This relative isolation from the outside world made possible over the centuries the flowering and refinement of the Chinese culture, but it also left China ill prepared to cope with that world when, from the mid-19th century, it was confronted by technologically superior foreign nations. There ...
In the 19th century, China used red paper as their currency. China's oldest currency's worth is gold, and people had to take many of them to buy things. Because it was not easy to carry so many of these things, the government started making paper bills. People took three bills and ...
This paper examines early nineteenth century legal cases in which Qing jurists had to determine a just way to punish a male offender who had murdered a man in order to defend himself against rape. Earlier, in the eighteenth century, jurists judging such cases exhibited considerable skepticism th...
ince the founding of the People's Republic of China,19th Century Russian literature always occupied a pivotal position in the study of Russian and Soviet Union's literature in China.In the recent 20 years,this branch of study gradually entered a period of contemplation and subsidence,presenting ...
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China - Dynastic Rule, Social Hierarchy, Confucianism: Chinese society continued to be highly stratified during the early Qing. Hereditary status groups ranged from the descendants of the imperial line down to the “mean people” at the bottom of the soc
BEIJING, Jan. 19 (Xinhua) -- A photo exhibition featuring Chinese life in the 19th century has attracted more than 70,000 visitors at the Tsinghua University Art Museum since its opening two months ago. The exhibition, "Vision and Reflection: Photographs of China in the 19th Century from the...
Endeavors of the Communist Party of China (CPC) over the past century have "fundamentally transformed the future of the Chinese people" and "opened up the right path for achieving rejuvenation of the Chinese nation," according to a communique of the sixth plenary session of the ...
Stephan Loewentheil's exhaustive photo archive shines a new light on life in 19th-century China. Scroll through to see more images from his collection. The Loewentheil Collection of China Photography Rare photos of 19th-century China 1 of 16 Prev Next CNN — Before the arrival of photogr...