[PDF] Eastern Han Dynasty eBook

Author : Hourly History
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 34,54 MB
Release : 2021-08-31
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Discover the remarkable history of the Eastern Han Dynasty... If the history of the Eastern Han dynasty were limited to the accomplishments of its scholars, scientists, and inventors, it would be a glorious saga of the innovation and creativity of the human mind. Anesthesia was first used during surgical procedures in the years of the Eastern Han emperors, earthquake tremors were measured, and perhaps, most remarkable of all, a process for manufacturing paper was developed by a eunuch of the imperial court. But the imperial court of the Eastern Han is also an account of the abuse of power, the murder of children unfortunate enough to be placed upon the Dragon Throne, the heedless, reckless incompetence of emperors, the malignant ambition of scheming empress dowagers, and the rebellions that arose as ordinary people struggled. The accomplished governing of Emperors Guangwu, Ming, and Zhang established a central authority that expanded China's might and stability. Their less-capable successors-a number of them merely children when they became emperor-left the Chinese people deprived of those benefits which competent government provides. When the last Eastern Han emperor was forced to abdicate, China, no longer united as a single empire, was split into three different regions, each ruled by an ambitious warlord. Discover a plethora of topics such as Wang Mang, the Usurper Return of the Han The Beginning of a Golden Age Emperor Huan and the Corruption of the Eunuchs The Yellow Turbans The Last Han Emperor And much more! So if you want a concise and informative book on the Eastern Han Dynasty, simply scroll up and click the "Buy now" button for instant access!

Author : Mark Edward Lewis
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 15,81 MB
Release : 2010-10-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0674265424

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In 221 BC, the First Emperor of Qin unified the lands that would become the heart of a Chinese empire. Though forged by conquest, this vast domain depended for its political survival on a fundamental reshaping of Chinese culture. With this informative book, we are present at the creation of an ancient imperial order whose major features would endure for two millennia. The Qin and Han constitute the “classical period” of Chinese history—a role played by the Greeks and Romans in the West. Mark Edward Lewis highlights the key challenges faced by the court officials and scholars who set about governing an empire of such scale and diversity of peoples. He traces the drastic measures taken to transcend, without eliminating, these regional differences: the invention of the emperor as the divine embodiment of the state; the establishment of a common script for communication and a state-sponsored canon for the propagation of Confucian ideals; the flourishing of the great families, whose domination of local society rested on wealth, landholding, and elaborate kinship structures; the demilitarization of the interior; and the impact of non-Chinese warrior-nomads in setting the boundaries of an emerging Chinese identity. The first of a six-volume series on the history of imperial China, The Early Chinese Empires illuminates many formative events in China’s long history of imperialism—events whose residual influence can still be discerned today.

Author : Li Shi
Publisher : DeepLogic
Page : pages
File Size : 39,16 MB
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Category : History
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The book is the volume of “The History of Customs in Qin and Han Dynasty” among a series of books of “Deep into China Histories”. The earliest known written records of the history of China date from as early as 1250 BC, from the Shang dynasty (c. 1600–1046 BC) and the Bamboo Annals (296 BC) describe a Xia dynasty (c. 2070–1600 BC) before the Shang, but no writing is known from the period The Shang ruled in the Yellow River valley, which is commonly held to be the cradle of Chinese civilization. However, Neolithic civilizations originated at various cultural centers along both the Yellow River and Yangtze River. These Yellow River and Yangtze civilizations arose millennia before the Shang. With thousands of years of continuous history, China is one of the world's oldest civilizations, and is regarded as one of the cradles of civilization.The Zhou dynasty (1046–256 BC) supplanted the Shang and introduced the concept of the Mandate of Heaven to justify their rule. The central Zhou government began to weaken due to external and internal pressures in the 8th century BC, and the country eventually splintered into smaller states during the Spring and Autumn period. These states became independent and warred with one another in the following Warring States period. Much of traditional Chinese culture, literature and philosophy first developed during those troubled times.In 221 BC Qin Shi Huang conquered the various warring states and created for himself the title of Huangdi or "emperor" of the Qin, marking the beginning of imperial China. However, the oppressive government fell soon after his death, and was supplanted by the longer-lived Han dynasty (206 BC – 220 AD). Successive dynasties developed bureaucratic systems that enabled the emperor to control vast territories directly. In the 21 centuries from 206 BC until AD 1912, routine administrative tasks were handled by a special elite of scholar-officials. Young men, well-versed in calligraphy, history, literature, and philosophy, were carefully selected through difficult government examinations. China's last dynasty was the Qing (1644–1912), which was replaced by the Republic of China in 1912, and in the mainland by the People's Republic of China in 1949.Chinese history has alternated between periods of political unity and peace, and periods of war and failed statehood – the most recent being the Chinese Civil War (1927–1949). China was occasionally dominated by steppe peoples, most of whom were eventually assimilated into the Han Chinese culture and population. Between eras of multiple kingdoms and warlordism, Chinese dynasties have ruled parts or all of China; in some eras control stretched as far as Xinjiang and Tibet, as at present. Traditional culture, and influences from other parts of Asia and the Western world (carried by waves of immigration, cultural assimilation, expansion, and foreign contact), form the basis of the modern culture of China.

Author : Rafe de Crespigny
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 591 pages
File Size : 28,34 MB
Release : 2016-10-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9004325204

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Winner of the 2017 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award The Later Han dynasty, also known as Eastern Han, ruled China for the first two centuries of the Christian era. Comparable in extent and power to the early Roman empire, it dominated east Asia from present-day Vietnam to the Mongolian steppe. Rafe de Crespigny presents here the first full account of this period in Chinese history to be found in a Western language. Commencing with a detailed account of the imperial capital, the history describes the nature of government, the expansion of the Chinese people to the south, the conflicts of scholars and officials with eunuchs at court, and the final collapse which followed the rebellion of the Yellow Turbans and the rise of regional warlords.

Author : Kang-i Sun Chang
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 748 pages
File Size : 30,11 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Chinese literature
ISBN : 9780521855587

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Stephen Owen is James Bryant Conant Professor of Chinese at Harvard University. --Book Jacket.

Author : Kelly Mass
Publisher : Efalon Acies
Page : 45 pages
File Size : 13,25 MB
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Category : History
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The Han dynasty, established by Liu Bang and ruled by the House of Liu from 202 BC to 220 AD, marked China's second imperial era. It succeeded the brief Qin dynasty (221–206 BC) and the chaotic period known as the Chu–Han contention (206–202 BC). The Han dynasty experienced a brief interruption with Wang Mang's Xin dynasty (9–23 AD) before being divided into the Western Han (202 BC – 9 AD) and the Eastern Han (25–220 AD) periods, ultimately giving way to the Three Kingdoms era. Regarded as a pinnacle in Chinese history, the Han dynasty spanned four centuries and profoundly shaped Chinese culture. Its influence persists to this day, evident in the self-identification of the majority ethnic group in China as "Han people," the designation of the Sinitic language as "Han language," and the reference to written Chinese as "Han characters." At the apex of Han society stood the emperor, wielding supreme authority over the empire. While the emperor held the highest position, power was shared with the nobility and appointed ministers, many of whom hailed from the educated gentry class. The Han Empire comprised territories directly governed by the central administration, termed commanderies, alongside semi-autonomous kingdoms inherited from the Qin dynasty. However, following the Rebellion of the Seven States, these kingdoms gradually lost their autonomy.

Author : Craig Benjamin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 16,51 MB
Release : 2018-05-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1107114969

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Introduces a crucial period of world history when the vast exchange network of the Silk Roads connected most of Eurasia.

Author : Muzhou Pu
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 34,95 MB
Release : 2018-06-21
Category : History
ISBN : 1107021170

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This book employs textual and archaeological material to reconstruct the various features of daily life in ancient China.

Author : Wicky W. K. Tse
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 10,1 MB
Release : 2018-06-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 131553231X

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In the Later Han period the region covering the modern provinces of Gansu, southern Ningxia, eastern Qinghai, northern Sichuan, and western Shaanxi, was a porous frontier zone between the Chinese regimes and their Central Asian neighbours, not fully incorporated into the Chinese realm until the first century BCE. Not surprisingly the region had a large concentration of men of martial background, from which a regional culture characterized by warrior spirit and skills prevailed. This military elite was generally honoured by the imperial centre, but during the Later Han period the ascendancy of eastern-based scholar-officials and the consequent increased emphasis on civil values and de-militarization fundamentally transformed the attitude of the imperial state towards the northwestern frontiersmen, leaving them struggling to achieve high political and social status. From the ensuing tensions and resentment followed the capture of the imperial capital by a northwestern military force, the deposing of the emperor and the installation of a new one, which triggered the disintegration of the empire. Based on extensive original research, and combining cultural, military and political history, this book examines fully the forging of military regional identity in the northwest borderlands and the consequences of this for the early Chinese empires.