Who is the Most Important Chinese Emperor after QSHD?

Please vote+post.

Edit: Please move to the World History forum

What is QSHD?

Oh. Sorry. Qin Shi Huang Di

I didn't know who QSHD was either. I thought it was a new version of HD TV.

Is anyone here from the West actually qualified to answer this with any sense of intelligence? Who the hell is Wu? The mortal combat character?

I choose Mao because he's the only one I heard of.

This thread is silly. No one actually cares about China!

This thread is silly. No one actually cares about China!
And no one actually speaks Asian, so yeah, who cares?

This thread is silly. No one actually cares about China!

And no one actually speaks Asian, so yeah, who cares?

Pasi did.

Ama does.

ohwait-

Mao was a pretty important continuation of the Emperor tradition...

Whoever the Emperor was during the Southern Song "golden age" might also be in the running.

I think that the most important after that "monster of history" that's QSHD is Wu Di from the Han dinasty. You know, he declared confucianism as the state religion of China and began the golden age of the Han dinasty and he achieved the greatest expansion of Han China.

I don't even know what some of their names are in Chinese. If I write Chinese representations of names of famous European people, even Europeans who can speak Chinese would have a hard time deciphering who they are.

That said, Kangxi ruled China at its largest and it was a pretty good rule, so he stands out to me.

I don't even know what some of their names are in Chinese. If I write Chinese representations of famous European people, even Europeans who can speak Chinese would have a hard time deciphering who they are.

What has this with the emperors to do? BTW, this thread belongs to world history.

What has this with the emperors to do?

Huh? You mean you don't get why I'm saying that? Because there are millions of Chinese people called Wu, for example, so who the hell is Wu? It's also the name of a Chinese kingdom. And Ming Huang? Maybe he meant Tang Ming Huang? Why put his name without the Tang, which is the name of his dynasty? And I don't know who some of the rest actually are unless I see or hear their names pronounced in Chinese.

I didn't know who QSHD was either. I thought it was a new version of HD TV.

The intelligence of Off Topic.




:mischief:

Huh? You mean you don't get why I'm saying that? Because there are millions of Chinese people called Wu, for example, so who the hell is Wu? It's also the name of a Chinese kingdom. And Ming Huang? Maybe he meant Tang Ming Huang? Why put his name without the Tang, which is the name of his dynasty? And I don't know who some of the rest actually are unless I see or hear their names pronounced in Chinese.

Well, I think that polls in chinese characters are not allowed, 懂吗？

thread moved

Well, I think that polls in chinese characters are not allowed, 懂吗？

That doesn't change the fact that the poll options are difficult to decipher. Maybe some background info on each would help?

That's right, aelf. Anyways, I voted for Wu because I thought it was obvious that it was Wu Di's entry.

Srry, bad poll. I'll edit it.

If I can....

Ready:
Tang Taizong is also known as 唐太宗, or Li Shimin (李 世民)
Zhu Di is also known as 朱 棣, or Yongle 永樂
Kang Xi is also known as 康熙
Qianlong is also known as 乾隆
Replace Wen of Han with Wu Di aka Han Wudi 漢武帝 aka Liu Zhi (劉 彘)
Replace Jing of Han with Taizu aka 太祖 aka Zhao Kuangyin (趙 匡胤)
Duke of Zhou aka 周公
Empress Wu aka 聖神皇帝 武 aka Wu Zetian 武 則天 aka Wu Zhao 武 曌
Hongzhi aka 弘治 aka Zhu Youtang 朱 祐樘
Ming Huang aka 明皇 aka Tang Xuanzong 唐 玄宗
Other

"Duke of Zhou aka 周公"

I would never have thought that. And so Wu is the Empress. Hardly a good despot to me, though.

I still vote Kangxi. I think he's just more awesome in absolute ways.

Wen Di of the Sui dynasty more important than just about any of those. So is Gao Zu of the Han Dynasty.

"Duke of Zhou aka 周公"
He was before Qin.
"Hongzhi aka 弘治 aka Zhu Youtang 朱 祐樘"
Not famous or important in Chinese history.
This topic have been discussed so many time when I learned Chinese history in junior middle school, but now it difficult for me to choose one. In China's history, there were many times the country was sperated and then re-united again. I do not think the emperor re-united the country is important, but who can bring us science and democracy. Unfortunately, nono of them bring us science and democracy.

Well, science has been brought by many Emperors. Democracy, never.

Mao Zedong :mischief:

Chinese history is long and complex and it's hard to judge who is the "most important emperor" but I think Kangxi is it. It was in his reign that Qing rule is consolidated. Taiwan, Mongolia, Xinjiang and Tibet is brought underimperial rule for the first time. It was during his rule western influence infiltrate China on a large scale, and Christianity and western thoughts became influential. As far as post-Yuan China is concerned, he is the most important monarch. Though it could be argued he was over-shadowed by his regents, ministers, officials, etc.

The answer would be all of them , china has a lot of quality leaders , it's only that these leaders are unfamilar to the western world, so that's why no 3rd chinese leader. Take Qianlong for example , if it was in BTS to replace of Boudica or Pericles then Bts would be less popular , hopefully if CivIV had a 3rd expansion pack they MUST include one of them

Well, science has been brought by many Emperors. Democracy, never.

Dr. Sun did try though...kinda part of his whole three pillars thing. Too bad his successor had to go and bungle things up.

Dr. Sun did try though...kinda part of his whole three pillars thing. Too bad his successor had to go and bungle things up.

Not an Emperor :p