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Le Thanh Tong (died 1497, Dong Kinh [now Hanoi, Vietnam]) was the greatest ruler of the Later Le dynasty (q.v.; 1428–1788) in Vietnam. Though the early years of his reign were marked by a struggle for power, he eventually developed a governmental power base. He established a Chinese-style centralized administration and expanded dynastic ...
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Dec 30, 2020 · History of medieval Vietnam has witnessed many state reforms, of which the one of King Le Thanh Tong (1442 –1497) was the most comprehensive, profound and successful, creating a turning point to bring Dai Viet country or Great Viet (the former name of Viet Nam) into the most flourishing period in its history.
In 1471 Le Thanh Tong, the greatest of the Le rulers, permanently subjugated Champa. Le Thanh Tong divided Vietnam into 13 provinces or circuits, based on the Chinese model, and established a triennial Confucian civil service examination. He also promulgated a new legal code, the Hong Duc code. This administrative system showed some Chinese ...
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Article 344 of the Nguyen dynasty code and Article 305 of the Le dynasty code both forbade self-castration and castration of Vietnamese men. [26] Self-castration of Vietnamese men was banned by Lê Thánh Tông, the emperor, in 1464. [27] The Vietnamese under Emperor Le Thanh Tong cracked down on foreign contacts and enforced an isolationist ...
Feb 28, 2018 · Le Thanh Tong ascended the throne in 1460 when he was 18 years old and died when he was 56. He was considered the most talented ruler in feudal Vietnam as assessed by “Dai Viet Su Ky toan thu” (the Complete Book of the Historical Record of Great Viet): “The King founded a strong state, expanded the territory and brought prosperity to the nation; he was truly a talented, heroic ruler who ...
5 minute podcast on Lê Thánh Tông, the visionary Vietnamese ruler who implemented wide-ranging administrative reforms to strengthen Dai Viet. Discover the Khach Quan system, Thien Huong and Bat Dat policies, and Da Tai system that transformed the bureaucracy, land distribution, and official selection. Explore the propagation of Confucianism, its impact on societal values, and the long-term ...
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politics of the Le court were dominated by tensions between the scholar-official families of Tongking and the less deeply Confucian clans of Thanh-Hoa, the emperor's own province of origin. The triumph of Le Thanh-tong's reign (1460-97) was based on a compromise between these two groups, which allowed the scholars to undertake their reforms.
