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The Boxer Rebellion
Smoke drifts across the rooftops of the imperial capital.
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The First Opium War
The war began with a shipment of opium and ended with a treaty.
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Zheng He’s Voyages
In the spring of 1405, a fleet of more than two hundred ships left the Yangtze River with twenty-eight thousand men aboard.
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The Mongol Empire and Successors
The empire that Genghis Khan had built by 1206 was still small.
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The May Fourth Movement
On the morning of Sunday, 4 May 1919, about three thousand students from thirteen Beijing colleges and schools gathered in front of Tiananmen, the great south gate of the Forbidden City, in the kind of late-spring light that falls on the low tiled roofs of the Outer City before the heat of the day.
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The Hong Merchants of Canton
On a damp morning in late 1820, on the south bank of the Pearl River just outside the walls of Canton, a man of fifty-one in a dark blue silk robe stepped out of a long, low warehouse and onto a stone quay.
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The Railway That China Buried
Half past five, on the evening of 30 June 1876. An English locomotive called the Celestial Empire gave a long shriek and slid out of a wooden platform down the line from where the Shanghai station was still being built.
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The Coolie Built the Transcontinental
The First Transcontinental Railroad in the United States — completed at Promontory Summit, Utah on 10 May 1869 — was built largely by Chinese workers, who made up roughly 90 percent of the Central Pacific Railroad‘s workforce at the peak of construction.
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The Kaifeng Jews Survived Centuries by Marrying Out
A Jewish community existed at Kaifeng — the Northern Song capital — for roughly 700 years, from the late Tang period until the late Qing period.
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The Rites Controversy Broke Beijing and Rome
For two hundred years, the Catholic Church and the Chinese imperial court argued about whether Chinese Christians could continue to honour Confucius and the ancestors.
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Silk Smuggling Was a Capital Crime
The Roman Empire paid for Chinese silk in gold, and the trade was so expensive to the Roman treasury that the Senate repeatedly tried to ban the import.
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The Two Weeks That Drove Vietnam Off China
In February 1979 China and Vietnam fought a short, brutal war along their shared border.
