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Asia’s First Republic The Birth and Development of the Modern Chinese State October 24 Arkansas Studies Institute 401 Clinton Ave. 2:00 p.m. free & open to the public For more info, contact Dr. Jeff Kyong-McClain at jwkyongmccl@ualr.edu Dr. Lane J. Harris Dr. Harris is Assistant Professor of History and Asian Studies at Furman University.
Apr 22, 2024 · Located in the western Pacific Ocean, the island of Taiwan lies roughly 100 miles (160 km) off the coast of southeastern China. Taipei, in the north, is the seat of government of the Republic of China (ROC; Nationalist China). In 1949 Chinese communist armies defeated Nationalist forces on the mainland and established the People’s Republic of ...
Feb 6, 2024 · China’s last dynasty fell in 1912, and the Republic of China was born. The next 37 years – a period of internal conflict and foreign invasion – are often viewed as a historical interregnum ...
Oct 19, 2023 · Chinese archaeologists recently unearthed what may be evidence supporting the existence of one of the Chinese empire ’s 4,000-year-old creation myths. The Xia dynasty was the first of many ancient Chinese ruling houses, thought to exist from around 2070 B.C.E. until 1600 B.C.E. Yet the actual existence of this dynasty and culture has been ...
The name Mongolia means the "Land of the Mongols" in Latin. The Mongolian word "Mongol" (монгол) is of uncertain etymology, given variously as the name of a mountain or river; as a corruption of the Mongolian Mongkhe-tengri-gal ("Eternal Sky Fire"); or as a derivation from Mugulü, the 4th-century founder of the Rouran Khaganate, first attested as the 'Mungu', (Chinese: 蒙兀, Modern ...
Taiwan, [II] [k] officially the Republic of China ( ROC ), [I] [l] is a country [27] in East Asia. [o] It is located at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the northeast, and the Philippines to the south.
Dec 6, 2023 · Also, a central motif of Chinese art — the paired dragon and tiger, symbolizing water and wind in Chinese cosmology — first appears during this period. The earliest known example is a river-shell mosaic representation from c. 5300 B.C.E., excavated in a royal grave at Xishuipo, Henan province.
