# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/wanli-emperor
# Generated: 2026-08-31T18:41:24.520Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/wanli-emperor"
name: "Wanli Emperor"
slug: "wanli-emperor"
description: "The boy-emperor who reigned for 48 years but spent the second half refusing to meet his own officials. His withdrawal broke the Ming state's machinery long before the dynasty fell."
tagline: "Emperor of the Ming Dynasty (1563-1620)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/%E6%98%8E%E7%A5%9E%E5%AE%97.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "CN"
category:
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profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2798645"
birthDate: "1563-09-04"
deathDate: "1620-08-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.562941100988066
  historical:           23.335312
  currentAttention:     8.68300611660037
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
tags:
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  - name: "Politics"
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  - name: "Early Modern Era"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Zhu Yijun took the throne at nine in 1572, and for a decade Grand Secretary Zhang Juzheng ran the empire brilliantly—prosperity returned, the military surged, power matched the early 1400s. After Zhang died in 1582, the emperor dismantled his arrangements and faced a cascade of crises: he crushed a rebellion in Ningxia in 1592, then threw 40,000 soldiers into Korea to repel two Japanese invasions, then put down Yang Yinglong's uprising in the southwest by 1599. The Jurchens mauled his forces at Sarhu in 1619 and seized Liaodong. But the rot was internal: for fifteen years his officials blocked him from naming his favored third son as heir, and by the 1580s the constant attacks from the bureaucracy had hollowed him out. He tried building a parallel eunuch administration in 1596, gave up in 1606, and spent his final decades invisible—present in title, absent in fact. He died in 1620, and the machinery he'd abandoned lurched on without him.