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- Sun Yat-sen, the founding father of Republic of China, the oldest surviving republic in Asia.
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The Republic of China's first president, Sun Yat-sen, chose Zhonghua Minguo (Chinese: 中華民國; lit. 'Chinese people's state') as the country's official Chinese name.
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Mar 22, 2019 · • 221-206 B.C.: Qin Dynasty - The Qin Dynasty, from which China derives its name (Qin is pronounced “Chin”), was the first official empire in its history. The Qins standardized regional...
Those actions were officially ratified by the first meeting of the National People’s Congress in September 1954, which formally established the Central People’s Government and adopted the first constitution of the People’s Republic of China.
Feb 6, 2024 · February 06, 2024. A flag celebrating the establishment of the Republic of China, with photos of President Yuan Shikai (left) and interim President Sun Yat-sen. Credit: Wikimedia Commons. China’s...
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- Prehistory. Well before the advent of recognizable civilization in the region, the land was occupied by hominids. Peking Man, a skull fossil discovered in 1927 CE near Beijing, lived in the area between 700,000 to 300,000 years ago, and Yuanmou Man, whose remains were found in Yuanmou in 1965 CE, inhabited the land 1.7 million years ago.
- The First Dynasties. From these small villages and farming communities grew centralized government; the first of which was the prehistoric Xia Dynasty (c.
- The Zhou Dynasty. Around the year 1046 BCE, King Wu (r. 1046-1043 BCE), of the province of Zhou, rebelled against King Zhou of Shang and defeated his forces at the Battle of Muye, establishing the Zhou Dynasty (1046- 256 BCE).
- The Spring & Autumn Period & The Warring States. During the Spring and Autumn Period (c. 772-476 BCE and so called from the Spring and Autumn Annals, the official chronicle of the state at the time and an early source mentioning General Sun-Tzu), the Zhou government became decentralized in their move to the new capital at Luoyang, marking the end of the 'Western Zhou' period and the beginning of 'Eastern Zhou'.
The culture remembered by the earliest extant literature is that of the Zhou dynasty ( c. 1046 – 256 BCE), China's Axial Age, during which the Mandate of Heaven was introduced, and foundations laid for philosophies such as Confucianism, Taoism, Legalism, and Wuxing .
Republic of China (Taiwan) Culture. Economy. Education. Geography. Politics. 1912–1949. Mainland rule. 1945–present. Taiwan.