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Biography of Han Wu-ti
Name: Han Wu-ti
Birth Date: 157 B.C.
Death Date: 87 B.C.
Place of Birth: N/A
Nationality: Chinese
Gender: Male
Occupations: emperor
Han Wu-ti
The Chinese emperor Han Wu-ti (157-87 BC) enlarged China's frontiers, instituted new means of income for the state, and made Confucianism the state orthodoxy.Han Wu-ti was originally named Liu Ch'e. He came to the Han throne at the age of 16 but did not take the government into his own hands until 131 B.C. He was firmly determined to wield imperial power to a greater extent than any of his predecessors in the (Former) Han dynasty had done. In his administration of justice, for example, all but one of his seven prime ministers between 121 and 88 were convicted of crimes and met violent deaths. The numerous laws were harshly applied throughout the empire, thus creating a style of government unknown among his Han predecessors but strikingly similar to that of Ch'in Shih huang-ti.Expansion of the EmpireWu-ti (meaning "martial emperor") was a well-deserved title. His campaigns toward the south, into present-day North …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…most profound significance to all later Chinese history. Further Reading There is no scholarly monograph devoted to Han Wu-ti or his reign, but there are several works that deal with various aspects of the period. Homer H. Dubs's translation of the work by the 1st-century historian Pan Ku, History of the Former Han Dynasty (3 vols., 1938-1955), is a technical translation with interpretive essays of those parts that cover Wu-ti's reign in an annalistic manner. Parts of Ssu-ma Ch'ien's history dealing with the Han dynasty have been translated into English by Burton D. Watson in Records of the Grand Historian of China, Translated from the Shih chi of Ssu-ma Ch'ien (2 vols., 1961). Wu-ti's foreign policies are expertly treated in Ying-shih YU, Trade and Expansion in Han China: A Study in the Structure of Sino-Barbarian Economic Relations (1967). On Wu-ti's economic policies see Nancy Lee Swann, ed. and trans., Food and Money in Ancient China (1950).
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