path in the Lu MountainsA path in the Lu Mountains, Jiangxi province, China. province, China Also known as: Chiang-hsi, Kiangsi Written by Victor C. Falkenheim Emeritus Professor and Former Chairman, Department of East Asian Studies, University of Toronto. Editor ofCitizens and Groups in Cont...
Nationalist Party, political party that governed all or part of mainland China from 1928 to 1949 and subsequently ruled Taiwan under Chiang Kai-shek and his successors for most of the time since then. Learn more about the history of the Nationalist Party
decisive naval battle fought at the end of the Han dynasty, about twelve years before the beginning of the Three Kingdoms period in Chinese history, between the allied forces of the southern warlords Sun Quan, Liu Bei, and Liu Qi and the numerically superior forces of the northern warlord ...
The Xuantong Emperor, also known as Puyi, courtesy name Yaozhi, was the last Emperor of China and the eleventh and final ruler of the Qing dynasty. Click for PDF and Google Slides worksheets.
“The Romance of the Three Kingdoms is a good corrective to the hypnotising story of harmony that Chinese rulers like to tell when they are in control and trying to stay there. China is not a readily stable and harmonious country. In fact, governments need a powerful narrative of unity pre...
What are 3 facts about Kublai Khan? Kublai Khan was the grandson of the famous warlord Genghis Khan. He became the first ruler of the Yuan Dynasty in the reunited Chinese Empire. Kublai Khan hosted the merchant Marco Polo, who returned to Europe with stories of Kublai's fabulous wealth. ...
, aligning himself with Sun Yat-Sen. Though exiled to Japan and Shanghai’s International Settlement after warlord Yuan Shikai took control of the Republic of China that the Kuomintang established after the 1911 Revolution, Chiang and Sun Yat-Sen took control of the Kuomintang again in 1923....
d) Hara-kiri (belly-cutting) emphasizes the action, setsu-puku (cutting the belly) is about the tradition and ritualistic aspect of the action. f) Harakiri sometimes refers to solo self sacrifice which does not have clear rules. Seppuku usually refers to the ritualistic self sacrifice with the...
The left-wing of the KMT removed the CPC from the government in Wuhan, and later they were removed by Chiang. The KMT once again resumed the battle against the warlords and in June 1928, they captured Beijing. Later on, nearly all of the eastern part of China was controlled by Nanjing’...
Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–45), conflict that broke out when China began a full-scale resistance to the expansion of Japanese influence in its territory. The war remained undeclared until December 9, 1941, and ended after Allied counterattacks durin