Infamous Chinese Emperors

Author : Tian Hengyu
Publisher : Asiapac Books Pte Ltd
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-14
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9789812299314

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Infamous Chinese Emperors (2010 Edition - EPUB) by Tian Hengyu Pdf

In ancient China, an emperor is regarded as tianzi or "Heaven's son", one who is sent from Heaven to rule the nation and its people. Little wonder that he held sway over the masses and is deemed sacred and inviolate. Literally, a dynasty's rise and fall, and the people's weal and woe, are intimately linked to his calibre and character. Much has been written about the great emperors of China. But what about those rulers who, through their whims and fancies, had the commoners gnash their teeth in grief and hate? Here are 12 stories on China's most notorious emperors—a motley crew of squanderers, murderers, thugs, lechers and idiots swaggering under the holy cloak of a tianzi! Read on and see how they got their just deserts!

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : China
ISBN : 9812294597

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Infamous Chinese Emperors by Anonim Pdf

Author : Tian Hengyu
Publisher : Asiapac Books Pte Ltd
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9789813170186

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Great Chinese Emperors by Tian Hengyu Pdf

This book contains 27 inspiring stories of China’s most well-loved rulers. There were the Three Sage Kings and the Five Legendary Rulers who painstakingly laid the foundation for Chinese civilisation. They were followed by luminaries like Emperor Shihuang of the Qin Dynasty who first unified China, Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty who brought unprecedented prosperity to the land, and Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty who contributed to the progress of the sciences. All these eminent emperors had one thing in common: their love for their people.

Author : Ping Shangguan
Publisher : Wu Zhou Chuan Bo Chu Ban She/ Tsai Fong Books
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : China
ISBN : 7508518101

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Famous emperors in Chinese history. 中国古代皇帝 by Ping Shangguan Pdf

Author : Louise Spilsbury
Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-30
Category : China
ISBN : 1502648245

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The Ancient Chinese by Louise Spilsbury Pdf

This adventurous guide sheds light on the culture of violence and power in Asia during ancient times. Through vivid language and detailed sidebars, young readers will be drawn to all kinds of gory and unsavory topics, including foot binding for young women, the murderous Empress Wu, the deadly search for immortality, and the origins of acupuncture. This narrative grabs readers' attention and will allow them to explore history in a new, exciting way.

Author : Baojun Luan,Bowen Tang
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : China
ISBN : STANFORD:36105016476934

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Tales about Chinese Emperors by Baojun Luan,Bowen Tang Pdf

Author : Victor Cunrui Xiong
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780791482681

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Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty by Victor Cunrui Xiong Pdf

Looking at the life and legacy of Emperor Yang (569–618) of the brief Sui dynasty in a new light, this book presents a compelling case for his importance to Chinese history. Author Victor Cunrui Xiong utilizes traditional scholarship and secondary literature from China, Japan, and the West to go beyond the common perception of Emperor Yang as merely a profligate tyrant. Xiong accepts neither the traditional verdict against Emperor Yang nor the apologist effort to revise it, and instead offers a reassessment of Emperor Yang by exploring the larger political, economic, military, religious, and diplomatic contexts of Sui society. This reconstruction of the life of Emperor Yang reveals an astute visionary with literary, administrative, and reformist accomplishments. While a series of strategic blunders resulting from the darker side of his personality led to the collapse of the socioeconomic order and to his own death, the Sui legacy that Emperor Yang left behind lived on to provide the foundation for the rise of the Tang dynasty, the pinnacle of medieval Chinese civilization.

Author : Chinghua Tang
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781501138775

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The Ruler's Guide by Chinghua Tang Pdf

An English-language translation of core principles by the seventh-century emperor popularly credited as China's greatest historical leader is comprised of his dialogues with his wisest advisors and critics and covers strategies in the arenas of government, business, the military, athletics, philanthropy and parenting. --Publisher.

Author : Jung Chang
Publisher : Random House Canada
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307363121

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Empress Dowager Cixi by Jung Chang Pdf

From the beloved, internationally bestselling author of Wild Swans, and co-author of the bestselling Mao: The Unknown Story, the dramatic, epic biography of the unusual woman who ruled China for 50 years, from concubine to Empress, overturning centuries of traditions and formalities to bring China into the modern world. A woman, an Empress of immense wealth who was largely a prisoner within the compound walls of her palaces, a mother, a ruthless enemy, and a brilliant strategist: Chang makes a compelling case that Cixi was one of the most formidable and enlightened rulers of any nation. Cixi led an intense and singular life. Chosen at the age of 12 to be a concubine by the Emperor Xianfeng, she gave birth to his only male heir who at four was designated Emperor when his father died in 1861. In a brilliant move, the young woman enlisted the help of the Emperor's widow and the two women orchestrated a coup that ousted the regents and made Cixi sole Regent. Untrained and untaught, the two studied history and politics together, ruling the huge nation from behind a curtain. When her boy died, Cixi designated a young nephew as Emperor, continuing her reign till her death in 1908. Chang gives us a complex, riveting portrait of Cixi through a reign as long as that of her fellow Empress, Victoria, whom she longed to meet: her ruthlessness in fighting off rivals; her curiosity to learn; her reliance on Westerners who she placed in key positions; and her sensitivity and desire to preserve the distinctiveness of China's past while overturning traditions (she, as Chang reveals--not Mao, as he claimed--banned footbinding) and exposing its culture to western ideas and technology.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : China
ISBN : 9812294511

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Great Chinese Emperors by Anonim Pdf

Throughout the history of China, many rulers had come and gone. Who are the ones still standing tall in the annals of history as a result of their outstanding contributions and awe-inspiring character?

Author : Xiran Jay Zhao
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-10
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781665900720

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Zachary Ying and the Dragon Emperor by Xiran Jay Zhao Pdf

Percy Jackson meets Tristan Strong in this hilarious middle grade “edge-of-your-seat adventure” (James Ponti, New York Times bestselling author of City Spies) that follows a young boy as he journeys across China to seal the underworld shut and save the mortal realm. Zachary Ying never had many opportunities to learn about his Chinese heritage. His single mom was busy enough making sure they got by, and his schools never taught anything except Western history and myths. So Zack is woefully unprepared when he discovers he was born to host the spirit of the First Emperor of China for a vital mission: sealing the leaking portal to the Chinese underworld before the upcoming Ghost Month blows it wide open. The mission takes an immediate wrong turn when the First Emperor botches his attempt to possess Zack’s body and binds to Zack’s AR gaming headset instead, leading to a battle where Zack’s mom’s soul gets taken by demons. Now, with one of history’s most infamous tyrants yapping in his headset, Zack must journey across China to heist magical artifacts and defeat figures from history and myth, all while learning to wield the emperor’s incredible water dragon powers. And if Zack can’t finish the mission in time, the spirits of the underworld will flood into the mortal realm, and he could lose his mom forever.

Author : Ralph D. Sawyer,D Sawyer
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2011-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780465023349

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Ancient Chinese Warfare by Ralph D. Sawyer,D Sawyer Pdf

The history of China is a history of warfare. Rarely in its 3,000-year existence has the country not been beset by war, rebellion, or raids. Warfare was a primary source of innovation, social evolution, and material progress in the Legendary Era, Hsia dynasty, and Shang dynasty--indeed, war was the force that formed the first cohesive Chinese empire, setting China on a trajectory of state building and aggressive activity that continues to this day. In Ancient Chinese Warfare, a preeminent expert on Chinese military history uses recently recovered documents and archaeological findings to construct a comprehensive guide to the developing technologies, strategies, and logistics of ancient Chinese militarism. The result is a definitive look at the tools and methods that won wars and shaped culture in ancient China.

Author : Tian Hengyu
Publisher : Asiapac Books Pte Ltd
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-13
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9789812299345

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Great Chinese Emperors (2010 Edition - EPUB) by Tian Hengyu Pdf

Throughout the history of China, many rulers had come and gone. Who are the ones still standing tall in the annals of history as a result of their outstanding contributions and awe-inspiring character? There were the Three Sage Kings and the Five Legendary Rulers who painstakingly laid the foundation for Chinese civilisation. They were followed by luminaries like Emperor Shihuang of the Qin Dynasty who first unified China, Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty who brought unprecedented prosperity to the land, and Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty who contributed to the progress of the sciences. All these eminent emperors had one thing in common: their love for their people. Who are the other great sovereigns who took personal responsibility for the people's happiness? Read on and find out!

Author : Jung Chang
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2008-06-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781439106495

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Wild Swans by Jung Chang Pdf

The story of three generations in twentieth-century China that blends the intimacy of memoir and the panoramic sweep of eyewitness history—a bestselling classic in thirty languages with more than ten million copies sold around the world, now with a new introduction from the author. An engrossing record of Mao’s impact on China, an unusual window on the female experience in the modern world, and an inspiring tale of courage and love, Jung Chang describes the extraordinary lives and experiences of her family members: her grandmother, a warlord’s concubine; her mother’s struggles as a young idealistic Communist; and her parents’ experience as members of the Communist elite and their ordeal during the Cultural Revolution. Chang was a Red Guard briefly at the age of fourteen, then worked as a peasant, a “barefoot doctor,” a steelworker, and an electrician. As the story of each generation unfolds, Chang captures in gripping, moving—and ultimately uplifting—detail the cycles of violent drama visited on her own family and millions of others caught in the whirlwind of history.

Author : Mu-chou Poo,Muzhou Pu
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107021174

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Daily Life in Ancient China by Mu-chou Poo,Muzhou Pu Pdf

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