Emperor Xiaoming of Northern Wei (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Emperor Xiaoming of Northern Wei ((510 - March 31, 528), personal name Yuan Xu, was an emperor of the Chinese/Xianbei dynasty Northern Wei. Due to his young age (five) when he ascended the throne at 515, governmental matters were dominated by his mother Empress Dowager Hu (with an intervening regency by the official Yuan Cha from 520 to 525), whose overly lenient attitude toward officials' corruptions spurred many agrarian rebellions that threw essentially the entire state into war.