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History
In the spring of 1368 a former Buddhist novice and one-time beggar climbed the steps of an imperial palace in Nanjing, sat on the throne that had been built for a Mongol Khagan, and proclaimed himself the Hongwu Emperor, the first emperor of the Ming dynasty.
History
The Boxer Rebellion is too often told as a single picture: fists raised against churches, diplomats trapped behind Legation walls, and a multinational rescue column marching on Peking. That picture is not false.
History
For the seven weeks of late summer in 1405, the Yangtze at Liujiagang, downstream of Nanjing, looked less like a river than like a transplanted forest.
History
At a glance The Northern Song dynasty (960 to 1127) rebuilt and consolidated the imperial civil service examination system that had been inherited from the Sui and Tang in a partly broken form.
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.
Science & Tech
For three quarters of a century the centre of gravity in computing research was a small constellation of American universities and American firms.
History
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.
History
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.
History
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.
History
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.
History
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.
History
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.
