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Hanyang
Hanyang , former city, now part (since 1950) of the Wuhan conurbation, E Hubei prov., China, on the right bank of the Han River at its junction with the Chang. It is a heavy industrial center. Hanyang was founded during the Sui dynasty (AD 581-618). It is linked by bridge with Hankou. ... Read more
Jingdezhen
Jingdezhen or Fowliang , city (1994 est. pop. 294,000), NE Jiangxi prov., China, on the Chang River. It is world famous for its fine porcelain, made since the Han dynasty (202 BC-AD 220) from the white clay, kaolin, found near Poyang Lake to the west. Coal is mined in the region. The city reache... Read more
Han
Han , dynasty of China that ruled from 202 BC to AD 220. Liu Pang, the first Han emperor, had been a farmer, minor village official, and guerrilla fighter under the Ch'in dynasty. During the period of civil strife that followed the fall of the Ch'in , he advanced from the Huai River valley, defeate... Read more
Ch'in
Ch'in , dynasty of China, which ruled from 221 BC to 206 BC The word China is derived from Ch'in, the first dynasty to unify the country by conquering the warring feudal states of the late Chou period. King Cheng took the title Shih Huang-ti or Shi Huangdi [ first august emperor ] in 221 BC and ... Read more
Chinese Dynasties
Chinese Dynasties Chinese Dynasties Dynasty Characteristics and History Hsia  c.1994-c.1523 BC Semilegendary Emperor Yu built irrigation channels, reclaimed land. Bronze weapons, chariots, domestic animals used. Wheat, millet cultivat... Read more
Xi'an
Xi'an or Sian , city (1994 est. pop. 2,114,900), capital of Shaanxi prov., China, in the Wei River valley. Situated on the Longhai RR, China's principal east-west line, it is an important commercial and tourism center in a wheat- and cotton-growing area. It has textile and steel mills, food-proc... Read more
Changde
Changde or Changteh , city (1994 est. pop. 336,800), N Hunan prov., China, on the Yuan River. Formerly a treaty port, it is now an administrative center and a storage and shipping point for tung oil, grain, cotton, medicinal herbs, and wood. Manufactures include ceramics, machine tools, textiles... Read more
Wu-ti
Wu-ti , posthumous temple name of the 5th emperor (140 BC-87 BC) of the Han dynasty. Wu-ti [Chin.,=martial emperor] ruled directly through a palace secretariat. During his vigorous reign he incorporated the native states of S China into the empire, drove the nomadic Hsiung-nu out of the Ordos regi... Read more
Three Kingdoms
Three Kingdoms period of Chinese history from 220 to 265, after the collapse of the Han dynasty. The period takes its name from the three states into which China was divided. Wei occupied the north. South of Wei were Shu in the west and Wu in the east. Each of the states steadily expanded, especial... Read more
Chinese art
Chinese art works of art produced in the vast geographical region of China. It the oldest art in the world and has its origins in remote antiquity. (For the history of Chinese civilization, see China .) Early Periods Neolithic cultures produced many artifacts such as painted pottery, bon... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "Han Dynasty"

Han
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Han , dynasty of China that ruled from 202 BC to AD...was eventually reunited under the Sui dynasty. Bibliography: See P. Ku, The History of the Former Han Dynasty (tr., 3 vol., 1938-55); Ssu...
Han Kao-tsu
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...Han Kao-tsu The Chinese emperor Han Kao-tsu (ca. 247-195 B.C.) was the founder of the Former Han dynasty, the first major Chinese dynasty...Liu Chi, the founder of the Former Han dynasty. Little is known of his early years...
Han Wu-ti
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...predecessors in the (Former) Han dynasty had done. In his administration...Emperor Wu came to the throne, the Han dynasty was financially very strong. But...Pan Ku, History of the Former Han Dynasty (3 vols., 1938-1955), is...
Han Fei Tzu
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography Han Fei Tzu Han Fei Tzu (ca. 280-233 B.C...7th century B.C., but it was Han Fei Tzu who developed the precepts...authoritarianism by the Ch'in dynasty. The main source of information on Han Fei's life is a short biography...
Kuan Han-ch'ing
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Kuan Han-ch'ing , c.1240-c.1320, Chinese playwright of the Yüan dynasty. He resided mainly in the capital Ta-tu (Beijing), where he acquired a reputation as a libertine. Of his 63 plays, 21 survive...
Pan Ku
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...At the beginning of the Eastern Han dynasty (25-100) there existed no full...their main theme the history of the Han dynasty. While the Shih-chi was compiled...that had been developed during the Han dynasty. He also compiled an account of...
Wang Mang
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...An official under the former Han dynasty, he took the Han throne and founded...positions, first as an official of the Han dynasty and then as emperor of his own...the government. By this time the Han dynasty was in grave difficulties. There...
Liu Pang
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...ruled as the first emperor of the Han dynasty (206 B.C.-220 A.D.) from...Liu Pang became emperor of the Han dynasty. The rule of Liu Pang laid the...on China. The influence of the Han dynasty was so significant, in fact...
Kuang-wu-ti
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...was the founder of the Later Han dynasty. He reconstituted the civil administration...Hsiu, the founder of the Later Han dynasty (25-220). He was a descendant...psychological basis for the Later Han dynasty. Frugal Economy Kuang-wu-ti...
Chinese Americans
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America ...spoken by over 70 percent of the Han Chinese. The remaining Chinese...C., during the late Shang Dynasty. However, according to recent...eventually replaced by the Han Dynasty (206 B.C.-220 A.D.). The Han emperor firmly established...

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Han dynasty
Book article from: A Dictionary of Buddhism Han dynasty. A period of Chinese history extending from 206 bce to 220 ce during which China was united, prosperous, and (excepting a short period at the middle of the dynasty) stable. It was during this time that Buddhism entered China.
Han
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History Han The Chinese dynasty that ruled from 206 BC until 200 AD with only a brief interruption. During this period the territory was expanded, administration...
China
Book article from: A Dictionary of Buddhism ...x323;ema . With the fall of the Han dynasty in the early 3rd century, interest in...school. China was reunified by the Sui dynasty in 581 bce, but this was quickly toppled by the T'ang dynasty in 618. The T'ang dynasty held power...
Vietnam
Book article from: A Dictionary of Buddhism ...records also indicate that the late Han-dynasty governor of Chiao-chou, Shih...of the masses. The Lý dynasty (1010–1225) was more...dynasties that preceded it. This dynasty was willing to take in many elements...
Three Kingdoms
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...immediately following the end of the HAN dynasty. Three kingdoms, the Wei in the...in the south-east, and the Shu Han in the west, rose and constantly...unified China under the WESTERN JIN dynasty. Many events and legends of this...
Bureaucracy
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas ...had long existed throughout the world. As early as the Han Dynasty (206 b.c.e. – 220 c.e.), Chinese...of the early practical bureaucracies (from the early Han Dynasty bureaucracy to the nascent Prussian state administration...
Histories in China
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions ...ancestors, and precedent produced, as early as the Han dynasty (206 BCE–221 CE), not only Grand Historians...CE) and his son Pan Ku (32–92), in Han shu (History of the Han). In this, they extended the Discourses to include...
mandarin
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...A senior official in imperial China. From the Song dynasty (960 AD), officials were recruited predominantly by examination in the Confucian classics. (Since the HAN dynasty (206 BC) examinations had been used within the civil...
Confucian Classics
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions ...The Five Scriptures taught in the state college of the Han dynasty (from 136 BCE–220 CE) were Shih , Shu...Er Ya . The neo-Confucian philosophers of the Sung dynasty (960–1279) identified a corpus within this...
Tʾien-ming
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions ...right is then granted from Tʾien to the conqueror who establishes the next dynasty. Tʾien-ming was developed further during the Han dynasty, and thereafter it was received by emperors in the Temple of Heaven. It could be...

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Valuable Han Dynasty tomb discovered
Newspaper article from: China Daily; 6/30/2006; 700+ words ; A large scale Western Han Dynasty (206 BC - 25 AD) tomb was discovered...evidence of a typical Western Han Dynasty burial style reserved for a king...Experts who excavated the Mawangdui Han Dynasty Tomb in Changsha said that after...
HAN DYNASTY ART REFLECTS BELIEF IN TWO SOULS
Newspaper article from: Wyoming Tribune-Eagle; 1/23/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...Heaven and Home: Chinese Art of the Han Dynasty from the Sze Hong Collection...B.C.-A.D. 220, or the Han Dynasty. "The objects express their concerns...would need." Otsuka said the Han Dynasty occurred before Buddhism entered...
Pottery pooches a lasting legacy of Han Dynasty
Newspaper article from: China Daily; 9/1/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...wealth of relics dating back to the Han Dynasty (206 BC-AD 220). Of the large...portrait of everyday life in the Han Dynasty. Nanyang, the "southern capital...Archaeologists discovered that in the Han Dynasty tombs in Nanyang - both large and...
"Han Dynasty City" Opens in Xuzhou
Newspaper article from: Xinhua English Newswire; 10/3/1996; 357 words ; ...of its historical TV plays a "Han Dynasty City" in Xuzhou, a famous ancient...east China's Jiangsu Province. Han Dynasty was the second feudal dynasty in...suburbs, the newly-opened "Han Dynasty City" covers an area of 16 hectares...
Cemetery of Western Han Dynasty discovered at Three Gorges
News Wire article from: Xinhua News Agency; 2/14/2004; 394 words ; Cemetery of Western Han Dynasty discovered at Three Gorges CHONGQING...huge cemetery from China's Western Han Dynasty (206 B.C. to 24 A.D.) has been...culture and life patterns in the Western Han Dynasty.
The Earliest West Han Dynasty Royal Mausoleum Unearthed
News Wire article from: Xinhua News Agency; 10/22/2000; 475 words ; ...Bang, the first emperor of the West Han dynasty. Found buried in the pits were over...unearthed. Lu Zhaoying, who specializes in Han dynasty archaeology, said that this mausoleum...understanding royal graves of the West Han dynasty.
New TV Drama About Han Dynasty Emperor's Epics
Newspaper article from: Xinhua English Newswire; 5/22/1999; 328 words ; ...Bang, the first emperor of the Han Dynasty (206 B.C.- A.D.220...series, entitled "Liu Bang of the Han Dynasty", will follow the story of Liu...triumph in establishing the Western Han Dynasty. Co-sponsored by CCTV, Changchun...
Museum of Han Dynasty terra-cotta figures undergoes facelift
News Wire article from: Xinhua News Agency; 9/3/2004; 282 words ; Museum of Han Dynasty terra-cotta figures undergoes facelift...Xinhua) -- A facelift of the museum of Han Dynasty (206 BC.- AD 220) terracotta figures...Some 4,000 terracotta figures from Han Dynasty were discovered in Xuzhou during the...
Wooden Strips dating to Western Han Dynasty unearthed in centralChina
News Wire article from: Xinhua News Agency; 1/17/2004; 437 words ; ...Wooden Strips dating to Western Han Dynasty unearthed in central China CHANGSHA...most famous emperor in the Western Han Dynasty (206 B.C.-24), said Song...in the early days of the Western Han Dynasty," said Song. Discovered at Zoumalou...
Over 10,000 Han Dynasty Coins Found in Central China
News Wire article from: Xinhua News Agency; 8/23/2001; 315 words ; ...recently found a pottery jar full of Han Dynasty (206 B.C.-- 220 A.D...the mintage of literally every Han Dynasty emperor after the Zhaodi emperor...politics, economy and culture of the Han Dynasty, one of the most important periods...