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*''Died: [[1521]]''

*''Died: [[1521]]''

*''Reign: [[1506]]-1521''

*''Reign: [[1505]]-1521''

The Zhengde Emperor was the tenth emperor of China's [[Ming Dynasty]].

The Zhengde Emperor was the eleventh emperor of China's [[Ming Dynasty]].

While previous emperors were obligated to a strict schedule of rituals and audiences every day, Zhengde was the first to manage to break free, absenting himself from the palace, and from the city, for extended periods, beginning in [[1517]], during which time government and administration carried on without him. The Confucian scholar-bureaucracy resisted this, insisting on the importance of the daily rituals and meetings, but Zhengde simply pushed them aside, in favor of [[eunuchs]] who were more amenable to his intentions.

While previous emperors were obligated to a strict schedule of rituals and audiences every day, Zhengde was the first to manage to break free, absenting himself from the palace, and from the city, for extended periods, beginning in [[1517]], during which time government and administration carried on without him. The Confucian scholar-bureaucracy resisted this, insisting on the importance of the daily rituals and meetings, but Zhengde simply pushed them aside, in favor of [[eunuchs]] who were more amenable to his intentions.

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|width="35%"|Preceded by<br>'''[[Hongzhi Emperor]]'''

|width="35%"|Preceded by<br>'''[[Hongzhi Emperor]]'''

|width="25%"|'''Emperor of [[Ming Dynasty|Ming]]<br>[[1506]]-[[1521]]'''

|width="25%"|'''Emperor of [[Ming Dynasty|Ming]]<br>[[1505]]-[[1521]]'''

|width="35%"|Succeeded by<br>'''[[Jiajing Emperor]]'''

|width="35%"|Succeeded by<br>'''[[Jiajing Emperor]]'''

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