Ming Zhu (明珠), full name Na Lan Ming Zhu, a Manchu, was an eminent and powerful Qing Dynasty official during the reign of Kangxi Emperor of China. The Manchu (Manchu: Manju; Simplified Chinese: 满æ; Traditional Chinese: 滿æ; pinyin: ) are an ethnic group who originated in the dong bei or North East region consisting of Liaoning, Jilin, and Heilongjiang provinces, collectively known in English as Manchuria. ... The Qing Dynasty (Manchu: daicing gurun; Chinese: æ¸ æ; pinyin: qÄ«ng cháo; Wade-Giles: ching chao), sometimes known as the Manchu Dynasty, was founded by the Manchu clan Aisin Gioro, in what is today northeast China, expanded into China proper and the surrounding territories of Inner Asia, establishing... The KÄngxÄ« Emperor (born Xuányè (çç) May 4, 1654 â December 20, 1722) was the third Emperor of the Manchu Qing dynasty, and the second Qing emperor to rule over all of China, from 1661 to 1722. ...
He presented himself to young Kangxi when Kangxi visited his friend Wu Ciyou, who was actually the unofficial imperial teacher of Kangxi. He became a "Zhong Tang", which was a high ranking official but was sent to prison for corruption and various other charges in his final years.
He was a brother of Hui Fei, a concubine of Emperor Kangxi who bore the emperor his first surviving son. This article needs cleanup, so as to conform to a higher standard. ...
ZhuMing is one the most important performance artists of the avant-garde.
Whether seen in the flesh or in photographs, ZhuMings performances, through his raw display of his naked body, are controversial works that call attention to the vulnerability and aloneness of all humankind.
ZhuMing's performance works involve a considerable degree of stress to the individual's (artist's) body.
Zhu Di of Yan was Hongwu's fourth son; his mother was probably a lesser consort, but he later claimed he was the son of Empress Ma.
During a struggle for power in Annam (northern Vietnam) a Ming army of 215,000 invaded in 1406, and it was declared a Chinese province; but a liberation movement began in 1408, accelerated in 1418, and was a problem Yongle left to his successors.
Zhu Gaoxu was reduced to a commoner and died from torture.