The most important aspects of anAncient China hierarchyare the patterns of dynastic rise and fall, intermittent aggression from northern aliens, a varying degree of openness to the cultural influences of the outside world and the dynamics of the social harmony. In this particular journal, we will...
Detail from The Qianlong Emperor’s Southern Inspection Tour, Scroll Six: Entering Suzhou along the Grand Canal (Collection of the National Museum of China) 7 Travel as Social Progress We used to believe that ancient China was a society of low mobility, where men were irrevocably attached to t...
Social networksEliteWith data from epitaphs of elites in ancient China, we construct the elite social networks of the Tang-dynasty and the Song-dynasty. The complexity theory is then introduced to unveil associations between the elite social networks and the history. The top influential elites in...
Bronzes are among the most important categories of objects in Shang and Zhou dynasties of China (about 1600–221BCE) [1]. Since the 1930s, a large number of studies have been conducted to elucidate the casting technologies in ancient Chinese bronzes [2,3]. With the emergence of various sci...
China’s attitudes towards these foreign ethnic groups fluctuated over different periods. We employed co-occurrence analysis to investigate the evolving relationships between the ancient Chinese government and nomadic ethnic groups. By inputting the names of these ethnic groups into the co-occurrence ...
The Neolithic and Bronze Ages were highly transformative periods for the genetic history of Europe but for the Aegean—a region fundamental to Europe’s prehistory—the biological dimensions of cultural transitions have been elucidated only to a limited extent so far. We have analysed newly generated...
(Townships)and Famous Special Tourist Villages inHunan Province[2] . The party and government have attachedgreat importance to excellent traditional cultural heritage andthe rural tourism development in China. In this article,we giveour opinions on the protection and rural tourism development inCaoshi...
Epitaph and poetry are two different literary genres in ancient China. However, when they collectively address the theme of “mourning the deceased”, they demonstrate an evident phenomenon of permeation and interaction. Pan Yue, as the pioneer of mourni
Right after that isWorld of Warcraft West(so no China) ringing in at number five, no doubt still going strong on theWoW Classicmomentum. That put it ahead of its new corporate sibling,Call of Duty: Modern Warfare. It had a big launch, but is much more a console title. ...
EVE Onlineis also on that chart and it peaks at 500K worldwide some time at the end of 2012, which coincides with the peak concurrency event for the Serenity server in China. The Serenity server’s brief moment of popularity fell away rather quickly if you go andlook at the numbers at ...