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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 ...
28 May. The Qing dynasty signed the Treaty of Aigun, ceding to Russia the land north of the Amur River. June. Second Opium War: The Qing dynasty signed the Treaty of Tientsin, under which foreigners were granted greater freedom of movement within China and France and the United Kingdom were promised war reparations.
China,[i]officially the People's Republic of China(PRC),[j]is a country in East Asia. With a populationexceeding 1.4 billion, it is the world's 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.
Qin's wars of unification. Qin's wars of unification were a series of military campaigns launched in the late 3rd century BC by the state of Qin against the other six powers remaining in China — Han, Zhao, Yan, Wei, Chu and Qi. Between 247 and 221 BC, Qin had developed into one of the most powerful of China's Seven Warring States that ...
The Cambridge History of China. The Cambridge History of China is a series of books published by the Cambridge University Press (CUP) covering the history of China from the founding of the Qin dynasty in 221 BC to 1982 AD. The series was conceived by British historian Denis Twitchett and American historian John King Fairbank in the late 1960s ...
e. 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. It was ruled by the Kuomintang (KMT) as a one-party state (" Dang Guo ") while headquartered in Nanjing from 1927 until its ...
Chinese Empire (or Empire of China) is a term referring to the realm ruled by the Emperor of China during the era known as Imperial China. It was coined by western scholars and used to describe the Ming and Qing dynasties (or imperial Chinese dynasties in general). Another term was "Celestial Empire", in reference to the status of the emperor ...
Sima Qian (Chinese: 司馬遷; ([sɹ̩́mà tɕʰjɛ́n]); c. 145 – c. 86 BC) was a Chinese historian during the early Han dynasty. He is considered the father of Chinese historiography for his Records of the Grand Historian, a general history of China covering more than two thousand years beginning from the rise of the legendary Yellow ...