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...
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imperial China, the leading culture. Emperors conferred titles of nobility. Imperial descendants formed the highest class of ancient Chinese nobility, their...
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Royal and noble ranks of the Qing dynasty (redirect from Qing Dynasty nobility)
word aka, and cognate with the Turkic word agha. Chinese nobility Mongolian nobility Imperial Chinese harem system § Qing title existed in the Kangxi era...
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monarchial period, the Vietnamese nobility (quý tộc) were classified into eleven ranks (tước vị), with names similar to their Chinese equivalent. These are listed...
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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...
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The Han Chinese (alternatively the Han people, or simply the Chinese people) are an East Asian ethnic group native to Greater China. With a global population...
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Imperial, royal and noble ranks (redirect from Ranks of nobility and peerage)
Traditional rank amongst European imperiality, royalty, peers, and nobility is rooted in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Although they vary over time...
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Chinese historiography is the study of the techniques and sources used by historians to develop the recorded history of China. The recording of events...
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The Chinese sovereign was the ruler of a particular monarchical regime in the historical periods of ancient China and imperial China. Sovereigns ruling...
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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...
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Jiaqing Emperor (redirect from Jiaqing Emperor of China)
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...
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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...
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Peerage (category Nobility)
Belgian nobility British peerage titles granted to Canadian subjects of the Crown Canadian nobility in the aristocracy of France Chinese nobility Peerage...
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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...
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Gentry (category Nobility)
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...
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Kazoku (redirect from Japanese nobility)
on the British peerage, but with titles deriving from the ancient Chinese nobility. Usually, though not always, titles and hereditary financial stipends...
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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...
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The Armenian nobility (Armenian: Հայ ազնվականություն, romanized: hay aznvakanutyun) was a class of persons which enjoyed certain privileges relative to...
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dynasty. China portal History portal Monarchy portal Chinese Empire Chinese Empire Reform Association Chinese expansionism Chinese nobility Chinese sovereign...
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Chen Sheng (category Chinese nobility)
history promulgated by Chinese historians as a great leader of the peasants against intolerable oppression of the Qin nobility and bourgeois. However...
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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...
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Da liang zao (category Chinese nobility)
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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Fu Jing (Shang dynasty) (category Chinese nobility)
(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....
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installation of the Constitution that adopted republic system, the concept of nobility has been abolished, both formally and in practice. As the Benedictines...
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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...
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Kong Zongyuan (category Chinese nobility)
Kong Zongyuan (simplified Chinese: 孔宗愿; traditional Chinese: 孔宗願, courtesy name 子莊) was a 46th generation descendant of Confucius and the first Duke Yansheng...
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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...
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Shanqi (category Chinese nobility)
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...
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Kangxi Emperor (redirect from Kangxi Emperor of China)
Forbidden City, Beijing, the Kangxi Emperor was originally given the Chinese name Xuanye (Chinese: 玄燁; pinyin: Xuanye; Manchu transliteration: hiowan yei). He...
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Fu Hao (category Chinese nobility)
Fu Hao (traditional Chinese: 婦好; simplified Chinese: 妇好; pinyin: Fù Hǎo; lit. 'Lady [surnamed] Hao') died c. 1200 BC, posthumous temple name Mu Xin (母辛)...
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