About 3,000 years ago, there was a superpower called Shang (商, meaning commerce), which was ruled by corporate merchants. The profit-driven Shang was in constant wars against other states who dared not to submit to its military & economic powers. During the final stage of the Shang Dynasty, it kept cracking down on the dissident states in the west, while […]
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There are 10 great books on the art of war in Chinese history: The Art of War (孙子兵法); Sun Bin’s Art of War (孙膑兵法); Wuzi (吴子); Six Secret Strategies (六韬); Wei Liaozi (尉缭子); The Strategies of the Sima (司马法); Plant Taibai’s (Venus) Secret Strategies (太白阴经); Tiger Seal’s Military Strategies (虎钤经)y; Jixiao’s New Book (纪效新书); Military Traning (练兵实纪).
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Along the River During the Qingming Festival (清明上河图) is one of the most acclaimed classic Chinese masterpieces created by Zhang Zeduan (张择端, 108-1145). It is a 5-metre long painting that illustrates a panoramic street scene of the Chinese capital Bianliang (汴梁) in the 11th century, located in today’s Kaifeng, Henan. This section of the painting shows restaurant staff loading cooked […]
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The May 30 Movement became a landmark event in China’s struggle for national sovereignty and workers’ rights which eventually led to the establishment of the People’s Republic of China that eliminated all foreign concessions in China, including in Shanghai.
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This arm protection brocade was unearthed in 1995 from a tomb in Xinjiang Province dating back to the East Han (25–220). It has eight Chinese characters embroidered on it, which read as follows: 五星出東方利中國 (It will be a good time for China when five stars congregate in the east) Interestingly, the first name of the archaeologist who discovered the “five […]
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On 17 December 2007 at Lingjin (灵井) of Xuchang (许昌) in central China’s Henan Provence (河南), Chinese archaeologists unearthed sixteen pieces of fossil bones that can be assembled into an almost complete human skull belonging to a man (or a Homo sapiens as so defined by the “modern” archeologists), who lived during the Paleolithic period about 80,000 to 100,000 years […]
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Currently, there are about 1.64 million pieces of Chinese antiques scattered in museums and art galleries of 47 countries; as for those held in overseas private collections, the figure is ten times higher.
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When the People’s Republic of China was established in October 1949, among the total population of 550 million in China, 80 percent were illiterate. In 1952, 1956 and 1958, the Chinese government repeatedly launched free literacy-education campaigns, which were responded to enthusiastically by 150 million participants.
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After WWII, the Korean Peninsula was divided along the 38th Parallel to be under the wings of the Soviet Union and the United States respectively, following the status quo in Germany, for the reason put forward by the Americans that judging by history, the Korean people were not yet ready for self-determination.
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On December 13, 1937, Chinese capital Nanjing fell. To punish Chinese soldiers’ audacity to resist their invasion, the Japanese troops went on a killing spree that lasted for 6 weeks. In six weeks, Japanese troops killed between 200,000 and 300,000 Chinese, mainly civilians.
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One of the big differences between ancient Chinese cities and buildings and the architecture from most other ancient civilizations is the materials they employed. Chinese mainly used timbers and bricks, which makes the physical footprints of ancient Chinese civilization easier to fate in time comparing to the ones formed with stones. However, a finding in the autumn of 1976 shows […]
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300,000 Chinese massacred in Nanjing and millions more who lost their lives in other parts of China at the hand of the Japanese army were betrayed by the International Tribunal and butchered once again spiritually by the American general and the U.S. Government.
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