* Shi Hu, Chinese emperor of Later Zhao ( d. 349 )

* Shi Hu, emperor of the Jie state Later Zhao ( b. 295 )

* Emperor Shi Hu moves the capital of the Later Zhao state to Yecheng.

While studying in Yan ' an, Hu met and married his wife, Li Zhao, who was also a student in Yan ' an.

During the early 1980s, Deng referred to Hu and Zhao Ziyang as his " left and right hands ".

After advancing to the position of General Secretary, Hu promoted a number of political reforms, often collaborating with Zhao.

After Hu's dismissal, Deng promoted Zhao Ziyang to replace Hu as Party General Secretary, putting Zhao in a position to succeed Deng as " paramount leader ".

The article was interpreted by observers familiar with the Chinese political system as a confirmation by Wen that he was a protege of Hu, rather than Zhao Ziyang.

He was replaced by Zhao Ziyang as Premier in 1980, and by Hu Yaobang as Party Chairman in 1981.

Both Zhao and Hu were protégés of Deng who were dedicated to Chinese economic reform.

Thus in 1982, China perceivably had four main leaders: Hu Yaobang, the Party General Secretary ; Zhao Ziyang, the Premier ; Li Xiannian, the President ; and Deng Xiaoping, the " Paramount Leader ", holding title of the CMC Chairman.

While Zhao focused on economic reforms during the early 1980s, his superior, Hu Yaobang, promoted a number of political reforms.

In the late 1980s Hu and Zhao collaborated to promote a series of large-scale political reforms with vaguely defined goals.

The political reforms of Hu and Zhao included proposals to have candidates directly elected to the Politburo, more elections with more than one candidate, more government transparency, more consultation with the public on policy, and increased personal responsibility directed to officials for their mistakes.

Zhao and Hu also began a large-scale anti-corruption programme, and permitted the investigations of the children of high-ranking Party elders, who had grown up protected by their parents ' influence.

After Hu's dismissal, Deng promoted Zhao to replace Hu as CPC General Secretary, putting Zhao in the position to succeed Deng as " paramount leader ".

Zhao wrote warmly of Hu Yaobang in his autobiography, and generally agreed with Hu on the direction of China's economic reforms.

The student protests triggered by the sudden death of former CPC General Secretary Hu Yaobang, widely admired as a reform-minded leader, created a crisis in which Zhao was forced into a confrontation with his political enemies.

Deng Xiaoping appointed three party General Secretaries, all designed to be successors, and was instrumental in the ousting of two of them, Hu Yaobang and Zhao Ziyang.

Zhao Ziyang's vision of political change in China dims as Hu Jintao hardens the Party line ( Time Asia )

Deng ruled as paramount leader although he never held the top title of the party, and was able to remove three party leaders ; some members of Eight Elders were instrumental in removing Hu Yaobang in 1987, and Zhao Ziyang in 1989.

The Warring States Period began when the smaller states have all been annexed, and only seven large states remained: Qi, Chu, Yan, Han, Zhao, Wei, Qin.

Zhao also began to lose favour with paramount leader Deng Xiaoping.

Soon after they met, Zhao began a speech that he had prepared over the previous night: " I have been rethinking the Cultural Revolution during these years as a labourer ..." Zhou cut him off, saying " You've been called to Beijing because the Central Committee has decided to name you as a deputy Party chief of Inner Mongolia.

Once all these powerful rulers had firmly established themselves within their respective dominions, the bloodshed focused more fully on interstate conflict in the Warring States Period, which began in 403 BC when the three remaining elite families in Jin – Zhao, Wei and Han – partitioned the state.

The transition towards the third generation of leaders began in 1989 when, in the aftermath of the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, Deng Xiaoping nominated Jiang Zemin to succeed Zhao Ziyang as formal leader of the Communist Party of China.

The town Zhao became part of the state of Jin during the Warring States Period, when the Zhou Dynasty began to collapse.

Meanwhile, Han Zhao attracted those Han and non-Han agrarians and tribesmen disappointed in Jin rule, and began to grow in size and power.

Chao ( Zhao Yuanren ) began the study of the Chinese language and dialects using tools of western linguistics.

After Fei Yi's death, Jiang Wei assumed command of Shu's troops and began a number of campaigns against Wei -- but while they were troubling to Wei's de facto rulers Sima Shi and Sima Zhao ( who had rendered Wei's emperors figureheads after succeeding their father Sima Yi ), the attacks largely inflicted no real damage against Wei, as Jiang Wei's campaigns were plagued by one problem that had plagued Zhuge Liang's -- the lack of adequate food supply — and largely had to be terminated after a short duration.

His literary talent began to be known when he was young, and his reputation matched that of Su Weidao, who was also from Zhao Prefecture.

Jin did not react, although it began to also seek allegiance of the generals in the former territory of Later Zhao southern provinces.

In the 12th century, during the Song Dynasty, a Buddhist monk named Zhao Zhifeng began work on the elaborate sculptures and carvings on Mount Baoding, dedicating 70 years of his life to the project.

In response, Yang put Yuwen Zhao and his brother Yuwen Sheng ( 宇文盛 ) the Prince of Yue to death, and after Yuchi was defeated, he began to slaughter the Yuwen clan in earnest.

Around 183 BC, relations between the Nanyue and the Han Dynasty soured, and Zhao Tuo began to refer to himself as an emperor ( suggesting Nanyue's sovereignty ).

Upon receiving their Imperial decrees, King Zhao and the Queen Dowager began planning to leave for Chang ' an.

Ban Biao began the Book of Han, which was completed by his son, Ban Gu and daughter Ban Zhao while their brother Ban Chao was a famous general who contributed his stories to expand the Book of Han.

Once the Prince of Changyi was installed as the emperor, however, he began to spend incessantly and otherwise act inappropriately during the period of mourning for Emperor Zhao.

In 354 BC, King Hui of Wei started a large-scale attack on Zhao.

In 214 BC, the Han general Zhao Tuo ( Vietnamese: Triệu Đà ) claimed most of southern China for Qin Shihuang before the emperor's death and the ensuing civil war permitted Zhao to establishment a separate kingdom at Panyu known as Southern Yue ( Nanyue ).

After witnessing Ying Zheng's massacre of the children in her home state of Zhao, the lady desires the assassination in earnest.

* Cao J., Zhao Y., Liu J., ( 1997 ), " Brick tea consumption as the cause of dental fluorosis among children from Mongol, Kazak and Yugu populations in China " Food Chem Toxicol 35 ( 8 ): 827-833

The young couple was childless, and Emperor Zhao did not have any other concubines who had children either.

It was alleged that Empress Zhao, with her sister covering for her, often engaged in adulterous acts with men who were known to have fathered many children, in hopes of becoming pregnant.

After the investigative report commissioned by Grand Empress Dowager Wang was published in 6 BC, accusing Consort Zhao Hede of the atrocities against the other imperial consorts and their children ( and implicitly, although not directly, accusing Empress Dowager Zhao of the same thing ), Empress Dowager Zhao's family was exiled, and the marquess titles granted to her brother and her nephew were removed.