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Encyclopedia > Western Yan
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The Western Yan (Simplified Chinese character: 西燕, Traditional Chinese character: 西燕, pinyin Xīyàn) (384-394) was a state of Xianbei ethnicity during the era of Sixteen Kingdoms in China.


All rulers of the Former Yan declared themselves "emperors".


Rulers of the Western Yan

Temple names Posthumous names Family names and given name Durations of reigns Era names and their according durations
Chinese convention: use family name and given name
Did not exist Wēi (威) 慕容泓 Mùróng Hóng 384 Yanxing (燕興 Yànxīng) 384
Did not exist Did not exist 慕容沖 Mùróng Chōng 384-386 Yanxing (燕興 Yànxīng) 384
Gengshi (更始 Gèngshǐ) 385-386
Did not exist Did not exist 段隨 Duàn Suí 386 Changping (昌平 Chāngpíng) 386
Did not exist Did not exist 慕容顗 Mùróng Yǐ 386 Jianming (建明 Jiànmíng) 386
Did not exist Did not exist 慕容瑤 Mùróng Yáo 386 Jianping (建平 Jiànpíng) 386
Did not exist Did not exist 慕容忠 Mùróng Zhōng 386 Jianwu (建武 Jiànwǔ) 386
Did not exist Did not exist 慕容永 Mùróng Yǒng 386-394 Zhongxing (中興 Zhōngxīng) 386-394

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Western Liang - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (117 words)
The Western Liang (Chinese character: 西凉, Hanyu pinyin Xī Liáng) (400-421) was a state of the Sixteen Kingdoms in China.
The founder of the Tang Dynasty, Li Yuan (Emperor Gaozu), traced his ancestry to the Western Liang rulers.
All rulers of the Western Liang proclaimed themselves "wang".
Translation as Manipulation: a Case Study (2666 words)
Yan's other added words meant that protection of individual liberty is helpful to the liberty of the state, but he laid more emphasis on the distinction between state power and individual liberty and strengthened his view that the state liberty counts more than individual liberty.
Whether Yan was conscious of it or not, some of his notes did not match the themes of the paragraphs, and Yan was suspected of manipulating the notes for his own purpose.
Yan Fu said in the translator's note that the source text was profound in both thought and language and he had to restructure it to make it intelligible.
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