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Sima Liang (  ) ( died 291 ) , courtesy name Ziyi (  ) , formally Prince Wencheng of Ru ' nan (  ) , was briefly a regent during the reign of Emperor Hui during ___MASK41___ ( 265 - 420 ) . He was the first of the eight princes commonly associated with the War of the Eight Princes . ___MASK50___ , officially the People ' s Republic of ___MASK50___ ( PRC ), is a unitary sovereign state in East Asia . With a population of over 1 . 381 billion , it is the world ' s most populous country . The state is governed by the Communist Party of ___MASK50___ , and its capital is Beijing . It exercises jurisdiction over 22 provinces , five autonomous regions , four direct - controlled municipalities ( Beijing , Tianjin , Shanghai , and Chongqing ), and two mostly self - governing special administrative regions ( Hong Kong and Macau ), and claims sovereignty over Taiwan . The country ' s major urban areas include Shanghai , Guangzhou , Beijing , Chongqing , Shenzhen , Tianjin and Hong Kong . ___MASK50___ is a great power and a major regional power within Asia , and has been characterized as a potential superpower . The Book of Jin is an official Chinese historical text covering the history of the ___MASK41___ from 265 to 420 . It was compiled in 648 by a number of officials commissioned by the imperial court of the ___MASK56___ , with chancellor Fang Xuanling as the lead editor , drawing mostly from official documents left from earlier archives . A few essays in volumes 1 , 3 , 54 and 80 were composed by the ___MASK56___ ' s Emperor Taizong himself . The contents of the " Book of Jin ", however , included not only the history of the ___MASK41___ , but also that of the Sixteen Kingdoms period , which was contemporaneous with the Eastern ___MASK41___ . The War of the Eight Princes , Rebellion of the Eight Kings or Rebellion of the Eight Princes was a series of civil wars among kings / princes ( Chinese : " wáng "  ) of the Chinese ___MASK41___ from AD 291 to 306 . The key point of contention in these conflicts was the regency over the developmentally disabled Emperor Hui of Jin . The term stems from biographies of eight princes collected in chapter 59 of the " Book of Jin " (" Jinshu "). ___MASK83___ (" Nippon " or " Nihon " ; formally "" or " Nihon - koku ", means " State of ___MASK83___ ") is a sovereign island nation in Eastern Asia . Located in the Pacific Ocean , It is lying off the eastern coast of the Asia Mainland ( east of ___MASK50___ , Korea , Russia ) and stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East ___MASK50___ Sea and near Taiwan in the southwest . ___MASK88___ , officially the Socialist Republic of ___MASK88___ ( SRV ), is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia . With an estimated 90 . 5 million inhabitants , it is the world ' s 14th - most - populous country , and the eighth - most - populous Asian country . ___MASK88___ is bordered by ___MASK50___ to the north , Laos to the northwest , Cambodia to the southwest , Thailand across the Gulf of Thailand to the southwest , and the Philippines , Malaysia and Indonesia across the South ___MASK50___ Sea to the east and southeast . Its capital city has been Hanoi since the reunification of North and South ___MASK88___ in 1976 . ___MASK6___ is a historical state in East Asia , since 1945 divided into two distinct sovereign states : ___MASK79___ ( officially the " Democratic People ' s Republic of ___MASK6___ ") and ___MASK75___ ( officially the " Republic of ___MASK6___ "). Located on the Korean Peninsula , ___MASK6___ is bordered by ___MASK50___ to the northwest and Russia to the northeast . It is separated from Japan to the east by the ___MASK6___ Strait and the East Sea . Emperor Hui of Jin ( 259 - January 8 , 307 ), personal name Sima Zhong (  ), courtesy name Zhengdu (  ), was the second emperor of the ___MASK41___ ( 265 - 420 ). Emperor Hui was a developmentally disabled ruler , and throughout his reign , there was constant internecine fighting between regents , imperial princes ( his uncles and cousins ), and his wife Empress Jia Nanfeng for the right to control him ( and therefore the imperial administration ), causing great suffering for the people and greatly undermining the stability of the Jin regime , eventually leading to Wu Hu rebellions that led to Jin ' s loss of northern and central ___MASK50___ and the establishment of the competing Sixteen Kingdoms . He was briefly deposed by his granduncle Sima Lun , who usurped the throne himself , in 301 , but later that year was restored to the throne and continued to be the emperor until 307 , when he was poisoned , likely by the regent Sima Yue . A courtesy name (" zi "), also known as a style name , is a name bestowed upon one at adulthood in addition to one ' s given name . This practice is a tradition in East Asian cultures , including ___MASK50___ , Japan , Korea , and Vietnam .