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The Dwarf Empire (Chinese: 小矮人帝国) is a theme park near Kunming, China that features comic performances by people with dwarfism.Locals and supporters of the park claim that it provides employment to people who would otherwise be unable to find work, but it has been criticized by western culture, for treating dwarfism as a humorous condition.
Map showing the Seven Warring States; there were other states in China at the time, but the Seven Warring States were the most powerful and significant. The Seven Warring States or Seven Kingdoms (traditional Chinese: 戰國七雄; simplified Chinese: 战国七雄; pinyin: zhàn guó qī xióng) were the seven leading hegemonic states during the Warring States period (c. 475 to 221 BC) of ...
The Warring States was a great period for military strategy; of the Seven Military Classics of China, four were written during this period: The Art of War It is attributed to Sun Tzu, a highly influential study of strategy and tactics. [18] Wuzi It is attributed to Wu Qi, a statesman and commander who served the states of Wei and then Chu. Wei ...
The Sino-Indian War between China and India occurred in October–November 1962. A disputed Himalayan border was the main cause of the war. There had been a series of violent border skirmishes between the two countries after the 1959 Tibetan uprising, when India granted asylum to the Dalai Lama.
By the time of death of Cao Cao, the most successful warlord of North China, in 220, the Han empire was divided between the three rival states of Cao Wei, Shu Han and Eastern Wu. Due to the ensuing turmoil, the competing powers of the Three Kingdoms era found no shortage of willing recruits for their armies, although press-ganging as well as ...
Xiang Yu and Liu Bang went on to fight for control over China in a conflict known as the Chu–Han Contention, which ended with Liu Bang's victory in 202 BC. Liu Bang then established the Han dynasty as the ruling dynasty, ultimately inheriting and consolidating much of what had been initially conceived by the Qin dynasty.
[1] [2] The wokou were made of various ethnicities of East Asian ancestry, which varied over time and raided the mainland from islands in the Sea of Japan and East China Sea. [3] Wokou activity in Korea declined after the Treaty of Gyehae in 1443 [1] but continued in Ming China and peaked during the Jiajing wokou raids in the mid-16th century ...
The Rebellion of the Seven States or Revolt of the Seven Kingdoms (simplified Chinese: 七国之乱; traditional Chinese: 七國之亂; pinyin: Qī Guózhī Luàn) took place in 154 BC against the rule of Emperor Jing of Han dynasty by its regional semi-autonomous kings, to resist the emperor's attempt to centralize the government further. [1]