The White Lotus was a religious sect，which combined elements of Buddhism，Taoism，and a few doomsday prophecies.The most important tenet of their...
The Impression of China
In the 1790s, China seemed a vast and powerful state. It was an empire incomparably ancient and enormously rich. It...
Guan Hanqing is widely regarded as one of the greatestplaywrights in Chinese history and is known as China's Shakespeare. Little...
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...
Cao Zhi was a famous poet during the late Eastern Han Dynasty（25-220 AD）and the Three Kingdoms Period（220-280AD）.He created a unique...
Sima Xiangru was a great writer and the creator of“fu，"a literary form combining rhyming poetry and prose during the Western...
Wang Fuzhi，also known as Chuanshan，was one of the greatest materialist and enlightenment thinkers during the late Ming Dynasty（1368-1644）and early Qing...
The Chinese Rousseau Born in Yuyao in today's Zhe-jiang Province in eastern China，Huang Zongxi was a Confu-cian classics expert，historian，thinker，and educator...
Zhu Xi was not only an important shaper of Neo-Confu-cianism in the Southern Song Dynasty（1127-1279），but also a world-class thinker who...
Born in what is today's Shangyu County，Zhejiang Province in eastern China，Wang Chong lost his father when he was only 10...
The ancient Greek word for China，Seres，is synonymous with silk，and the trade routes across Central Asia were named for that most...
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...
Thanks to the resistance of patriots like the Yangs，the Liao didn't conquer China.Finally they were wept out by the Jin...
In the Song army，there was a family of generals named Yang，who fought hard and victoriously in many a battle against...
Although the Song Dynasty was still the most powerful and influential country in the east，it was doomed to face Barbarian...
Zhao Kuangyin founded the Song dynasty in 960 AD，after conquering the brief Later Zhou dynasty that had beenruling the North...