ARE YOU A CHINA HISTORY SCHOLAR - Prove It?

Question

Anyone may try to answer this question. But, I put it here for people at Level 6 and 7 from Yahoo! Answers, Arts & Humanities > History.

The question reads: "In what year was China's the last Han-Chinese Emperor installed?"

This is not an easy or textbook question, you can't find the answer that easily and some of the best have failed!

This is not a textbook question and the answer can not be found by a quick examination or reading of Encyclopedia Wikipedia, Encyclopedia Britannica, and other sources. This question is open to everyone.

To answer this question correctly and you would need to be proficient in the study of China's history and you need to read classical Chinese. Are there any China history scholars out there? Prove it!

The question looks simple enough. This is a good history question!
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Dumb me, I gave away the answer. The question was supposed to read: "In what year was China's the last Emperor installed?"

1. Traditional Chinese do not accept the Ch'ing Dynasty as a Chinese dynasty and so the Ch'ing Dynasty is discounted.
2. If you said that Sizong or Chongzhen was the last Chinese Emperor and that he was installed was 1627 or 1628 that would be acceptable, but you are not taking into account Ming Dynasty records that show that in 1644 CHOU Shun Cheong was installed by court. Making him the last emperor to be installed.
3. By Chinese tradition all emperors are referred to by their reign title and their personal names are never used. Zhuang Leili, his posthumous name, would be more properly Zhuang liemin.
4. An Imperial succession is a continuous paternal succession and when a dynasty ends, the Imperial claimant/Imperial family is supposed to name a last Emperor and heir-apparent to the family succession for future generations.
5. CHOU Shun Cheong is the last Emperor

installed by the Ming Dynasty Court. The year was 1644.

SOURCE:
Ming Dynasty records.
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Shun Cheong's succession information does not appear in Court records as this information was privately held to protect the Emperor and his family from possible assassination by people from the foreign, Manchurian, Ch'ing Dynasty.

So, apart from history writings and a few words mentioned in certain Chinese texts not connected with the dynasty's records. You will have to go to my published succession records for Emperor Shun Cheong at http://www.geocities.com/zhouclan/ImperialSuccession/1644-2007.html

it gives the date written in Chinese language of China's last Han-Chinese emperor and it's not Chongzhen.

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Answer 1

The last Emperor of China was Henry Pu-yi, who was Emperor in fact from, 1908-12 and a limited monarch for some time after that, including a stint as a Japanese puppet during the second World War. He died in 1967. But, he was a Manchu.

The Actual Han Dynasties, there were two, lasted from 206BCE to 220CE. The first Han Emporer was Liu Bang. The Han extablished a code of Laws and the Confucian Bureaucracy that still remain in a modifed form under the Reds.

The last Han Emporer Pinyin Hàn Xiàn dì, abdicated to Cao Pi in 220CE, beginning the 3 Kingdoms period.

That's the Hans themselves. The Chinese have been called Han ever since, The last ethnic Han Emporer, Zhu Youlang died in 1662, although his Ming Dynasty was pretty much over by 1644.

I've probably missed some important nuances, but that's the best I can do substituting research skills for exhaustive knowledge.

Answer 2

Now, if you mean the last emperor of the Han Dynasty, that would be the emperor who abdicated in 220 CE.
You answered this question with this..."The Actual Han Dynasties, there were two, lasted from 206BCE to 220CE. The first Han Emperor was Liu Bang.
The last Han Emperor Pinyin Hàn Xiàn dì, abdicated to Cao Pi in
220CE, beginning the 3 Kingdoms period."

If you mean the last emperor of China who was a Han Chinese (as opposed to a Manchu), that would indeed be the last Ming Dynasty emperor. The last Ming Dynasty emperor hung himself on a tree on the hill behind the Forbidden City, as the capital was besieged by the peasant rebels of Li Zicheng in 1644.

You answered this with this statement.."The last ethnic Han Emperor, Zhu Youlang died in 1662, although his Ming Dynasty was pretty much over by 1644."

The emperors of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1912), as you know, were Manchus, not Han Chinese!

Answer 3

The Ming Dynasty: 1368 - 1644.

The last Ming (Han Chinese) Emperor installed was: Si zong - personal name: Zhuang Leili (1628 -1643).

Answer 4

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Answer 5

I think it is in 1908 when the young Pu yi was installed as the emperor place. he was to small around 8 ten year..

Answer 6

and you need to read classical Chinese

hmmm... there are about 20 languages in China.
the answer is here:
http://www.chinainstitute.org/educators/curriculum/han/chronology.html

Answer 7

about 1800s.

Answer 8

I'm not interested in Chinese history. but I will guess 1803, please let me know if I won the brick of Chinese lead.