The nobility of China represented the upper strata of aristocracy in premodern China, acting as the ruling class until c. 1000 CE, and remaining a significant...

Nobility is a social class found in many societies that have an aristocracy. It is normally ranked immediately below royalty. Nobility has often been an...

word aka, and cognate with the Turkic word agha. Chinese nobility Mongolian nobility Imperial Chinese harem system § Qing title existed in the Kangxi era...

Chinese jade refers to the jade mined or carved in China from the Neolithic onward. It is the primary hardstone of Chinese sculpture. Although deep and...

monarchial period, the Vietnamese nobility (quý tộc) were classified into eleven ranks (tước vị), with names similar to their Chinese equivalent. These are listed...

The Han Chinese (alternatively Han people, or simply Chinese) are an East Asian ethnic group native to Greater China. With a global population of over...

Traditional rank amongst European imperiality, royalty, peers, and nobility is rooted in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Although they vary over time...

Chinese historiography is the study of the techniques and sources used by historians to develop the recorded history of China. The recording of events...

structure of China has an expansive history which begins from the feudal society of Imperial China to the contemporary era. There was a Chinese nobility, beginning...

The Chinese sovereign was the ruler of a particular monarchical regime in the historical periods of ancient China and imperial China. Sovereigns ruling...

characters could be chosen as a Chinese name, a Hong Kong name, a Japanese name, a Korean name, a Malaysian Chinese name, or a Vietnamese name, but they...

used Chinese character in an emperor's personal name due to the longstanding practice of naming taboo in the imperial family during ancient China period...

Belgian nobility British peerage titles granted to Canadian subjects of the Crown Canadian nobility in the aristocracy of France Chinese nobility Peerage...

common Chinese surname Wāng (汪), a less common Chinese surname Titles in Chinese nobility A title in Korean nobility A title in Mongolian nobility Wang...

The Armenian nobility (Armenian: Հայ ազնվականություն, romanized: hay aznvakanutyun) was a class of persons which enjoyed certain privileges relative to...

arrange for Han Chinese elites to marry daughters of the royal family in the 480s. Some Han Chinese exiled royalty fled from southern China and defected...

Japanese occupation. The system concerning the nobility is roughly the same as that of the Chinese nobility. As the monastical orders did during Europe's...

The nobility of the Zhou dynasty refers to the power dynamics of the aristocracy in Zhou dynasty China. The nobility interacted with the royal apparatus...

The Khmer nobility is a social class comprising titled officials in the service of the monarchy. They form part of a hierarchical social system which developed...

installation of the Constitution that adopted republic system, the concept of nobility has been abolished, both formally and in practice. As the Benedictines...

the advent of Chinese economic reform under Deng Xiaoping. Chinese nobility Society and culture of the Han dynasty Cabang Atas, the Chinese gentry of colonial...

on the British peerage, but with titles deriving from the ancient Chinese nobility. Usually, though not always, titles and hereditary financial stipends...

history promulgated by Chinese historians as a great leader of the peasants against intolerable oppression of the Qin nobility and bourgeois. However...

(2014). "中国古代女性阅读史分期述略" [A brief introduction to the stages of Ancient Chinese women's written histories]. Xinshi Jitu Shiguan (in Chinese) (8): 75–78....

political and military power (equivalent to Prime Minister). It is a title of nobility as well. Also known as Da Shang Zao (大上造). The function of Da Liang Zao...

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Shanqi (Chinese: 善耆; 5 October 1866 – 29 March 1922), courtesy name Aitang (艾堂), formally Prince Su of the First Rank, was a prince of the Aisin-Gioro...

China portal Koufu (口父; Kǒufù) (died c.1126 BCE) was an ancient Chinese nobleman, a Zhou leader honoured by the Shang king Wǔ Yǐ. Wǔ Yǐ rewarded Koufu...

Lü Buwei (291–235 BCE) was a Chinese merchant and politician of the Qin state during the Warring States period. Originally an influential merchant from...

other than to be court decorations stems back thousands of years to Chinese nobility. The Pekingese and the Pug are both examples of canines chosen for...