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Disasters of Partisan Prohibitions

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Disasters of Partisan Prohibitions
Two political purges during the Eastern Han dynasty (166 and 169 AD) where powerful palace eunuchs imprisoned or executed scholar-officials and students who opposed them, leading to a ban on those individuals and their families holding office.