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Chapters: 156 Bc Births, Emperor Wu of Han. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 29. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Emperor Wu of Han (traditional Chinese: simplified Chinese: pinyin: Hanwdi; Wade-Giles: Wu Ti), (156 BC29 March, 87 BC), personal name Liu Che (), was the seventh emperor of the Han Dynasty of China, ruling from 141 BC to 87 BC. Emperor Wu is best remembered for the vast territorial expansion that occurred under his reign, as well as the strong and centralized Confucian state he organized. He is cited in Chinese history as the greatest emperor of the Han dynasty and one of the greatest emperors in Chinese history. Emperor Wu's effective governance made the Han Dynasty one of the, if not the most powerful, nations in the world. As a military campaigner, Emperor Wu led Han China through its greatest expansion at its height, the Empire's borders spanned from modern Kyrgyzstan in the west, to northern Korea in the northeast, and to northern Vietnam in the south. Emperor Wu successfully repelled the nomadic Xiongnu from systematically raiding northern China and dispatched his envoy Zhang Qian in 139 BC to seek an alliance with the Yuezhi of modern Uzbekistan. This resulted in further missions to Central Asia. Although historical records do not describe him as a follower of Buddhism, exchanges probably occurred as a consequence of these embassies, and there are suggestions that he received Buddhist statues from central Asia, as depicted in Mogao Caves murals. He ordered the first census in the recorded history of China to take place in his reign. While establishing an autocratic and centralized state, Emperor Wu adopted the principles of Confucianism as the state philosophy and code of ethics for his empire and started a school to teach future administrators the Confucian...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=339091


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  • ISBN-13: 9781157726500
  • Publisher: Books LLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Books LLC
  • Height: 152 mm
  • No of Pages: 30
  • Spine Width: 2 mm
  • Weight: 59 gr
  • ISBN-10: 115772650X
  • Publisher Date: 15 Sep 2010
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: 156 BC Births, Emperor Wu of Han
  • Width: 229 mm


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