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Avitus
Avitus , d. 456?, Roman emperor of the West (455-56). He was proclaimed emperor in Gaul with the support of the Visigoths but was deposed by Ricimer . He was elected bishop of Placentia but died soon afterward. ... Read more
mikado
mikado , a former title of the emperor of Japan used chiefly in the English language. ... Read more
Antonines
Antonines , collective name of certain Roman emperors of the 2d cent., namely Antoninus Pius ; his adopted sons, Marcus Aurelius and Verus; and Commodus . ... Read more
Philip
Philip or Philip the Arabian (Marcus Julius Philippus), 204?-249, Roman emperor (244-49). He served under Gordian III against the Persians, instigated the assassination of the emperor, and concluded a peace with Persia. The millennium of Rome was celebrated by him with the splendor of secular g... Read more
Yellow Emperor
Yellow Emperor Mandarin Huangdi, legendary Chinese ruler and culture hero; tradition holds that he reigned from 2697 BC to 2597 BC He is one of the mythical prehistoric emperors who supposedly created the basic elements of Chinese civilization. His wife is said to have developed silk production. ... Read more
emperor
emperor [Lat. imperator =one holding supreme power, especially applied to generals], the sovereign head of an empire. In the Roman republic the term imperator referred to the chief military commander and was used only on the battlefield. It was first used continuously by Julius Caesar and was re... Read more
Decius
Decius (Caius Messius Quintus Decius) , 201-51, Roman emperor (249-51), b. Pannonia. He was sent by Philip (Philip the Arabian) to quell a mutiny, but when the soldiers hailed him as emperor, he marched at their head, defeated and killed Philip near Verona, and accepted the title of emperor, add... Read more
Eusebius of Nicomedia
Eusebius of Nicomedia , d. 342, Christian churchman and theologian, leader of the heresy of Arianism . He was bishop of Nicomedia (330-39) and patriarch of Constantinople (339-42); Eusebius was powerful because of his influence with Roman Emperor Constantine I and particularly with the emperor's so... Read more
Saint Gregory II
Saint Gregory II d. 731, pope (715-31), a Roman; successor of Constantine. When Byzantine Emperor Leo III tried to impose iconoclasm in Italy by an imperial edict, Gregory answered that the emperor could not decide tenets of faith. He was supported by a popular uprising directed at the exarch of ... Read more
Jovian
Jovian (Flavius Claudius Jovianus) , c.331-364, Roman emperor (363-64). The commander of the imperial guard under Julian the Apostate in his Persian campaign, Jovian was proclaimed emperor by the soldiers when Julian was killed. He made a humiliating peace with Shapur II of Persia. He returned... Read more

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Qianlong
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography Qianlong Qianlong (1711-1899) was the emperor of China and an ideal...succeeded by his son, the emperor Yong Zheng (Yung-cheng...1723-35), father of Qianlong. Qianlong's mother...told about the future Qianlong emperor were true, as he was... Read more

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Qianlong
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History Qianlong (or Ch'ien-lung ) (1710–99) QING Emperor of China (1735–95). During his rule China reached its greatest territorial extent with campaigns undertaken in the Turkistan (Xinjiang) region, Annam, Burma, and Nepal. In 1757 Qianlong restricted all foreign traders to Guangzhou (Canton), ... Read more
Qing
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...1644–1912) The last dynasty to rule China. Its emperors were MANCHUS . In 1644 a MING general, Wu Sangui, invited...Bannermen occupied the city and proclaimed their child-emperor ‘Son of Heaven’. Resistance continued for...pressure of the West. Under KANGXI (1654–1722) and ... Read more

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The emperor looks west.(Qianlong emperor's fascination with Western cultures)
Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques; 3/1/2007; ; 700+ words ; The eighteenth-century Qianlong emperor was one of China's greatest...aesthetics of the period. Under the Qianlong emperor, who followed a path set by...than all other mortals, the Qianlong emperor, inspired by European verisimilitude... Read more
The carved rock crystals of Emperor Qianlong.
Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques; 3/1/2000; ; 700+ words ; ...scale until the reign of Qianlong. The scholar and diplomat...1891--1962) noted that Qianlong was probably more responsible...poetry and calligraphy, the Qianlong period pieces in the Crozier collection reveal how the emperor encouraged the production...Qing dynasty in 1644, their emperors ... Read more
Sex in the imperial garden: an unpublished Chinese pillow book, or manual of love-making, in the Kinsey Institute is a remarkable version of a celebrated album without any erotic content painted in 1738 for Emperor Qianlong by the court painter Chen Mei, as Efrat El-Hanany reveals.(Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction)
Magazine article from: Apollo; 3/1/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...made in 1738 for Emperor Qianlong (who reigned from...erotic charm--the Emperor's earthly paradise. Records show that Qianlong commissioned The...1740, mainly under Emperor Yongzheng, and into the beginning of Qianlong's reign. It was... Read more
Splendors of imperial China. (Chinese antiques)
Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques; 3/1/1996; ; 700+ words ; ...acquisitiveness of the Qing emperor Qianlong [ILLUSTRATION FOR...predecessors, the emperors Kangxi (r. 1662-17...r. 1723-1735). Qianlong had started collecting...of sixty years, Qianlong abdicated in 1796, becoming the first emperor in Chinese history... Read more
Antiques.(China and Western world)
Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques; 3/1/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...globe revolve. Letter from the Qianlong emperor to George III of England, 1793...ceremonial kowtow before the mighty Qianlong emperor. Indeed, the emperor was a revelation...confrontations began to arise. The Qianlong emperors famous assertion of Chinese... Read more
New England and the China Trade.(Chinese Export Art at Historic Deerfield)(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques; 5/1/2006; ; 700+ words ; In 1793 the Qianlong emperor of China wrote to George III of England: We possess all things. I set no value on objects strange and ingenious, and have no use... Read more
The best was hotly pursued, securing record prices, but there was little interest in the rest from buyers at the September Asian Art sales in New York.(Market Review)
Magazine article from: Apollo; 11/1/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...At its Chinese art sale on 21 September, for instance, a Qianlong-period zitan-wood three railing, or sage's, bed (luohanchuang...Palace, remodelled in the Italian baroque style by the Emperor Qianlong in 1747 with the aid of Jesuit priests. It would seem that...covers and bearing the six-character mark ... Read more
A Little Chinese Library.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Change; 1/1/2001; ; 106 words ; ...Kong, contains 3,460 works of 4.7 million pages in more than 36,000 volumes compiled from 1773 to 1782 by order of Emperor Qianlong. It deals with the astronomy, geography, science and technology, history, government, politics, economics, philosophy... Read more
Round the auction houses.
Magazine article from: Apollo; 11/1/2003; 573 words ; ...2003 A particular highlight of this sumptuous sales a remarkable Mughal style jade cup from the collection of the Qianlong Emperor. This elegant shuiyu is sculpted in the shape of a shell which, very unusually, tapers into the head of a goose... Read more
Lessons from the past require preservation.(information tech)
Magazine article from: Information Outlook; 11/1/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...Dynasty in China (1644-1911 CE), there was a powerful emperor, Qianlong. He was very interesting--a real Renaissance guy...Then again, it might have been even more powerful if Qianlong hadn't personally reviewed all of China's literary... Read more