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  2. Chinese nobility - Wikipedia

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    Qin Shi Huang, founder of the Qin dynasty, created the title of Huangdi, which is translated as "emperor" in English.. The nobility of China represented the upper strata of aristocracy in premodern China, acting as the ruling class until c. 1000 CE, and remaining a significant feature of the traditional social structure until the end of the imperial period.

  3. Royal and noble ranks of the Qing dynasty - Wikipedia

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    The Qing dynasty, much like previous dynasties, used an "official rank" system (品; pǐn).This system had nine numbered ranks, each subdivided into upper and lower levels, in addition to the lowest "unranked" rank: from upper first pin (正一品), to lower ninth pin (從九品), to the unranked (未入流), for a total of 19 ranks.

  4. Nine-rank system - Wikipedia

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    The nine-rank system, also known as the nine-grade controller system, was used to categorize and classify government officials in Imperial China.Created in the state of Cao Wei during the Three Kingdoms, it was used until the Song dynasty, and similar ranking systems were also present in the Ming dynasty and Qing dynasty.

  5. Military ranks of Imperial China - Wikipedia

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    The Military ranks of Imperial China were the military insignia used by the Military of the Qing dynasty, until the abdication of the Xuantong Emperor. Army ranks

  6. Scholar-official - Wikipedia

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    The decoration of two egrets on his chest are a "mandarin square", indicating that he was a civil official of the sixth rank. The scholar-officials , also known as literati , scholar-gentlemen or scholar-bureaucrats ( Chinese : 士大夫 ; pinyin : shì dàfū ), were government officials and prestigious scholars in Chinese society, forming a ...

  7. Imperial, royal and noble ranks - Wikipedia

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    Wáng (王), the head of state of Ancient China. In ancient China it was a royal title, but later became a princely title. Bà Wáng (霸王), meaning "Hegemon-King" Tian Wang (天王), meaning "heavenly king" Yìxìng Wáng (異姓王), meaning "different surnamed king/prince". This title was granted to subjects as a peerage.

  8. Military of the Han dynasty - Wikipedia

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    The military of the Han dynasty was the military apparatus of China from 202 BC to 220 AD, with a brief interregnum by the reign of Wang Mang and his Xin dynasty from 9 AD to 23 AD, followed by two years of civil war before the refounding of the Han.

  9. Chinese noble titles in the imperial period - Wikipedia

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    During imperial China (221 BCE – CE 1911), a wide variety of noble titles were granted. Some of these were hereditary; an overlapping subset were honorary. At the beginning of imperial China, the administration of territory was growing out of the older fengjian system, and the central government asserting more control over the old aristocracy.