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History
In the autumn of 9 CE, a forty-three year old Han court official named Wang Mang received the formal abdication of the infant emperor Ruzi and proclaimed a new dynasty, which he called the Xin, meaning the New.
History
The Wuchang uprising of 10 October 1911 was a local event.
History
The Day a Chinese Emperor Became a Captive In the late summer of 1449 a Chinese emperor of the Zhengtong reign was taken alive by a small Oirat Mongol cavalry force on the bare plain outside a frontier fortress called Tumu, about a hundred kilometres north of the Ming capital Beijing.
History
On the morning of 3 June 1839, on a long stone quay at the river-mouth town of Humen, on the western bank of the Pearl River about fifty kilometres downstream from Canton, two thousand Chinese labourers began to break open chests of British-owned opium.
History
The Largest Encyclopedia Ever Made There is an old, slightly tired joke in Chinese history books that the only encyclopedia bigger than the Yongle dadian is a modern online encyclopedia, and that it took six hundred and four years to overtake it.
People
At a glance Empress Wu Zetian ruled the Chinese empire as emperor in her own right for just over fifteen years, from 690 to 705, in what is conventionally called the Zhou dynasty interregnum.
History
The Aisin Gioro was the ruling imperial house of the Qing dynasty (1644-1912) and the principal political dynasty of China for more than two and a half centuries.
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On 9 August 1945, just over an hour after midnight Trans-Baikal time, the Soviet Union launched the largest and most decisive operation of its short war against Imperial Japan.
History
The Manchu people who ruled China from 1644 to 1912 were not, in any straightforward sense, an ancient ethnic group waiting to be rediscovered.
History
The Anqing Uprising of 6 July 1907 was the most spectacular pre-revolutionary attack on the late-Qing Manchu establishment before the 1911 Xinhai Revolution itself.
People
The Woman Knight of Mirror Lake (Jian hu nu xia Qiu Jin, 竞雄女侠秋瑾) is a 2011 Hong Kong and mainland Chinese biographical martial-arts film, directed by Herman Yau and produced by the China Drama Production Centre on a budget that supported a substantial cast and a substantial period reconstruction of the late Qing dynasty.
History
The missions of Zhang Qian are also significant for the much broader historiographical reason that they are the earliest Chinese documentary source for the geography and the peoples of the Inner Asian land bridge between China and the West.
