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• Yuan Chonghuan
  Yuan Chonghuan was a prominent [[Ming Dynasty]] general who led Chinese forces against the [[Manchus]]. ...to have numerous political enemies among both the military and the scholar-bureaucracy; when Manchu forces threatened [[Beijing]] in that year, he was accused of
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• Tea and Horse Agency
  ...aucracy, established by [[Wang Anshi]]. The Agency oversaw the exchange of Chinese tea for Tibetan horses; its officials consisted chiefly of merchants recrui
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• Wang Mao
  *''Japanese/Chinese'': [[王]] 茂 ''(Ou Mo / Wáng Mào)'' Ô Mo, or Wang Mao, was a scholar-official of Chinese origin who served the Okinawan kingdom of [[Chuzan|Chûzan]] for many years
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• Park Yeon
  ...oping a new type of ''pyeongyeong'' (C: ''biānqìng''), a type of ancient [[Chinese lithophone]] instrument, which he updated with the addition of pitch pipes. ...icial family, Park passed the Confucian exams and earned a position in the bureaucracy in [[1424]]. However, soon afterwards he left his bureaucratic post in favo
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• Kaiki
  *''Japanese/Chinese'': 懐機 ''(Kaiki / Huái Jī)'' ...latter were one of several key areas used for receiving and entertaining [[Chinese investiture envoys]] to the kingdom.
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• Emperor Taizong of Song
  *''Chinese'': 太宗皇帝 ''(Taizong huangdi)'' ...government such that the military was subject to the control of the civil bureaucracy, rather than being simply separate from it, as had been the case up until t
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• Hai jin
  *''Chinese'': 海禁 ''(hai jin)'' ...edge and skill in maritime navigation, commerce, Ming bureaucracy, ritual, Chinese language, and/or other relevant matters, to gain positions in tributary mis
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• Zhengde Emperor
  *''Chinese'': 正德帝 ''(Zhèngdédì / Shoutoku tei)'' ...to have killed a Mongol himself during the fighting. Though blocked by the bureaucracy from being permitted to journey there, the emperor had the relevant officia
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• Northern Wei Dynasty
  The Northern Wei Dynasty of Chinese history was ruled by the Tuoba, a nomadic people from the Mongolian steppes ...rt ranks|nine-rank]] system, a choice which benefited well-established Han Chinese families, and brought the dynasty the support of their political power and
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• Momourasoe rankan monument
  ...& adopting of Chinese models of Imperial court ritual, administration, and bureaucracy.<ref>Smits, ''Maritime Ryukyu'', University of Hawaii Press (2019), 139-140
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• Celestial Masters Rebellion
  *''Chinese'': 天師道 ''(Tiān shīdào)'' ...nized government within their territory. Based on the structure of the Han bureaucracy, it had one particularly key difference: each post was held not by an indiv
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• Zhang Juzheng
  *''Chinese'': [[張]]居正 ''(Zhāng Jūzhèng)'' ...ul and prosperous, and full government coffers. He reduced the size of the bureaucracy overall, placed greater central control over provincial governors, and took
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• Emperor Taizong of Tang
  *''Chinese/Japanese'': 唐太宗 ''(Táng Tàizōng / Tou Taisou)'' ...ng the Tang Law Code, which would have a profound influence upon all later Chinese dynasties, as well as upon legal structures throughout East Asia. The Japan
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• Empress Wu
  *''Chinese/Japanese'': 武則天 ''(Wǔ Zétiān / Busokuten)'' ...the [[Chinese imperial exams|exams]] system. In theory, the exams and the bureaucracy were opened up to people from a wider range of ethnic and economic status b
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• Zhang Xianzhong
  *''Chinese'': [[張]]獻忠 ''(Zhāng Xiànzhōng)'' ...mber 1644, he declared a new Great Western Kingdom, and began organizing a bureaucracy, minting coins, and so forth. His kingdom lasted only about three years, du
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• Taoism
  *''Chinese/Japanese'': 道教 ''(dào jiào / dou kyou)'' Taoism or Daoism is a major ancient Chinese philosophy that advocates following the natural order of things, known as t
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• Jiajing Emperor
  Jiajing's reign saw the revival of the power of the scholar-bureaucracy, which had been somewhat pushed aside by his predecessor, the [[Zhengde Emp ...t immortality elixirs.<ref>Conrad Schirokauer, et al, ''A Brief History of Chinese and Japanese Civilizations'', Fourth Edition, Cengage Learning (2012), 248,
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• Qin Dynasty
  *''Chinese/Japanese'': 秦 ''(Qín / Shin)'' ...the Qin represents the beginnings of a great many customs and standards in Chinese Imperial history. Further, it is from the name "Qin" that the word "China"
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• Nara Period
  This period continued to witness the importation and adaptation of Chinese and Korean imperial and religious culture, as well as material culture; [[b ...tence, while the capital city of Heijô stood starkly apart, a microcosm of Chinese elite culture transplanted into a Japan otherwise little changed from earli
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• Eunuchs
  Eunuchs played important roles in the Chinese Imperial Court since before the [[Tang Dynasty]]. ...atically, or came to an end, and the majority of eunuchs now came from non-Chinese origins among indigenous peoples of the south and southwest; a great many c
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