The Ministry of Health, together with its counterparts in the provincial health bureaux, oversees the health needs of the Chinese population. An emphasis on public health and preventive medicine has c ...
China was a world leader in science and technology until the Ming Dynasty. Ancient Chinese discoveries and inventions, such as papermaking, printing, the compass, and gunpowder (the Four Great Inventi ...
In addition to claiming all of Taiwan, China has been involved in a number of other international territorial disputes. Since the 1990s, China has been involved in negotiations to resolve its disputed ...
The People's Republic of China is the second-largest country in the world by land area after Russia, and is either the third- or fourth-largest by total area, after Russia, Canada and, depending on th ...
By 1949, the Communist Party of China's (CPC) People's Liberation Army had largely defeated the Kuomintang (KMT)'s National Revolutionary Army in the Chinese Civil War on the mainland. This forced the ...
The early republic was marked by frequent wars and factional struggles. Following the presidency of Yuan Shikai to 1927, famine, war and change of government was the norm in Chinese politics, with pro ...
Further information: Chinese Civil War, Taiwan after World War II, First Taiwan Strait Crisis and Cross-Strait RelationsChiang Kai-shek (center) and Mao Zedong (right) with US diplomat Patrick J. Hurl ...
A republic was formally established on 1 January 1912 following the Xinhai Revolution, which itself began with the Wuchang Uprising on 10 October 1911, replacing the Qing Dynasty and ending over two t ...
See also: Chinese art § Late imperial China (1368–1911), Chinese literature § Classical fiction and drama, Classical Chinese poetry § History and development and Qing poetryLandscape by Wang Gai 1 ...
Further information: History of the administrative divisions of China before 1912 § Provinces and Protectorates under the Qing dynastyQing dynasty in 1820, with provinces in yellow, military governor ...
See also: Revolt of the Three FeudatoriesThe Kangxi Emperor (r. 1662–1722)The sixty-one year reign of the Kangxi Emperor was the longest of any Chinese emperor. Kangxi's reign is also celebrated as t ...
Main article: Names of ChinaBoth in honor of the earlier Jurchen Jin dynasty in the 12–13th century and his Aisin Gioro clan (Aisin being the Manchu for the Chinese 金 (jīn, "gold")) Nurhaci origina ...
During the Zhou dynasty, Chinese feudal rulers with power over their particular fiefdoms were called gong (公) but, as the power of the Shang and Zhou kings (王, OC?*??a?, mod.?wang) waned, the d ...
Writing as an academic while a professor at Bryn Mawr College, his essay “The Study of Administration” argued for a bureaucracy as a professional cadre, devoid of allegiance to fleeting politics of ...
