After the Eastern Jin Dynasty，there concurred many rivaling regimes over the country.China was torn apart into the confronting north and...
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The Founding of Jin At the end of the Three Kingdoms Period，the Sima family became prominent in the Wei Kingdom.In...
Sun Quan Sun Quan was the founder of the Wu Kingdom.He was the second son of Sun Jian ，who was...
Liu Bei Liu Bei is commonly called Liu Xuande .He claimed himself to be a descendant of Prince Zhongshanjing ，a...
Cao Cao Cao Cao was born in Pei Guo Jiao Zhou ，the present Bo County n Anhui Province.He was known...
This period is remarkable because it is always told through interesting stories and famous characters at the time. Zhuge Liang...
Eastern Han Dynasty（25-220AD） In 17AD，a countrywide rebellion broke out.In 25 AD，the rebellion army of Liu Xiu defeated the army of...
Emperor Wu's expansionist policies strengthened the empire，nevertheless they drained the imperial treasury.This resulted in sharp increases in taxes and tight...
Figure 8Han Wudi Liu Che An outstanding statesman in Chinese history，Han Wudi——Liu Che （156-87 BC）（see Figure 8）was one of the...
Compared with Liu Bang，Xiang Yu had all the good qualities of a noble gentleman.He was extremely manly:big，strong and skillful of...
Liu Bang Emperor Gaozu，also known under the name Liu Bang（see Figure 7），was the first emperor of the Han Dynasty（206 BC-24...
The Qin Dynasty（221-206BC） Qin Shi Huang founded the first Totalitarian Empire-the Qin Dynasty in the year 221 BC.It was ended...
Eastern Zhou（771-256BC） This dynasty is divided into two periods:Spring&Autumn Period（722一481BC）and Warring States Period（403-221BC）. After the capital in Haojing，located around today's...
Western Zhou（1100-771BC） There have been several opinions about when the Chinese Feudalistic society started.The famous Chinese historian Jian Bozan，who compiled...
Shang（1750-1040BC） The Shang continued to develop the slavery system till it reached its peak.There are four things to know about...
From the emergence of the Chinese civilization onwards, Chinese traditional science and technology took the lead in the world for...
Xia（2200-1750BC） China's Dynasty Culture started from the founding of the first dynasty Xia with a remarkable change of the system...
Song Yingxing(1587-1666?),a native of Fengxin of Jiangxi province, was ambitious when he was young. He read a large number of...
Xu Xiake(1587-1641), also known as Xu Hongzu by his courtesy name, was born in Jiangyin of Jiangsu province. From childhood,...
Xu Guangqi (1562-1633) was born in Shanghai county of Songjiang Fu (present-day Shanghai city). Two events, the baptismal ritual and...