Emperor Xian of Han
Emperor of the Han dynasty from 189 to 220
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Lived 181–234, aged 53China
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Updated 2026-06-11
The last emperor of the Eastern Han dynasty never ruled. Liu Xie spent thirty-one years on the throne as a hostage passed between warlords — a legitimacy token in other men's wars, until one of them finally took the title for himself.
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Liu Xie became emperor at eight in 189 after the warlord Dong Zhuo deposed his half-brother and installed him as a puppet. When rival warlords rose against Dong Zhuo in 190, the general razed Luoyang and dragged the imperial court to Chang'an. After Dong Zhuo's assassination in 192, two of his former officers kept the boy emperor captive while regional powers acknowledged his legitimacy from a distance but sent no rescue. In 195 he escaped during a power struggle and reached the ruins of Luoyang, stranded, until Cao Cao arrived in 196 and took him to Xu. For the next two decades Cao Cao wielde…
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