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Jingtai Emperor

  • ... that the Jingtai Emperor was rumored to have been strangled to death by a eunuch just one month after being deposed in a palace coup?
  • Source: Goodrich, L. Carington; Fang, Chaoying (1976). Dictionary of Ming Biography, 1368-1644. New York: Columbia University Press. p. 297. ISBN 0-231-03801-1.
  • Reviewed:
Improved to Good Article status by Min968 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

Min968 (talk) 05:55, 2 February 2025 (UTC).

  • The article is a recent GA and, unsurprisingly, meets all of DYK's article requirements. The hook needs some tweaking though. The article states that one 15th-century source claims that the emperor was strangled by a eunuch. The hook suggests that this is widely accepted as true. Surtsicna (talk) 17:05, 3 February 2025 (UTC)

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