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A Mexican fandango from the 19th century. In the image a china woman can be seen dancing with her characteristic fine attire, to the sound of a harp.. The fashion design of the china poblana dress is attributed to Catarina de San Juan, although it certainly incorporates elements from the diverse cultures that were mixed in New Spain during three centuries of Spanish rule.
The Empresa de China ("China enterprise") was a long-time projected conquest of China by the Spanish Empire. Proposed repeatedly through the 16th century as a natural culmination of the conquest of the Philippines, it involved the invasion and assimilation of the Ming dynasty by a coalition that would include Spaniards, Portuguese, Spanish ...
The social structure of China has an expansive history which begins from the feudal society of Imperial China to the contemporary era. [ 1 ] There was a Chinese nobility, beginning with the Zhou dynasty. However, after the Song dynasty, the powerful government offices were not hereditary. Instead, they were selected through the imperial ...
Europeans in Medieval China. Appearance. 1342 tomb of Katarina Vilioni, member of an Italian trading family, in Yangzhou. Given textual and archaeological evidence, it is thought that thousands of Europeans lived in Imperial China during the Yuan dynasty. [ 1 ] These were people from countries traditionally belonging to the lands of Christendom ...
China,[h]officially the People's Republic of China(PRC),[i]is a country in East Asia. With a populationexceeding 1.4 billion, it is the second-most populous countryafter India, representing 17.4% of the world population. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and borders fourteen countries by land.
The Republic of China (ROC) began as a country in mainland China. [f] It was established on 1 January 1912 after the 1911 Revolution, which overthrew the Manchu -led Qing dynasty and ended China's imperial history. From 1927, the Kuomintang (KMT) ruled the country as a one-party state ("Dang Guo") and made Nanjing the national capital.
The history of China spans several millennia across a wide geographical area. Each region now considered part of the Chinese world has experienced periods of unity, fracture, prosperity, and strife. Chinese civilization first emerged in the Yellow River valley, which along with the Yangtze basin constitutes the geographic core of the Chinese ...
Social issues in China. Social issues in China are wide-ranging, and are a combined result of Chinese economic reforms set in place in the late 1970s, the nation's political and cultural history, and an immense population. Due to the significant number of social problems that have existed throughout the country, China's government has faced ...