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4 unusual facts about Emperor of China


Odd Tablet

笏 was a long, rectangular tablet that court officials used to record matters when seeing the Chinese Emperor.

Stephen T. Chang

Chang's grandmother was a master physician, while his great-grandfather was a physician and professor to the Emperor of China (Tung Tse) and Empress Tse Shi (Ci Xi) (慈禧) as well as the first Chinese ambassador to the United States during the Benjamin Harrison administration (1889–1893).

William John Francis Jenner

There he translated i.e. From Emperor to Citizen, an „autobiography“ of the last Emperor of China, Puyi, and started translating the novel Journey to the West into English.

Zhongli Mo

Liu Bang emerged victorious in the Chu–Han contention and unified China under his rule, becoming Emperor Gaozu of the Han Dynasty.


Elizabeth Monck, Duchess of Albemarle

From this time, the widowed Elizabeth declared that she would only marry into royalty and was convinced that the Kangxi Emperor of Qing Dynasty China wished to marry her; suitably dressed as the Emperor of China, her sister-in-law Elizabeth's stepfather, the Duke of Montagu, asked for her hand in marriage and they were wed on 8 September 1692 in Newcastle House, London.

Lady Li

Li Furen (Chinese: 李夫人) was a concubine who married and produced offspring for Emperor Han Wudi, the seventh emperor of the Han Dynasty of China, who ruled from 141 — 87 BC.

Marquess of Beixiang

The Marquess of Beixiang, (trad. ch. 北鄉侯, sim. ch. 北乡侯, py bĕi xīang hóu, wg. Han Pei-hsiang-hou), sometimes referred to as Emperor Shao (少帝, literally "young emperor"), was an emperor of the Chinese Han Dynasty.


see also

Cyril the Swan

Cyril appeared as the pet of the Emperor of China, in a British pantomime of Aladdin.

Early western influence in Fujian

Charles Elliot, the British Superintendent of Trade in China wrote to the ‘Minister of the Emperor of China’ protesting against the violent outrages against British residents.

History of Vancouver

One famous sale of trees cut from the Jericho neighbourhood (west of Kitsilano), was a special order for the Celestial Emperor of China consisting of dozens of immense beams for the construction of The Gate of Heavenly Peace in the Forbidden City, Beijing.

Shi Chonggui

Shi Chonggui (Chinese: 石重貴) (died 974), known after his death as the Chudi Emperor, was the last Emperor of China from the Later Jin Dynasty.

Tai Yi Shen Shu

Genghis Khan, emperor of China, referred to Tai Yi at one point to decide whether or not his planned invasion of Japan would succeed.

Vase with carved peony scrolls

It was not however until royal consort Wu Zetian, who later became the only woman to serve as emperor of China, took an interest in the flower that it gained in popularity.

Yang Jian

Emperor Wen of Sui (541–604), founder and first emperor of China's Sui Dynasty