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GENERAL INTRODUCTION TO CHINA. No country in the world has a history longer than China’s. If you were to travel back in time over two thousand years, you would discover the Chinese state thriving where it is today, a strong government ruling over the largest country the world had ever known. And though you had traveled back before the time of ...
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recordforthename“China”(“zhongguo”or“centerunderheaven”). Under this prefecture-county administration, all authority was vested in the central government. For the first time in history, China’s writ-ten language, currency, and weights and measures were all unified and standardized. In order to consolidate and strengthen his ...
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known as Liao-hsi – was of great importance to the history of Manchuria. During the Ming this area was home to various groups of Eastern Mongols, who in Chinese records are often referred to as Tatars, though this term at times included Jurchens. Manchuria’s main ethnic group was the Jurchens, a people who in the
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Best Farming Practice in North China 361 A Book of Its Time 365 Estate and Peasant in Northern China 368 Agriculture in the South 371 17 The History of Sogdians in China 374 by R ONG X INJIANG 18 Northern Material Culture 384 by S HING M ÜLLER From Gray Pottery to Porcelaneous Stoneware 384 Lacquer: An Inherited Fascination 390
The late Neolithic appears to be a crucial time in Chinese history when new technologies, new ways of organizing society, and increased contacts between cultures occured. Social stratification, as seen in burial sites and grave goods became even more pronounced as the dynastic period began.
After a preliminary overview stressing economic and social history, the History presents a narrative of events in China's foreign relations to 1931, and in the political history of the Nationalist government and its Communist opponents from 1927 to 1937.
1. Political map of the Northern Sung, c. 1100pageiv 2. The Five Dynasties and the Ten Kingdoms, 907–960 2 3. The Sung domain and its neighbors, c. 1100–1291 18 4. North China, c. 895–905, showing Chu Wen’s expansion out of Honan 46 5. North China, c. 911–916, showing Li Ts’un-hsu’s conquest¨ of Hopei 63 6.
