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- Customs to celebrate Chinese New Year
- Creativity key for cultural variety shows in digital era
- Double life of ‘Beijing drifters’ depicted
- GSI offers new path for global security governance
- Free labor flow empowers unified national market
- Fostering a new pattern of high-standard opening up
- Traditional Chinese festivals going global
- Time:02/22/2016 Hits:1018In Chinese history, Legalism was one of the main philosophical currents during the Warring States Period (475-221 BC).
- Russian invasion changed way Qing managed sea bordersWhen governing the northeastern sea border, the Qing court applied two separate sets of laws to the Manchu and Han peoples and differentiated the management of affairs …
- Goddess worship reflected political, social needsMazu has been recognized as the “Guardian of the Sea” and a symbol of Chinese marine culture. Worshipped and revered by ordinary people inside and…
- Resurgence of cliques brought tumult to Song politicsThe painting shows official candidates taking part in the imperial examinations in the Song Dynasty (960-1279). From the Five Dynasties (907-960) to the Northern …
- Republican era brought drastic changes in beliefThe establishment of the Republic of China (1912-49) put an end to the long-lasting absolute monarchy and also fundamentally shook the state ideology that supported its…
- First Sino-Japanese War still holds lessons for historiansThis illustration depicts the Battle of the Yalu River in the First Sino-Japanese War (1894-95). The crushing defeat of the Qing Dynasty (1616-1911) in the First …
- History of peasant revolts shines light on nation’s evolutionThe study of peasant revolts is one perspective to interpret core issues and main decisive factors of Chinese history.
- Tang official system reshaped forms of housingThe painting shows part of an official residence in the Tang Dynasty. There were many ways of providing housing for officials in ancient China, and they evolved…
- Coinage left Ming-Qing China behind worldDuring the Yuan Dynasty (1206-1368) and early Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), inconvertible paper money was widely circulated and coins were minted at times.