Since the early Western Han Dynasty there had taken place a large-scale removal of merited personnel and high officials, their kith and kin and families to Changling to protect Emperor Wu Di's tomb.

Even earlier, in the 2nd Century BC, the Chinese emperor Hu of Wan, also known as Wudi or Han Wudi, had currency made from the skins of his white stags. The thought of leather money may seem ...

During his reign (140-87 B.C.), the most prosperous period of the Han Dynasty, Liu Che, Emperor Wudi, expanded the territory of the empire from the Central Plain to the Western Regions (present ...