Pax Sinica (Latin for "Chinese peace") is a historiographical term, modeled after the original phrase Pax Romana, applied to the period of peace in East Asia, maintained by Chinese hegemony. It is usu ...
Xiang Yu was dissatisfied that Liu Bang had beat him in the race to Guanzhong so he set a trap to kill Liu after being instigated by his advisor Fan Zeng and Cao Wushang (曹無傷), a defector from Liu' ...
Once, Liu Bang was tasked with escorting a group of convicts to Mount Li to build Qin Shi Huang's mausoleum. Some prisoners escaped during the journey, causing Liu Bang to fear for his life because al ...
Liyang (simplified Chinese: 溧阳; traditional Chinese: 溧陽; pinyin: Lìyáng) is a county-level city under the administration of Changzhou in the Jiangsu province of the People's Republic of China. I ...
Locations and events in the central sector of the city included:16 walled and gated wards17 Buddhist monasteries6 Daoist abbeys1 Official temple3 Family shrines3 Locations for Provincial Transmission ...
The strategic and economic importance of ancient Chang'an was mainly due to its central position. The roads leading to Gansu, Sichuan, Henan, Hubei and Shanxi all converged here. The mountainous count ...
Empress Deng Sui, consort families, and eunuchs Rubbing detail of stone-carved chariots and horses in Stone Chamber 1 of the "Wu Family Shrines" in Shandong Province, China, dated 2nd century CE, East ...
The Vietnamese Tr?ng Sisters led an uprising in the Red River Delta of Jiaozhi Commandery in 40 CE. Guangwu sent the elderly general Ma Yuan (~14 BCE – 49 CE), who defeated them in 42–43 CE. The si ...
During Emperor Wu's reign and Huo Guang's regency, the dominant political faction was the Modernist Party. This party favored greater government intervention in the private economy with government mon ...
Further information: Han–Xiongnu War, Sino-Roman relations, Sino-Indian relations and First Chinese domination of VietnamConfucianism and government recruitment A lacquerware-painted scene on a 1st o ...
The Standard Histories allege that when Xiang Yu arrived at Xianyang two months later in early 206 BCE, he looted it, burned it to the ground, and had Ziying executed. In that year, Xiang Yu offered K ...
Sinologist historians debate the population figures for each era in the Ming dynasty. The historian Timothy Brook notes that the Ming government census figures are dubious since fiscal obligations pro ...
Literature, painting, poetry, music, and Chinese opera of various types, flourished during the Ming dynasty, especially in the economically prosperous lower Yangzi valley.Although short fiction had be ...
The Oirat Mongol leader Esen Tayisi launched an invasion into Ming China in July 1449. The chief eunuch Wang Zhen encouraged the Zhengtong Emperor (r. 1435–49) to lead a force personally to face the ...
Main article: Ming conquest of YunnanThe old south gate of the ancient city of Dali, YunnanIn Qinghai, the Salar Muslims voluntarily came under Ming rule, their clan leaders capitulating around 1370. ...
