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Yang Tinghe

Ming dynasty official (1459–1529)

Field	Value
name	Yang Tinghe
image	Yang Tinghe.png
office	21st and 23rd Senior Grand Secretary
term	1512–1515
predecessor	Li Dongyang
successor	Liang Chu
monarch	Zhengde Emperor
term1	1517–1524
predecessor1	Liang Chu
successor1	Jiang Mian
monarch1	Jiajing Emperor
office2	Minister of Revenue (Southern Capital)
term2	1507
predecessor2	Gao Quan
successor2	Zhang Jin
monarch2	Zhengde Emperor
birth_date	15 October 1459
birth_place	Xindu, Chengdu, Ming China
death_date
death_place	Xindu, Chengdu, Ming China
relations	Yang Shen (son)

Yang Tinghe (; 15 October 1459 – 25 July 1529), style name Jiefu, was a Grand Secretary in the Ming dynasty under the Zhengde (Wuzong) and Jiajing (Shizong) emperors. Yang was born and died in Xindu, Sichuan province, China.

Biography

Yang Tinghe earned the Jinshi degree in the imperial examination in 1478 at the age of 19.

After the death of the Zhengde Emperor in 1521, Yang became the de facto policymaker of the imperial government for 37 days. He conducted a series of reforms in these 37 days and abolished many unpopular legacies of the Zhengde Emperor, including the arrest of his favorite, general Jiang Bin. Yang played an important role in choosing the young Zhu Houcong (then Prince Xing and a cousin of the late Zhengde) as the next emperor.

After Zhu Houcong was brought to Beijing from his parents' estate in the Hubei countryside and enthroned as the Jiajing Emperor, Yang Tinghe tried to continue his influence in the court, given the young age of the new emperor. However, the Grand Secretary disagreed with the emperor as to whom the latter should venerate as his dead father. Yang Tinghe was forced to retire after his political failure during this so-called Great rites controversy in 1524.

Family

The poets Yang Shen and Huang E were Yang Tinghe's son and daughter-in-law.

References

"[https://books.google.com/books?id=067On0JgItAC&pg=PA230 Chiang Pin]" in the ''Dictionary of Ming biography, 1368-1644, Volume 2'', p. 232

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