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Compared to numerous coastal ports in China, Shanghai can be regarded as a late bloomer. Evolving from a small, unknown seaside town into a world-famous transportation …
- Turmoil on the sea led to fall of Yuan dynasty
The Yuan dynasty's marine economic policies failed to benefit the common people. Many coastal residents saw no other option but to join the antigovernment forces, preci…
- Tax system crucial for royal power of medieval France
Starting in the mid-14th century in France, taxes surpassed the traditional normal income to become the mainstay of the royal treasury for the first time, indicating th…
- Queens gave Near East diplomacy feminine touch
Women of the royal families gradually moved to the forefront of diplomatic activities, writing a new chapter of diplomacy for the Near East. The diplomatic forms they d…
- Retrospection: key approach to study regions
The study of regional history and geography is retrospective or a backward extension of regional geography aimed at exploring the historical process of the formation of…
- Prince’s death: window into late Three Kingdoms
The internal conflicts within the Hu ethnicity itself have provided reasonable explanations for significant historical problems in the Northern Qi, paving the way for t…
- Public history controversy: who's entitled to write history?
Public history controversy is a socio-cultural phenomenon which encompasses a wide range of aspects, including self-awareness in history, the struggle for the authority…
- Mapping ancient knowledge to understand the present
The real issue of knowledge are: what constitutes knowledge and how it is produced in different eras, especially across different branches, as well as how knowledge is…
- Dunhuang Manuscripts show advanced communal social organization
Relating either to common people’s lives or folk writing, these documents provide a window into ordinary people’s perspectives on their experiences, their r…