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Rh Liu Ch*ang ^i^ or Liu Chi-hBing j||j^. Sod of Liu Shdng, whom he succeeded in 958 as fourth and last ruler of the Southern Han State. He was only sixteen at his accession, and fell at once into the power of the eunuchs, who during his father's reign had already begun to monopolise the go?ernment. In 971 the armies of the House of Sung overran his kingdom; more than a hundred eunuchs were executed and he himself was taken to the capital, where he received the title of J^ H^ ^ the Pardoned Marquis.

Liu Ch*ang-yu ^-^jj^^ Died A.D. 1885. A native of Hunan, who graduated as chin ahih in 1849. Rose to be Viceroy of Cbihli in 1863, and was appointed Special Commissioner with full powers for the suppression of the Nien fei in that province and also in Shantung and Honan. In 1875 he was appointed Viceroy of Ydnnan and Eueichou. In 1881 he applied for leave to retire, but was ordered to Peking.

Liu Chao ^||. A.D. 80--.106. Fourth son of Liu Ta, whom he succeeded in 89 as fourth Emperor of the Eastern Han dynasty. His mother, who was a concubine, was put to death by the Empress Ton (see Liang Sung); and he himself was brought up by the latter as if he had been her own child. His reign was troubled throughout by incursions of the Hsiung-nu, due in a great measure to his disgraceful treatment of Tou Hsien and to the latter*s disappearance from the arena in which he had already gained so much renown. An embassy was sent however from Parthia to the Chinese Court, bearing tribute in the form of lions ^^^ tfe -K (^)- Canonised as ^$ft\ M.^-

Liu Cli*e ^#. B.C. 156-87. Son of Liu Ch*i, whom he succeeded in 140 as sixth sovereign of the Han dynasty. He began his reign as an enthusiastic patron of literature. In 136 copper coins were cast, the forerunners of the present cash. In the same