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Understanding Chinese History Most people only know basic facts about Chinese history, like key events, important names, or ...
When it comes to the general awareness of Chinese history, people on average know it only in broad strokes. Some major events, certain names that crop up and so on, maybe the titles of a few dynasties ...
China, a massive country that spans over 9.6 million square kilometers, wasn’t always the unified empire we know today. From ...
"History is such an entity: it slumbers in darkness until an observer's perspective, like a beam of light, illuminates it.
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When the Qing Dynasty first took control over many parts of Taiwan in 1684, it roughly continued the Kingdom of Tungning’s administrative borders (see below), setting up one prefecture and three ...
Causes of decline Poets like Emperor Qianlong of the Qing dynasty often described the porpoise's playful antics, especially its tendency to leap from the water in stormy weather.
A rare Qing dynasty painting, titled "The Blue Goats," heads to auction at Sotheby's Hong Kong with a high estimate of $19 million.
Historically, people—including many prolific poets such as Qianlong, the emperor of the Qing dynasty—relied on the river and its tributaries to travel around the region.
They found that the Qing Dynasty (1636–1912 CE) had over half of the total porpoise poetry with 477 poems mentioning the Yangtze finless porpoise, followed by the Ming Dynasty (1368–1644 CE ...
The "Duck Dynasty" star has battled Alzheimer’s disease, a blood disorder and fractured vertebrae in his back.