Monarchs of China

Ying Zheng conquered the six warring states by 221 BC, inventing the title Huangdi, emperor. Standardized script, weights, axle wi...

From concubine to emperor, Wu ruled China in her own name, the only woman ever. She expanded the exam system, meritocracy against ...

Second Qing emperor, Kangxi took personal rule at 14, defeated the Three Feudatories revolt, took Taiwan from the Zheng, checked R...

Kangxi grandson, Qianlong completed the conquest of Xinjiang, the empire at its largest. The Ten Great Campaigns, self styled. The...

Zhu Yuanzhang, orphan beggar monk, rose through rebel armies to expel the Mongols 1368, the only peasant founder of a major Chines...

Usurper after three year civil war against his nephew, Zhu Di moved capital to Beijing, built the Forbidden City. He launched Zhen...

Puyi ascended at 2, the Xinhai revolution deposed him at 6. The Articles of Favorable Treatment kept him in the Forbidden City unt...

Li Shimin helped his father found the Tang dynasty and seized power after killing two brothers at the Xuanwu Gate in 626. As emper...

Reigning for over fifty years, Emperor Wu made Confucianism the official ideology of the state and founded an imperial academy. Hi...