Chinese Sovereign

Chinese sovereign is the ruler of a particular period in ancient China. Several titles and naming schemes have been used throughout history.

Read more about Chinese Sovereign:  How To Read The Titles of A Chinese Sovereign, Rules of Thumb and Tips, Self-made Titles, Foreign Titles Taken By Chinese Rulers, Some Common Conventions

Famous quotes containing the words chinese and/or sovereign:

    “Only by the form, the pattern,
    Can words or music reach
    The stillness, as a Chinese jar still
    Moves perpetually in its stillness.”
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

    “If a Sovereign should, by great accident, deviate into moderation, justice, and clemency, what a contemptible figure would he make in the catalogue of Princes!”
    —Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)