On the Prince's Regulation of the State in the Tang Dynasty

The prince's regulation of the state was an important phenomenon in the political life of the Tang Dynasty.The prince's regulation of the state in the Tang Dynasty can be classified into many sorts: the prince's usurping the imperial power;the prince's regulating the state when the emperor was perambulating,the prince's regulating the state when the emperor was ill and the prince's regulating the state when ministers or eunuchs attempted to abolished the emperor,etc.Generally,when the prince had the imperial power,he could control the whole state.The prince's regulation of the state in the Tang Dynasty not only reflected the internal strife within the ruling clique but also exposed the predicament in feudalist China's emperors' inheritance system