southern capital at Nanjing.
		Yongle was much more comfortable with the plains of northern China, where his loyal forces were concentrated.
	www.orientalarchitecture.com /beijing/FORBIDDEN.htm (617 words)

	The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Special Exhibitions: Defining Yongle: Imperial Art in Early Fifteenth-Century China (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Yongle emperor has been revered—and at times reviled—as one of the most powerful and effective rulers of the Ming dynasty (1368–1644).
		Paintings, sculptures, textiles, ceramics, and other media produced during the Yongle emperor's reign were defined by an imperial aesthetic that influenced Chinese taste until the end of the eighteenth century.
		Diplomatic and economic relations between China and Islamic centers such as the Mamluk Empire (1260–1526), based in Egypt and Syria, are reflected in the introduction of new shapes and motifs in porcelain as well as the development of new techniques.
	www.metmuseum.org /special/yongle/yongle_more.htm (460 words)

	Paramount Magic Store. YONGLE PALACE MURALS
		The murals at the Yongle Palace, a famous Taoist monastery built in the 14th Century in Ruicheng, Shanxi Province of China, at the flourishing stage of Taoism, art, one Of the most Outstanding examples of Taoist painting in China.
		The Yongle Palace Murals has over 100 full colour plates of the main buildings and the murals, with captions describing the contents of the murals and their artistic characteristics.
		Built it) the 14th Century, it was originally situated in the town of Yongle on the batik of the Yellow River.
	www.paramountmagic.com /pd_yongle_palace.cfm (340 words)

	The mystery of Zhu Yunwen - Chinese-forums.com
		The new Yongle emperor claimed that Zhu Yunwen and his wife's remains were found, but a claim made by an usurper is difficult to substantiate.
		Throughout the Yongle reign, people reported sightings of Zhu Yunwen, much like how some people in the US like to report sightings of Elvis Presley.
		I got to know Yongle in 大钟寺, which is located on the 3rd ring road of Beijing, northside.
	www.chinese-forums.com /showthread.php?p=48536#post48536 (508 words)

	timeflash 1400
		May be one of the earliest Asian attempts was the Yongle Dadian.
		The Yongle Dadian, also called encyclopedia Maxima, was compiled between A.D. 1403 - 1408 in the Ming Dynasty period (1368-1644), containing 22,877 volumes in 11,095 books.
		Much of the Yongle Dadian was destroyed during foreign invasions or internal fights.
	www.thocp.net /timeline/timeflashes/tf_1403.htm (498 words)

	[Wikitech-l] 2u server delivered! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		New machines yongle, maurus, rabanus, and perhaps will have been added to the apache cluster.
		If DNS isn't quite updated: 207.142.131.237 yongle yongle.wikimedia.org 207.142.131.238 maurus maurus.wikimedia.org 207.142.131.239 rabanus rabanus.wikimedia.org 207.142.131.243 will will.wikimedia.org We apparently now know how to get DMA working on those SATA drives, thanks the combination of a BIOS tweak and Ricky Beam's magical kernel concoctions.
		Tim's updated the dormant parser cache in 1.3 with memcached support, which will give us a great way to fill up the memory on those new machines with pre-parsed HTML and save a lot of unnecessary re-rendering.
	mail.wikipedia.org /pipermail/wikitech-l/2004-May/022543.html (165 words)

	Bloomberg.com: Asia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Yongle plans to raise as much as $1 billion selling shares in the U.S. and Hong Kong next year, the mainland's Economic Observer reported today, citing Chairman Chen Xiao.
		Yongle, which competes with Beijing Guomei Electronic Appliances Co. and Suning Appliance Chain Store Co., plans to more than double its revenue to 22 billion yuan this year and 45 billion yuan in 2005, from 10 billion last year, according to a development strategy posted on the company's Web site.
		Yongle, which controls more than half the market in its home city, plans to boost its number of stores to 350 next year, from 100 in 2003, as it expands into the Pearl River Delta region and other markets in China's south, the company said.
	quote.bloomberg.com /apps/news?pid=10000080&refer=asia&sid=azSjLJYXVi40 (540 words)

	The Forbidden City: Feng Shui Resources at Dragon Gate (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Yongle moved his court to the newly constructed palace in 1421.
		The architecture of the Imperial Palace was heavily influenced by the practice of Feng Shui, an ancient Chinese geomancy.
		A famous astrologer, Liu Bowen had drawn a blueprint of the new palace to Yongle to illustrate the vital connections between the palace and parts of the body.
	www.dragon-gate.com /resources/articles/display.asp?id=54&pg=1 (514 words)

	Ming Dynasty - China History - China
		Hongwu was succeeded by his grandson, but he was soon usurped by his uncle Chengzu, a younger son of Hongwu, who ruled as the Emperor Yongle from 1403 to 1424 and was responsible for moving the capital back to Beijing.
		Yongle Emperor of ChinaYongle Emperor strenuously tried to extend China's influence beyond her borders by encouraging other rulers to send ambassadors to China to present tribute.
		Yongle was also very active and very competent as an administrator, but an array of bad precedents was established.
	www.famouschinese.com /virtual/Ming_Dynasty (3434 words)

	Yongle Encyclopedia article - Yongle Encyclopedia Chinese Ming Dynasty Yongle 1403 Ming Dynasty Encyclopedia 1408 - ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Two thousand scholars worked on the project, incorporating eight thousand texts from ancient times up to the early Ming Dynasty.
		Gujin tushu jicheng, a later large Chinese encyclopedia made in the early Qing Dynasty
		Yongle Encyclopedia article - Yongle Encyclopedia definition - what means Yongle Encyclopedia
	www.what-means.com /encyclopedia/Yongle_Encyclopedia (376 words)

	CHRONOLOGY - MING DYNASTY 1368-1644
		The third emperor of the Ming dynasty was Yongle (1403-24).
		They were led by the eunuch admiral, Zhenghe, a Muslim from Yunnan who became a trusted officer in Emperor Yongle's court and an influential diplomat.
		Zhenghe's expeditions was called "signs of fiscal madness" while other advisors, steeped in Confucian ethics, argued that merchants accompanying Zhenghe were "parasites'' who wanted to make money out of others and use sea trade as a way to avoid taxes imposed by the towns.
	www.gotheborg.com /chronology/ming.shtml (998 words)

	Conference & Course Reports (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Yongle Dadian is one of the largest and most significant biblio-graphical undertakings in any civilisation.
		Later that evening, I was awakened by a telephone call from her with the instruction that at no less an occasion than the opening ceremony of the Conference, I was to present the CD to the Director of NLC immediately after his opening speech.
		Yongle Dadian, none sent a representative except for Cornell, whose delegate was Thomas Hahn, a German.
	www.lib.ox.ac.uk /staff/training/reports-17.htm (5516 words)

	Articles - Ming Dynasty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Yongle Emperor strenuously tried to extend China's influence beyond her borders by encouraging other rulers to send ambassadors to China to present tribute.
		The Chinese armies reconquered Annam and blocked Mongol expansionism, while the Chinese fleet sailed the China seas and the Indian Ocean, cruising as far as the east coast of Africa.
		Hongwu was succeeded by his son, but the latter was soon usurped by Cheng Zu, who ruled as the Emperor Yongle from 1403 to 1424 and responsible for moving the capital to Beijing).
	www.gaple.com /articles/Ming_Dynasty (3097 words)

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