When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Chinatowns in the United States - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinatowns_in_the_United...

    Providence, Rhode Island was once home to at least two Chinatowns, with the first on Burrill Street in the 1890s until 1901 and then around Empire Street in the late 1890s in the southern section of the city. According to another source, the Burrill Street Chinatown was burned to the ground in 1901 by a "mysterious fire" caused by a kerosene stove.

  3. Chinatown, Providence, Rhode Island - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinatown,_Providence...

    Providence's Chinatown was built in the late 1800s, and disappeared sometime after 1951 according to a historical record of Patrolman Robert Chin, who is notable for being the country's first Chinese-American police officer. He "was raised at 136 Summer Street during the final years of the neighborhood's Chinatown settlement.

  4. Timeline of Chinese history - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Chinese_history

    28 May. The Qing dynasty signed the Treaty of Aigun, ceding to Russia the land north of the Amur River. June. Second Opium War: The Qing dynasty signed the Treaty of Tientsin, under which foreigners were granted greater freedom of movement within China and France and the United Kingdom were promised war reparations.

  5. Han–Xiongnu Wars - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han–Xiongnu_Wars

    Prince Hsin. ...and others. The Han–Xiongnu Wars, [5] also known as the Sino–Xiongnu War, [6] was a series of military conflicts fought over two centuries (from 133 BC to 89 AD) between the Chinese Han Empire and the nomadic Xiongnu confederation, although extended conflicts can be traced back as early as 200 BC and ahead as late as 188 AD.

  6. Foreign concessions in China - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_concessions_in_China

    Foreign concessions in China were a group of concessions that existed during late Imperial China and the Republic of China, which were governed and occupied by foreign powers, and are frequently associated with colonialism and imperialism. The concessions had extraterritoriality and were enclaves inside key cities that became treaty ports.

  7. Three Kingdoms - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Kingdoms

    The Three Kingdoms of Cao Wei, Shu Han, and Eastern Wu dominated China from 220 to 280 AD following the end of the Han dynasty. [1] This period was preceded by the Eastern Han dynasty and followed by the Western Jin dynasty. Academically, the periodisation begins with the establishment of Cao Wei in 220 and ends with the conquest of Wu by Jin ...

  8. Five thousand years of Chinese civilization - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_thousand_years_of...

    Five thousand years of Chinese civilization (or 5000 years of Chinese history[1]) is an expression or assertion widely circulated since the late Qing dynasty that China has five thousand years of history or civilization. First disseminated by European missionaries in the 17th century, the expression is commonly found especially in the Chinese ...

  9. Ming dynasty - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ming_dynasty

    The Ming dynasty (/ mɪŋ / MING), [ 7 ] officially the Great Ming, was an imperial dynasty of China, ruling from 1368 to 1644 following the collapse of the Mongol -led Yuan dynasty. The Ming dynasty was the last imperial dynasty of China ruled by the Han people, the majority ethnic group in China. Although the primary capital of Beijing fell ...