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Consort kin
Chinese name
Chinese
外戚
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin
wàiqī
IPA
[wâɪ.tɕʰí]
Yue: Cantonese
Yale Romanization
ngoih chīk
Vietnamese name
Vietnamese
ngoại thích
Korean name
Hangul
외척
Transcriptions
Revised Romanization
waecheog
Japanese name
Hiragana
がいせき
Transcriptions
Romanization
gaiseki
The consort kin (Chinese: 外戚; pinyin: wàiqì) were the kin or a group of people related to an empress dowager or a consort of a monarch or a warlord in the Sinosphere. The leading figure of the clan was either a (usually male) sibling, cousin, or parent of the empress dowager or consort.
Consort kins can be seen as a manifestation of nepotism in Sinospheric imperial politics. While some were competent, only relying on their female relatives for their initial audiences with the emperor and then proving their worth at their positions (e.g. Wei Qing and Huo Qubing), many turned out to be corrupt and incompetent (e.g. Yang Guozhong). Corrupt and incompetent consort kins have been linked to the downward turn of fortunes for many dynasties.
The consortkin (Chinese: 外戚; pinyin: wàiqì) were the kin or a group of people related to an empress dowager or a consort of a monarch or a warlord in...
progenitors of a certain kin, where the kin members meet and perform rites of unity and banquets. In Imperial times, a consortkin was a kin with special status...
dynasty which lasted from 9 to 23 AD, established by the Han dynasty consortkin Wang Mang, who usurped the throne of the Emperor Ping of Han and the...
the short-lived Chinese Xin dynasty. He was originally an official and consortkin of the Han dynasty and later seized the throne in 9 CE. The Han dynasty...
members of the male line, but there were numerous cases whereby the consortkins came to possess de facto power at the expense of the monarchs. This concept...
竇憲; Wade–Giles: Tou Hsien; died c.August 92) was a Chinese general and consortkin of the Eastern Han dynasty, famous for destroying the Xiongnu nomadic...
Từ Cung (1890–1980), mother of the last Vietnamese Emperor Bảo Đại. Consortkin Grand empress dowager Queen dowager and queen mother Valide sultan of...
campaigns against the Xiongnu, and his rags to riches life. He was a consortkin of Emperor Wu of Han as the younger half-brother of Emperor Wu's wife...
addition to Hongwu's aversion to eunuchs, he never consented to any of his consortkin becoming court officials. This policy was fairly well-maintained by later...
Bozhuo (伯卓), was a Chinese military general and politician. As a powerful consortkin, he dominated government in the 150s together with his younger sister...
empresses and queens consort of China. China has periodically been divided into kingdoms as well as united under empires, resulting in consorts titled both queen...
since neither respected the laws of the land. Liu Bo, Lady Li's son, had consortkin in the form of his uncle Li Guangli. In any case, before Emperor Wu's...
examples states whose kings used this term include: Han-Zhao: Jin Zhun, a consortkin who seized the Han government in a coup, proclaimed himself Heavenly...
British India. She was the second daughter of Limbin Mintha and his consortKin Me (Yenatha Khin Khin Gyi), the princess of Limbin. She was the great-granddaughter...
empire. This all culminated in a coup after his death in 318 led by the consortkin, Jin Zhun, who massacred the emperor and a large portion of the aristocracy...
dynasty official in China and consortkin who served under Emperors Wu and Zhao. His granddaughter later became the empress consort to Emperor Zhao. Shangguan...
181–234), second son Unknown Princess Wannian (萬年公主), first daughter Consortkin Chinese emperors family tree (early)#Han dynasty, Xin dynasty and Shu...
Can and their family were exterminated in a coup in by the powerful consortkin, Jin Zhun. Liu Yao and Shi Le joined forces to defeat Jin Zhun, during...
Jin Zhun (Chinese: 靳準; died 318) was an official and a member of the consortkin of the Xiongnu-led Han-Zhao dynasty of China who briefly usurped the...
health declined, Yang Jun sought to monopolize his control over Zhong as consortkin, first by sending away Sima Liang to Xuchang and then by forcing his...
was ignored, and instead powerful men like the prime minister (丞相) and consortkin – family heads whose daughters married into the imperial house – were...
controlled by the queen consort. Gojong tried to strengthen the king's authority by giving important positions to consortkins and royal family members...