In the 19th century the Qing Dynasty was fraught with political unrest and economic problems. Confronted by western incursions and threats from an …
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Cixi: China's Infamous Empress
The Dowager Empress Cixi is well-known for keeping a tight grip on power in China while presiding over the collapse o the Qing Empire. Was Cixi a true villain, or a historic scapegoat?
The Taiping Rebellion, which broke out in 1850, would come to be the bloodiest civil war in human history. Historians estimate it may have claimed up …
The rich civilization of ancient China has perhaps not been communicated as well as that of the Greeks or Romans to the rest of the world. …
In 259 BCE, there was no China. There was no unified group of people to call themselves “Chinese,” there was no empire, and certainly, there was no …
Lauded as China’s “golden age”, the Tang Dynasty was epitomized by its economic, social, and political stability, a flourishing artistic and literary …
China today is an economic superpower, predicted to overtake the U.S. by 2028. The perception in the West today of China as a modern, high-tech, and …
