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East Asia, spanning Mongolia, mainland China, Macau, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, and North and South Korea. Central and West Asia are better known as the “Near East” and the “Middle East”. By the same logic, East Asia has been referred to as the “Far East.”. All these terms are Western-centric, reflecting European geopolitics.
Chinese culture (simplified Chinese: 中华文化; traditional Chinese: 中華文化; pinyin: Zhōnghuá wénhuà) is one of the world's oldest cultures, originating thousands of years ago. [1] [2] The culture prevails across a large geographical region in East Asia with Sinosphere in whole and is extremely diverse, with customs and traditions ...
Xinjiang. Subjects. China. Political. Introduction. The Uyghurs constitute the majority ethnic group in the Tarim Basin, a region conquered by the Qing Empire in 1759 and then incorporated into a new administrative region of Xinjiang (New Territory).
The Great Leap Forward was the name of Mao Zedong's Second Five-Year Plan after the founding of the People's Republic of China. Its dramatic restructuring of the Chinese economy and society led to famine and economic disaster.
Establishment of the People’s Republic. The communist victory in 1949 brought to power a peasant party that had learned its techniques in the countryside but had adopted Marxist ideology and believed in class struggle and rapid industrial development. Extensive experience in running base areas and waging war before 1949 had given the Chinese ...
Both the "Beiyang government" (from 1912 to 1928), and the "Nationalist government" (from 1928 to 1949) used the name "Republic of China" as their official name. In Chinese, the official name was often shortened to Zhongguo (Chinese: 中國; lit. 'middle country'), Minguo (Chinese: 民國; lit. 'peoples' country'), or Zhonghua (Chinese: 中華 ...
Featured. Han Dynasty. China’s ancient Han Dynasty was known for its promotion of Confucianism and opening the Silk Road trade route to Europe, permanently altering the course of Chinese history.
