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History
At a glance The Sui dynasty (581 to 618 CE) reunified China after almost three centuries of division under the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and it did so through a combination of military conquest, dynastic consolidation, and infrastructure investment.
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Khubilai Khan, who would reign as emperor of a Chinese-style state from 1271 to 1294 and who would be remembered in European memory as the superlative monarch of the Mongol world, was born in 1215 at a Mongol camp on the edge of the Asian steppe, the grandson of Genghis Khan and the son of Tolui's son.
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The Catastrophe of 1860 and the Birth of a Programme In the autumn of 1860, an Anglo-French expeditionary force, having fought its way up the coast from the Pearl River, occupied the emperor’s summer palace at Yuanmingyuan in the hills northwest of Beijing and burned it to the ground.
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A Midnight Detonation On the night of 9 October 1911, in a bomb magazine owned by the Hubei Provincial Army in the southern suburb of Wuchang, a charcoal brazier was knocked over during the manufacture of a routine propellant charge.
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The Mulan legend has been a folk ballad, a Tang dynasty southern folk saint, a Ming dynasty stage heroine, a Qing dynasty temple cult, a Republican era national allegory, a Disney animated film, a Beijing musical, a 2020 live-action feature, a video game character since 2001, and a flashpoint in 21st century cultural politics.
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At a glance Conflict: Decisive naval battle at the end of the late Han civil war, late 208 to early 209 CE. Combatants: The northern warlord Cao Cao against the southern alliance of Liu Bei and Sun Quan.
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What the Second Opium War Was The Second Opium War, sometimes called the Arrow War from the incident that set it off, ran from 8 October 1856 to 24 October 1860.
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The Hunan farmhouse, 1811 Zeng Guofan was born on the twenty-sixth of November, 1811, in a farming village on the southern flank of the Xiang River valley in Hunan, into a family that was, by the standards of the late Qing, neither rich nor poor.
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The word warlord, applied to early-twentieth-century China, has been used to cover almost every kind of regional strongman, from the bandit chiefs of the Henan hill country to the formally uniformed generals who commanded government armies in the name of the Republic.
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At a glance The Taiping Rebellion (1850 to 1864) was the largest civil war of the nineteenth century, with a combined military and civilian death toll commonly cited at twenty million or more.
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The An Lushan Rebellion For about a century before the winter of 755 the Tang dynasty had been the largest, wealthiest and most cosmopolitan state on earth.
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At a glance: a war of nine months, fought principally on land in Korea and along the Liaodong peninsula and at sea in the Yellow Sea, between a Qing China that had not fought a major external war for two generations and a Meiji Japan that had spent two decades building a conscript army on the French model and a navy on the British model.
