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Eastern Han

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Three Kingdoms

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Western Jin

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Jin

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Sixteen Kingdoms

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Eastern Jin

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Southern & Northern Dynasties

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Sui Dynasty

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Tang Dynasty
(interrupted by Second Zhou)

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Liao

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Northern Song

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Song

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Jin

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Western Xia

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Southern Song

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Yuan Dynasty

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Ming Dynasty

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Qing Dynasty

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Republic of China

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People's Republic of China
1949-1976
1976-1989
1989-2002
2002-present

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The Xin Dynasty (Chinese: 新朝; pinyin: Xīn Cháo; literally "New Dynasty"; 8-23) was a "dynasty" (even though, contrary to the usual meaning of a dynasty, it had but one emperor) in Chinese history. It followed the Western Han Dynasty and preceded the Eastern Han Dynasty.

The Xin Dynasty's sole emperor, Wang Mang (王莽) was the nephew of Grand Empress Dowager Wang Zhengjun, and he became powerful after the death of her step-grandson, Emperor Ai in 1 BC. After several years of cultivating a personality cult, he finally took over as emperor in 8 AD. However, while he was a creative scholar and politician, he was an incompetent ruler, and his capital Chang'an was sieged in 23 AD by peasant rebels. He died in the siege.

See Wang Mang for more information.

**Xin Dynasty Sovereigns**
Personal name	Period of reign	Era names (年號) and their according range of years
Wang Mang	9-23	Shijianguo (始建國 shi3 jian4 guo1, "Start to establish a nation") 9- 13 Tianfeng (天鳳 tian1 feng1, "Heavenly Feng") 14-19 Dihuang (地皇 di4 huang2, "Earthly Emperor") 20-23