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	History of China - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Chinese historians living in later periods were accustomed to the notion of one dynasty succeeding another, but the actual political situation in early China is known to have been much more complicated.
		The Chinese armies conquered Annam (安南) while the Chinese fleet sailed the China seas and the Indian Ocean, cruising as far as the east coast of Africa.
		Chinese historiography, for an article on scholarship influenced by post-modernism and periodization.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/History_of_China (5819 words)

	China - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Chinese civilization was also one of the few to invent writing independently, the others being ancient Mesopotamia (Sumerians), Ancient India (Indus Valley Civilization), the Mayan Civilization, and Ancient Egypt.
		Only about 6% of the mainland Chinese population in the PRC are avowed Buddhists, with Mahayana Buddhism and Zen Buddhism being the most widely practiced, in contrast to the combined 93% of the ROC (Taiwan) population who are devout adherents of a symbiotic combination of Buddhism, Taoism, and Confucianism.
		Chinese philosophers, writers, and poets were highly respected, and played key roles in preserving and promoting the culture of the empire.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/China (5554 words)

	Chinese Cultural Studies: A brief chinese chronology
		Chinese dating systems usually went by the year of a ruler's reign, which is not a useful system for modern historians.
		The warlike aristocracy which had reunited the Chinese lands was eliminated simultaneously with the new class of civil servant which had grown up in the course of the preceding period.
		The little Chinese cities of remote antiquity were only enclaves in the midst of vast extents of uncultivated land and did not extend beyond the limits of the lower basin of the Yellow River.
	acc6.its.brooklyn.cuny.edu /~phalsall/texts/chron.html (2132 words)

	Chinese Cultural Studies: Concise Political History of China
		The Ch'in empire stretched from the Mongolian plateau in the north to Vietnam in the south.
		In the Han Dynasty, the Huns (known as Hsiung-nu by the Chinese) threatened the expanding Chinese Empire from the north.
		All of the Ch'ing empire's vast territories, including Mongolia in the north, Xinjiang in the northwest, and Tibet in the southwest, were incorporated into the expanding Chinese Empire during this period.
	acc6.its.brooklyn.cuny.edu /~phalsall/texts/chinhist.html (16949 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: China
		The Chinese Empire, the largest political division of Eastern Asia, extends from 18°10' to 53°45' N. lat., and from 73°47' to 134°25' E. long.
		This includes the study of the Chinese language, literature, and composition, the various sciences studied in the West, history, geography, foreign languages, especially Japanese, gymnastic exercises and drills, and in the higher grades the study of political economy, and civil and international law.
		There is a Chinese record of a Roman embassy in A.D. The sea voyages of Arabs and the pilgrimages of Chinese Buddhists have thrown considerable light on the geography of Asia during the Middle Ages.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/03663b.htm (8648 words)

	The Challenge of Empire
		Administration was perhaps one of the most important thing to the Chinese emperors since it was not an easy job to maintain such a huge empire they had in China.
		Chinese emperors were all extolled by the public works they have done for his people, but it is well known that those public works were accomplished at an enormous cost of wealth and human life.
		Chinese believe history is a basic pattern that repeated itself over and over again.
	members.aol.com /wcai/paper-empire.html (1107 words)

	Transnational China Project Sponsored Commentary, Ross Terrill on the New Chinese Empire, April 24, 2003, Baker ...
		The Chinese empire was possessed of a sense of superiority, but it was also quite passive at times, and there were Chinese dynasties and reigns where it was felt that the non-Chinese peoples weren't worth bothering about.
		The Chinese system was also successful because the Son of Heaven was not a fanatic, this was not a theocracy, which was very important to the survival of the system.
		I have dwelt in The Chinese Empire on the importance of the nature of the Chinese empire for the nature of the Chinese State.
	www.ruf.rice.edu /~tnchina/commentary/terrill042403.html (5457 words)

	Gold Rush and Anti-Chinese Race Hatred - 1849
		By the time this was done, however, the Chinese had become the most conspicuous body of foreigners in the country and therefore had to bear the brunt of the attacks upon the foreign element.
		Most of the Chinese were in San Francisco, so the principal efforts were made in that city, The famous “pig-tail ordinance” required all convicted male prisoners to have their hair cut within one inch of their heads.
		This was more than could be borne by the much-oppressed laboring man, who claimed that the Chinese, were robbing him of his bread and, which was worse, the only one who benefitted by their labor was that other arch-enemy of the laboring man, the capitalist.
	www.sfmuseum.org /hist6/chinhate.html (3102 words)

	China_Empire
		The Chinese Empire I: From Unification to Disintegration
		Subsequently split into two: The Southern Xiongnu was subsequently assimilated by the Han civilization and eventually led the "Five Barbarian Tribes" (wuhu) in invasion of northern China in 4th century CE; the Northern Xiongnu was defeated by the Han forces in the 2nd century CE, and subsequently migrated westward.
		Ambitious eunuchs and their usurpation of power has been considered a recurring theme (though a minor motif) in several dynastic periods of Chinese history, but especially in the late-Han period and the Ming period.
	jan.ucc.nau.edu /~ckk/China_Empire.html (960 words)

	Information Division, Taipei Economic and Cultural Office (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The empire in China began in the 16th century B.C. with the Shang dynasty and ended with the Qing in 1912.
		The Chinese system of governance lasted for centuries because it was based on a working relationship between philosophies of Confucianism and Legalism.
		The Chinese regime will relax its authoritarian system to allow the emergence of more freedoms, economic development and a degree of political pluralism, or the regime will face social and political unrest as a result of being a WTO member.
	www.taipei.org /book/no032/empire.html (680 words)

	Archira.com -- The Chinese Empire
		However the earliest comprehensive history of China, the Historical Records by Sima Qian, a renowned Chinese historiographer of the 2nd century BC, begins perhaps 1300 years earlier, with an account of the Five Emperors.
		It was the first dynasty to embrace the philosophy of Confucianism, which became the ideological underpinning of all regimes until the end of imperial China.
		Emperor Wu (Han Wudi) consolidated and extended the Chinese empire by pushing back the Xiongnu (sometimes identified with the Huns) into the steppes of modern Inner Mongolia, wresting from them the modern areas of Gansu, Ningxia and Qinghai.
	www.archira.com /chinese.html (491 words)

	Dynasty Warriors 5: Empires (xbox360: 2006): Reviews
		In Dynasty Warriors 5 Empires, the armies of the kingdom are at your command.
		Empires makes the series bigger and better than ever with new scenarios, large scale battles, new policies and plenty of strategy to keep your mind fully engaged.
		Dynasty Warriors 5: Empires has been around the block a couple of million times by now, and its safe to say that the tricks being turned here are unlikely to surprise or please anyone besides the most hardcore fans.
	www.metacritic.com /games/platforms/xbox360/dynastywarriors5empires (1496 words)

	The American Empire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The Chinese empire from around 200 BC to around 200 AD was roughly comparable to the Roman Empire in population, wealth, civilization, and military security.
		Although the Chinese Empire was disrupted around 220 AD, when it returned to unity several centuries later, the Roman Empire had been reduced to its eastern portion, was shortly stripped of its North African and Middle Eastern possessions, and, after the Battle of Manzikert, turned into a small rump of once vast Roman imperium.
		And the complete takeover of the Chinese empire by outsiders - the Mongol (Yuan) and Manchu (Ching) dynasties - came roughly 800 and 1200 years after Rome fell.
	www.stanford.edu /group/wais/USA/us_1theamericanempire12103.html (522 words)

	History of Chinese Religion - ReligionFacts
		China is one of the most ancient civilizations on earth, and Chinese religion is one of the oldest forms of religion.
		This reflected the unified Chinese empire with its bureaucratic society.
		The Ch'ing Dynasty was founded not by the Han Chinese people who form the overwhelming majority of the population of China proper, but by the Manchus, a semi-nomadic people not even known by that name when they first rose to prominence in what is now northeastern China.
	www.religionfacts.com /chinese_religion/history.htm (3954 words)

	PREVIEW: The Real Empire
		And China's politics is that of an imperial state: governing over Chinese and non-Chinese alike largely by fiat; seeking to extend that rule over even more people, if necessary by force; and insisting on its right to do so by a modern version of a mandate from heaven.
		To sustain its legitimacy, Terrill points out, the new Chinese empire even pretends to be the heir to the old Chinese empire--revising history books, anthropological studies, museum exhibits, and maps to support its claims for Greater China.
		As opaque as decision-making normally is within the Chinese leadership, we were given some insight into what to expect from last November's turnover in the Chinese Communist party's leadership with the publication of "China's New Rulers: The Secret Files" by Andrew Nathan and Bruce Gilley.
	weeklystandard.com /Utilities/printer_preview.asp?idArticle=3036&... (3231 words)

	AncientChina.htm
		The first chinese coins were produced during the Zhou dynasty.
		Han dynasty was weakened by internal conflict and external invasions by Tartars in the north.
		China was divided for next 400 years into southern and northern empires and ruled by several dynasties.
	worldcoincatalog.com /AC/C1/China/AncientChina/AncientChina.htm (302 words)

	Amazon.com: The New Chinese Empire: And What It Means for the United States: Books: Ross Terrill (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Chinese participate in a variety of ways...refusal to attend meetings, local elections, protests against local cadres, letter writing (which Terrill dismisses offhand as 'petitioning the court'), etc.
		While Terrill argues that the nature of being "Chinese" is grounded in actual human policies and feelings, this idea of synergy skirts a "civilizations" reading of history: immutable, cultural characteristics of China which clash or complement characteristics of other countries/cultures.
		It provides a compelling and entertaining viewpoint on modern Chinese politics, and is best used as either an introduction to the subject, or as a useful complement to a straight history of modern China and the (not necessarily "Chinese") dynasties that preceded it.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0465084125?v=glance (2475 words)

	Han
		However, while traditional Chinese history portrays the Han as implementing immediate changes in government, evidence shows the Han continued to rule in the tradition of the Qin, and only gradually incorporated Confucian ideals into their Legalist form of government.
		Economic expansion, changing relationships with the people of the steppes, strengthening of the palace at the expense of the civil service, weakening of the state's hold on the peasantry, and the rise of the families of the rich and the gentry were all factors that led to the adoption of Confucian ideals..
		It is considered one dynasty by the Chinese because the second dynasty was founded by a member of the former Han dynasty who declared he had restored the Han Dynasty.
	www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/prehistory/china/early_imperial_china/han.html (1128 words)

	Chinese Empire - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Chinese Empire - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Mongol Empire, sprawling empire founded in the early 1200s by Mongol conqueror Genghis Khan.
		Yuan Shikai (1859-1916), Chinese military leader and statesman in the last years of the empire and the early republican period.
	encarta.msn.com /Chinese+Empire.html (150 words)

	Chinese Tribute System (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The Chinese Empire established a socalled tribute system in managing its relationship with countries that did not belong to the Empire but surrounded it as the nearest neighbours.
		The peoples surrounding the Chinese Empire were supposed to show respect to the Chinese Emperor by sending tributes to him in regular intervals and obeying to certain conventions.
		Instead of a system of treaties and conferences defining the international relations in Europe, the world under the influence of Confucian civilization was ruled by a set of rites which underlined the symbolic power of the Chinese Emperor.
	www.lcsc.edu /modernchina/u3s2p2.htm (143 words)

	The Chinese Empire Threatens the World (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		It is an empire, a nation of many cultures, many ethnic groups, chained together by the force of the PLA and the bloody repression of the Communist Party.
		The Chinese government is often racist in its treatment of minorities within its own borders.
		The Chinese army was well-organized, well-equipped, well-trained and determined, even in the face of massive losses.
	www.newsmax.com /archives/articles/2005/6/12/222013.shtml (1253 words)

	All Empires History Forum: Southern Mongolians and Manchurians (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		However, the Mongols didn't rebel because of that the Manchu emperors had become Chinese emperors, just like that Mongol tribes in their native homeland didn't rebel for that Kubilai Khan established Yuan empire in China.
		But when those conquered empires in China was collasped in the end, things would turn to be very different for those people in their native land.
		Nurhaci was the founder of Aisin Gurun(Manchu empire in Manchurian), his son Hong Taiji begun to conquer China and named his empire Amba Daicing Gurun(Great Qing empire in Manchurian), but he didn't achieve it.
	www.allempires.com /forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5228&PN=1 (2541 words)

	Amazon.ca: The New Chinese Empire: And What It Means for the United States: Books: Ross Terrill (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		It documents the Chinese government's ability (through its pretension to worldwide authority, its soaring military strength and its manipulation of the news - and therefore attitudes - for home consumption) to put western governments off balance in order to project its ethnocentric view of the world.
		For instance, in the case of Tibet, because the Tibetian govenment" sent missions to the Chinese court to pay deference as an insurance policy agains being attacked(P.36)" based on "the tribute system "since 17th century, the current Chinese communist govenment justify their occupation and Sinfication of Tibetian people.
		His claim that such people are BOTH Chinese and (say) American glosses over the experience of many who wrestle with belonging in both places and neither at the same time.
	www.amazon.ca /New-Chinese-Empire-United-States/dp/0465084125 (1379 words)

	Bits of Travel at Home (1878), “The Chinese Empire,” by Helen Hunt Jackson
		Inside, only darkness and dust and cobwebs, and two Chinese women eating something out of a bowl with chopsticks,—one bowl, resting on all four of their knees, pressed tight together, and the four chopsticks flying like shuttle-cocks, back and forth between their mouths and the bowl.
		I suppose it is Chinese for “Here’s your warm patches,” “Trowsers sewed up here;” or, if there is such a thing in the Chinese Empire as a constitution, and if they have a Woman’s Rights party, perhaps some wag has taught her to call.
		A lady, who had formerly been a missionary in China, had promised to go with us; and, as even she was not sure of being able to understand Chinese caterwauled, she proposed to take one of the boys from the missionary school, to interpret to her before she interpreted to us.
	www.yosemite.ca.us /library/bits_of_travel_at_home/chinese_empire.html (4126 words)

	China List : Chinese Government
		A north-eastern division of the Chinese Empire and the cradle of the present [1910]imperial dynasty.
		A Chinese perspective on the history, culture and religious life of Tibet.
		Text of the Chinese Exclusion Act which barred Chinese laborers from enteringthe United States and denied them naturalization.
	china-list.com /chinesegovernment/index.php (816 words)

	Chinese ( diaspora, economy, culture ) informations about trade in China
		The triumph of the “red capitalists” takes us to the Chinese sphere where rich tycoons are becoming new world leaders, to a China with gigantic projects.
		It treats of the characteristics of the Chinese sphere and of the distribution of Chinese communities in the planet.
		The Chinese Diaspora is with no doubt the biggest and the richest of the world.
	www.chinoisdefrance.com /chinese_empire.htm (1249 words)

	Imperial Era: II
		From Tang times until the closing days of the Qing empire in 1911, scholar-officials functioned often as intermediaries between the grass-roots level and the government.
		Domestic economic instability and military defeat in 751 by Arabs at Talas, in Central Asia, marked the beginning of five centuries of steady military decline for the Chinese empire.
		Misrule, court intrigues, economic exploitation, and popular rebellions weakened the empire, making it possible for northern invaders to terminate the dynasty in 907.
	www-chaos.umd.edu /history/imperial2.html (909 words)

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