dynasty death_date given_name family_name birth_date article_title reign
tang dynasty september 22 , 904 originally , 900 jíe -lrb- 傑 -rrb- , -- december 1 lǐ -lrb- 李 -rrb- march 31 , 867 emperor zhaozong of tang
 january 24 , 901 -- september 22 , 904
emperor zhaozong of tang

emperor zhaozong of tang -lrb- -rrb- -lrb- march 31 , 867 -- september 22 , 904 -rrb- , né li jie -lrb- 李傑 -rrb- , name later changed to li min -lrb- 李敏 -rrb- , yet later name changed to li ye -lrb- 李曄 -rrb- , was the penultimate emperor of the tang dynasty of china .
he reigned from 888 to 904 -lrb- although he was briefly deposed by the eunuch liu jishu in 900 and restored in 901 -rrb- .
zhaozong was the seventh son of emperor yizong of tang and younger brother of emperor xizong of tang .
during emperor zhaozong 's reign , tang dynasty fell into total disarray and rebellions , which had been ongoing since the reign of his older brother emperor xizong , broke out throughout the country while the imperial government 's authority effectively disappeared .
in the midst of all this , emperor zhaozong tried to salvage the dying dynasty .
his efforts to reassert imperial power , however , generally backfired , as his unsuccessful campaigns against li keyong , chen jingxuan , and li maozhen , merely allowed li keyong and li maozhen to reaffirm their power by prevailing over imperial forces , while chen was merely conquered and replaced by wang jian .
eventually , the major warlord zhu quanzhong seized control of the imperial government and in 904 had emperor zhaozong killed as the prelude of taking over the tang throne .
zhu also killed many of emperor zhaozong 's ministers , including the chancellor , cui yin .
zhu then placed zhaozong 's 13-year-old son as a puppet emperor -lrb- as emperor ai -rrb- .
-lrb- by 907 , zhu himself took over the throne , ending tang and starting a new later liang . -rrb-
emperor zhaozong 's reign lasted almost 16 years and he was buried in heling -lrb- 和陵 -rrb- .
he was 37 .
