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Western Chou; Eastern Chou begins in 771 BC)
1025 -
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Qin Dynasty
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221 -
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Han Dynasty
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206 -
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Gaozu (Liu Bang, Ji, Gaohuangdi) |
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Hsin Dynasty (Xin Dynasty)
9 - 23
Wang Mang
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Han Dynasty
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Kingdom (Wei Dynasty, north China)
220-226 Cao Pi
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Shu Han (Sichuan Province)
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(Chin, Western Chin)
265 -
290 Wudi
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386 - 534
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Dynasty (Northern)
534 - 550
Wei
Dynasty (Eastern)
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(Empress)
550 - 577
Qi
Dynasty
535 - 556
Wei
Dynasty (Western)
557 - 581
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420 - 479
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Dynasty (Sung
Dynasty)
420 - ... Liu Yü
479 - 502
Qi
Dynasty
502 - 557
Lian
Dynasty (Liang
Dynasty)
502 - ... Hsiao Yen
557 - 589
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581 -
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(Yang Jian, Yang Chien)
604 - 618
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Liang
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923 - 936
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Dynasty
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960 - 1127
Northern Sung Dynasty
960 - 976 Taizu
(T'ai-tsu, Zhao Kuangyin)
916 - 1125
Liao Dynasty in the Northeast (Khitan
Empire)
1032 - 1227
Western Hsia Dynasty (Northwest)
1115 - 1234
Chin Dynasty (Jin Dynasty, Kin Dynasty,
Juchen Dynasty, Jürchen Dynasty)
1127 - 1279
Southern Sung Dynasty (Nan Sung)
1127 - 1162 Gaozong
(Kao-tsung, Zhao Gou)
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retreats to south of the Huai River in 1127.
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1521 -
1567
Jiajing (Chia Ching, Zhu Houcong)
1567 -
1572
Longqing (Zhu Zaihou)
1572 -
1620 Wanli
(Wan Li, Zhu Yijun)
1620 - 1627
Tianqi
(T'ien-ch'i)
(1624-1627
Dictatorship of the eunuch
Wei Chung-hsian
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Qing Dynasty
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Dynasty, Manchu Dynasty, Manchu Empire)
Emperor:
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1661 - 1723 Kangxi
(K'ang Hsi, Xuanye)
1723 -
1735
Yongzheng (Yung-cheng)
1735 -
1796
Qianlong (Ch'ien-lung, keeps
reigning after 1796 until his death in 1799)
(Nominally:) 1796 - 1820
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Xianfeng
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1861 - 1875
Tongzhi (T'ung Chi)
1875 - 1908
Empress Tz'u-hsi (Cixi, Xitaihou,
Xiaoqin Xianhuanghou, Empress Dowager)
(Nominally:) 1875 -
1908
Guangxu (Kuang Hsu)
1908 -
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Republic of China
(on Taiwan after 1949)
Provisional
President:
December 29, 1911 -
February 1912
Sun-Yat-sen
President:
February 1912 -
March 1916
Yuan Shikai (Yüan Shih-k'ai)
(1915 - March
1916
Yuan Shikai self-proclaimed
emperor)
June 1916 -
July 1917
Li Yuanhong (Li Yüan-hung)
(July 1917
attempted restoration of Emperor Puyi)
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1922 -
June 1923
Li Yuanhong (Li Yüan-hung)
(again)
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(1912 - 1927
Warlord Period)
1928 - 1949
Chiang Kai-shek
(Chiang Chieh-shih, Chiang Chung-cheng,
Jiang Jieshi) |
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Today |
People's Republic of China
(From October
1, 1949)
Chairman:
1949 - 1959
Mao Zedong
1959 - 1968
Liu Shaoqi
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Premier:
1976 - 1980
Hua Guofeng
(Hua Kuo-feng, Su Zhu)
1980 - 1987
Zhao Ziyang
(Chao Tzu-yang , Zhao Xiusheng)
(July 1977 -
February 1997
Deng Xiaoping)
President:
1983 - 1988
Li Xiannian
(Li Hsien-nien)
1988 - March
26, 1993 Yang
Shangkun (Yang Shang-k'un)
March 27, 1993
- 2003 Jian Zemin
(Chiang Tse-min)
2003 - ...
Hu Jintao
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