Situated in the southern part of Anhui Province in east China，Mount Huangshan rises over 1，800 meters above sea level，its scenic...
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Hangzhou，a beautiful lake-side city，is situated in north Zhejiang Province and on the northern bank of the Qiantang River.The beautiful West...
A Chinese saying goes that，"In heaven there is a paradise，on earth there are Suzhou and Hangzhou." Suzhou，in East China's Jiangsu...
Located in the central part of the Guanzhoug Plain，Xi'an is the capital of Shaanxi Province and the biggest city in...
Lhasa is the capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region and the city at an elevation of more than 3，700 meters...
A Brief Introduction Mount Emei is one of the"four famous Buddhist mountains"in China.It lies about 168 kilometers from Chengdu，the capital...
ABrief Introduction The Primitive Forest Park of Xishuangbanna lies besides the Kunluo Road (213 state road) and is eight kilometers...
The Three Gorges of the Yangtze River is a world-famous tourist attraction.It starts at Baidi Town，Fengjie County in Chongqing Municipality...
A Brief Introduction If there is really a fairyland on earth，it is the Jiuzhaigou Valley，located in Nanping County of the...
Brief Introduction The Stone Forest is located 89 kilometers to the southeast of Kunming，and belongs to Shilin Yi Autonomous County.It...
Empress Dowager Cixi died，just hours after her son Emperor Guang Xu，in 1908（Someone says three days） .With her went China's last...
Foreign Invasions to China and Internal Revolutions in the 19th Century China had been in decline since the late 18th...
The White Lotus was a religious sect，which combined elements of Buddhism，Taoism，and a few doomsday prophecies.The most important tenet of their...
In the 1790s, China seemed a vast and powerful state. It was an empire incomparably ancient and enormously rich. It...
The Emperor Qianlong （see Figure 18）wasborn Hongli （September 25，1711-February 7，1799）.He was the fifth emperor of the Manchu Qing dynasty，and the...
The Yongzheng （see Figure 17）Emperor was born Yinzhen ，on December 13th，1678 and died on October 8th，1735.He was the fourth emperor...
Grand Empress Dowager Xiao Zhuang She was a daughter of a prince of Mongols，thus was a descendant of Chinggis Khan.She...
The Founding of the Qing Empire The last native Chinese dynasty，the Ming，was in decline by the late 16th century.Successive famines...
The Ming Dynasty（1368-1644AD） The Ming Dynasty （1368-1644AD）was the last native Chinese Dynasty.Bracketed in history by alien dynasties-the Yuan of the...
The Yuan Dynasty（1279-1368AD） The Yuan Dynasty，which lasted from 1279-1368AD，was the first of only two times that the entire area of...