The term "bureaucracy" is French in origin, and combines the French word bureau – desk or office – with the Greek word κρ?το? kratos – rule or political power. It was coined sometime in the m ...
Note: King Zhaoxiang of Qin (秦昭襄王) had already been ruling Qin for 51 years when Qin annihilated the Zhou dynasty; however the other six warring states were still independent regimes. Some Chinese ...
See also: Qin (state)Origins and early development In the 9th century BC, Feizi, a descendant of the ancient political advisor Gao Yao, was granted rule over Qin City. The modern city of Tianshui stan ...
All of modern China, including Tibet, is considered a part of East Asia. Historically, some European sources also considered parts of Tibet to lie in Central Asia. Tibet is west of the Central China p ...
Main article: Definitions of TibetThe Tibetan name for their land, Bod ????, means "Tibet" or "Tibetan Plateau", although it originally meant the central region around Lhasa, now known in Tibetan ...
Main article: Jing KeKing Zheng and his troops continued to take over different states. The state of Yan was small, weak and frequently harassed by soldiers. It was no match for the Qin state. So Crow ...
Modern Chinese names have two components, a surname (姓) and a given name (名). The nobles of ancient China, however, had two distinct surnames: the ancestral name (姓) comprised a larger group descen ...
Main articles: List of administrative divisions of Xinjiang and List of township-level divisions of XinjiangXinjiang is divided into two prefecture-level cities, seven prefectures, and five autonomous ...
In 1912, the Qing Dynasty was replaced by the Republic of China. Yuan Dahua, the last Qing governor of Xinjiang, fled. One of his subordinates, Yang Zengxin (杨增新), took control of the province and ...
The Mongolian Dzungar (also Jungar, Zunghar or Zungar; Mongolian: З??нгар Züüngar) was the collective identity of several Oirat tribes that formed and maintained one of the last nomadic empir ...
Under the Han Dynasty, which drove the Xiongnu empire out of the region in 60 BC, Xinjiang was previously known as Xiyu (西域) or Qurighar / Qarbi Diy?r" big|?????? ?????, meaning "Western ...
Main article: Second Sino-Japanese WarJapanese occupation (red) of eastern China near the end of the war, and Communist bases (striped)During the Japanese invasion and occupation of Manchuria, Chiang ...
The Qing Dynasty, the last of the ruling Chinese dynasties, collapsed in 1911. China was left under the control of several major and lesser warlords in the Warlord era. The anti-monarchist and nationa ...
According to Trial Attorney of U.S. Department of Justice Dan E. Stigall, "the international community is confronted with an increasing level of transnational crime in which criminal conduct in one co ...
According to the political theories of Max Weber, a state could be said to "succeed" if it maintains a monopoly on the legitimate use of physical force within its borders. When this is broken (e.g., t ...
