country |continent common_name era conventional_long_name native_name article_title region stat_area
china asia eastern wei in exile -rrb- -- > eastern wei 東魏 eastern wei
 east asia 1000000
eastern wei

the eastern wei -lrb- -rrb- followed the disintegration of the northern wei , and ruled northern china from 534 to 550 .
in 534 gao huan , the potentate of the eastern half of what was northern wei territory following the disintegration of the northern wei dynasty installed yuan shanjian a descendant of the northern wei as ruler of eastern wei .
yuan shanjian was a puppet ruler as the real power lay in the hands of gao huan .
several military campaigns were launched against the neighboring western wei in an attempt to reunify the territory once held by the northern wei , however these campaigns were not successful , and in 547 gao huan died .
his sons gao cheng and gao yang were able to pursue his policy of controlling the emperor , but in 550 gao yang deposed yuan shanjian and founded his own dynasty , the northern qi .
