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  2. History of China - Wikipedia

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    10,000-year-old pottery, Xianren Cave culture (18,000–7000 BC) Bone Arrowheads, Peiligang culture ... China was one of the four major Allies of World War II, ...

  3. Five thousand years of Chinese civilization - Wikipedia

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    If counting from the following Shang dynasty which has been universally recognized by historians, China has only about 3,700 years of recorded history, which is still a big gap from 5,000 years. [13] [14] At the same time, some archaeologists and scholars view that China's civilization perhaps might well be more than 5,000 years old.

  4. China - Wikipedia

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    China, [h] officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), [i] is a country in East Asia. ... 10,000-year-old pottery, Xianren Cave culture (18000–7000 BCE)

  5. Timeline of Chinese history - Wikipedia

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    Europeans in Medieval China: Franciscan friars first conducted missionary work in China. 1294: 18 February: Kublai died. 10 May: Kublai's grandson Temür Khan became emperor of the Yuan dynasty. 1293: John of Montecorvino arrives in China and is appointed Archbishop of Khanbaliq (Beijing). 1298: Wang Zhen invented movable wooden type.

  6. Historical capitals of China - Wikipedia

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    Established as capital following the Republic of China retreat to Taiwan: Chinese Soviet Republic People's Republic of China: Ruijin 瑞金: 7 November 1931 – 10 October 1934: Establishments of the Chinese Soviet Republic Bao'an 保安: July 1936 – January 1937: From 1934 to 1936, the Long March occurred. Yan'an 延安: January 1937 – 22 ...

  7. Old Chinese - Wikipedia

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    Old Chinese, also called Archaic Chinese in older works, is the oldest attested stage of Chinese, and the ancestor of all modern varieties of Chinese. [ a ] The earliest examples of Chinese are divinatory inscriptions on oracle bones from around 1250 BC, in the Late Shang period.

  8. Ancient Chinese states - Wikipedia

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    Bureaucracy and the State in Early China. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-88447-1. Loewe, Michael; Shaughnessy, Edward L, eds. (1999), The Cambridge History of Ancient China: from the origins of civilization to 221 BC, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 9780521470308. Hsu, Cho-yun. "The Spring and Autumn Period".

  9. Chinese Empire - Wikipedia

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    Chinese Empire (or Empire of China) ... George Macartney, the first envoy of Great Britain to China in 1793, had famously said "the Empire of China is an old, ...