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Chronology of the Chinese.

8. 漢紀 HAN KE.

Names of the Sovereigns.

1 高祖

Kaoutsoo.

2 惠帝

Hwuy te.

3 呂后

Leu how.

4 文帝

Wăn te.

5景帝 King te.

Woo te.

6 武帝

7 昭帝

Chaou te.

8 宣帝

Seuen te.

9元帝

Yuen te.

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Ching te.

11哀帝 Ngae te.

12 平帝

Ping te..

13 孺子嬰 Jootsze ying.

14 Hwaeyang wang

淮陽王

MARCH

With cotemporary Chinese Events.

韓信國士無雙 Han

Sin was without an equal.

yu heuě, it rained blood.

Leu how (i. e. the empress Leu)

the first female sovereign.

Paper said to have been invent- ed by the Chinese in this reign.

地震二十二日 earth quaked for 22 successive days.

司馬談 Szema Tan received

the title of first historiographer.

司馬遷 Szema Tseën, his

son, the Herodotus of China, was born 145 B. C.

In the time of Seuen te the

Chinese empire extended to the Caspian sea.

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劉向作烈女傳 Lew

Heäng wrote the Memoirs of Dis

tinguished Women.

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(This dynasty down to the time

of Ping te is sometimes called the Western Han, in contradistinc-

tion to that which arose soon after.):

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Lew Pang--for this was the name of the first emperor of the new dynasty-did not gain full possession of the empire till 202 B. C., which year is marked in the tables before us, as the 5th of his reign; by most writers, however, 202 is regarded as the 1st year of the Han dynasty.

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It should be remarked here that the sovereigns of this line intro- duced what is known as the kwo haou or national title;' historians however have preferred to give the first place to the meaou haou, and to regard it as the proper name of each emperor; but it could be used only after the sovereign's demise; while the other, the kwo haou was used during his lifetime, and by some of the emperors was often changed, and frequently more than once. In this concise view, we venture to omit the introduction of all these kwo haou.

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