Han Dynasty

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• Liu Bang · 256 eaa.–195 eaa. · Feng, China → Chang'an, China — A village official of peasant stock who rose in the revolt against Qin, defeated Xiang Yu, and founded the Han in 202 BCE (reigned 202–195 BCE). Posthumously Emperor Gao (Gaozu), the archetypal commoner-founder of a Chinese dynasty.
• Empress Lü · 241 eaa.–180 eaa. · Shanfu, China → Chang'an, China — Empress of Gaozu and, after his death, the ruthless dowager who dominated the court as regent (195–180 BCE); she purged the Liu princes and raised her own clan to power, the first woman to rule the empire in all but name.
• Emperor Hui · 210 eaa.–188 eaa. · Pei, China → Chang'an, China — Son of Gaozu and Empress Lü and second emperor (reigned 195–188 BCE); a gentle ruler broken by the cruelty of his mother, he died young and left real power wholly in her hands.
• Emperor Wen · 203 eaa.–157 eaa. · China → Chang'an, China — Son of Gaozu by the lesser consort Bo, raised to the throne by ministers after the Lü clan was destroyed (reigned 180–157 BCE); his frugal, lenient rule opened the celebrated Reign of Wen and Jing. Posthumously Emperor Wen.
• Emperor Jing · 188 eaa.–141 eaa. · China → Chang'an, China — Son of Wen and Empress Dou (reigned 157–141 BCE); he crushed the Rebellion of the Seven States to break the regional kings and, with his father, gave the early Han its golden peace. Posthumously Emperor Jing.
• Emperor Wu · 156 eaa.–87 eaa. · Chang'an, China → Chang'an, China — Son of Jing and Empress Wang and the longest-reigning Han emperor (141–87 BCE); he drove the empire to its zenith — crushing the Xiongnu, opening the Silk Road, and making Confucianism the state creed — yet his late reign was scarred by the witchcraft purges. Posthumously Emperor Wu.
• Liu Ju · 128 eaa.–91 eaa. · Chang'an, China → Chang'an, China — Crown prince of Wu by Empress Wei; framed in the witchcraft purge of 91 BCE, he raised troops in desperation, was defeated, and killed himself — the deposed heir whose fall reshaped the succession.
• Liu Jin · 113 eaa.–91 eaa. · Chang'an, China → Chang'an, China — Son of the deposed crown prince Liu Ju, killed with most of his family in the witchcraft purge of 91 BCE; remembered as the Imperial Grandson Shi and father of the future Emperor Xuan.
• Emperor Zhao · 94 eaa.–74 eaa. · Chang'an, China → Chang'an, China — Youngest son of Wu, enthroned as a boy under the regent Huo Guang (reigned 87–74 BCE); his mother was put to death so that no dowager could rule in his name. He died without heir. Posthumously Emperor Zhao.
• Emperor Xuan · 91 eaa.–48 eaa. · Chang'an, China → Chang'an, China — Grandson of Liu Ju, who survived the purge as an infant in prison and grew up among commoners before ministers placed him on the throne in 74 BCE (reigned 74–48 BCE); his able rule restored Han prosperity — the commoner-raised emperor. Posthumously Emperor Xuan.
• Emperor Yuan · 75 eaa.–33 eaa. · Chang'an, China → Chang'an, China — Son of Xuan and Empress Xu (reigned 48–33 BCE); a Confucian scholar-emperor whose indulgence of court favourites and consort clans began the slow decline that would end the Western Han. Posthumously Emperor Yuan.
• Liu Taigong · ?–197 eaa. · Chang'an, China — Father of Liu Bang and patriarch of the House of Liu; a commoner farmer of Pei honoured during his lifetime as Grand Supreme Emperor (Taishang Huang) while his son reigned — the only living father of an emperor so titled in the dynasty.
• Consort Bo · ?–155 eaa. · Chang'an, China — A minor consort of Gaozu and mother of Emperor Wen; her obscurity spared her the purges of Empress Lü, and she lived to become grand dowager when her son took the throne.
• Empress Dou · ?–135 eaa. · Chang'an, China — Empress of Wen and mother of Jing; a devotee of Huang-Lao Daoism, she remained a formidable grand dowager whose conservative hand shaped three reigns.
• Empress Wang · ?–126 eaa. · Chang'an, China — Empress of Jing and mother of Emperor Wu; a remarried commoner woman whose improbable rise to empress secured the succession of the greatest Han ruler.
• Empress Wei · ?–91 eaa. · Pingyang, China → Chang'an, China — Empress of Wu, risen from palace singer, and mother of the crown prince Liu Ju; falsely caught up in the witchcraft scandal of 91 BCE, she took her own life.
• Empress Xu · ?–71 eaa. · Chang'an, China — First empress of Xuan, married to him in his commoner days; poisoned by the family of the regent Huo Guang so that their own daughter could take her place — the beloved wife of the devotion-to-the-old-sword story.