Chinese Civilization is brief, illustrations only

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• Chinese Civilization is brief, illustrations only

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• Chinese Civilization

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• Routes of the Hwang He

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1887 2,000,000 dead 1931 3,700,000 dead 1938
The Chinese deliberately dynamite the river
levees to cause flooding and slow the invading
Japanese. The Japanese were only mildly
inconvenienced, but half a million Chinese died.
This action makes the environmental warfare of
the Persian Gulf War look positively trivial.
Steven Dutch, Natural and Applied Sciences,
University of Wisconsin - Green Bay

• Routes of the Hwang He

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• Yangtse

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• Great Wall of China

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• Genghis Kahn

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• Kublai Kahn

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• Pu Yi, last (Manchu) emperor

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• Bound feet

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• Sun Yat Sen

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• Mao Tse Tung

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• Tienanmen Square

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• Confucius

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• Lao-tsu

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• Yin Yang

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• Civil Service exam

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• Compass, Han Dynasty

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• Chinese printed page, 1095

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• Ming Dynasty Stem Cup,
• Porcelain with Copper Red Glaze
• China, 1368-1400, 4" height

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• Ming plate, 7 ¾

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