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Political Periods

1. Dynastic China 2205 BC to 1911
2. Republican China and Civil War 1911-49
3. Mao Zedong Era 1949-1976
4. Reform Era 1978 to present
5. 4th generation 2002 to present

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Chinese Dynasties

• Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors 2852-2205
  (Pre-Dynasty)
• Xia 2205-1766 BCE
• Shang 1766-1122 BCE
• Zhou 1122-221 BCE
• Spring and Autumn Period 770-476
• Warring States Period 475-221
• Qin 221-206 BCE
• Han 206 BCE-220 AD
• Three Kingdoms 220-280
• Western Jin 265-316
• Eastern Jin 317-439
• Southern and Northern 386-589
• Sui 589-618
• Tang 618-906
• Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms 907-960
• Song 960-1279
• Yuan (Mongol) 1279-1368
• Ming 1368-1644
• Qing (Manchu) 1644-1911

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Order-Chaos Cycle
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Qin Dynasty, 221-206 BCE
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Tang Dynasty, 618-906
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Yuan Dynasty, 1279-1368
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Foreign Rule of China, Mongols
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Ming Dynasty, 1368-1644
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Admiral Zheng Hes Voyages
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Manchu Rule in Qing Dynasty
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Chinese Political Thought Confucius

• Official ideology of Han Dynasty
• Unity of political and social order
• Hierarchy
• 5 major relationships
• Emperor
• mandate of heaven
• Harmony
• The Analects
• Mencius
• Master Kong Fu Zi, 551-479 BC

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Chinese Political Thought Legalism

• Order, not harmony
• Power of the Emperor
• Loyalty to ruler over loyalty to family
• Philosophy of Qin Emperor
• Han Fei, 280-233 BC

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• An authoritarian, bureaucratic monarchy lasted
  for 4,000 years
• Why did the fall of the Qing Dynasty become the
  fall of Chinas imperial age and the fall of
  Confucian ideology?

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British Colonialism Opium Wars

• Treaty of Nanking, 1842

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Carving Up China like a Ripe melon
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100 Years of Humiliation

• Colonialism
• Taiping Rebellion 1850-1864
• Nationalism
• Anti-Qing Sentiment

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Two Major Movements

• Nationalists (1890s)
• Communists (1921)
• No.76 Xingye Road, Shanghai Mao Zedong

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Nationalists Guomindang (Kuomintang-KMT)

• Dr. Sun Yat Sen
• 1866-1925

• Chiang Kai-shek

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Collapse of Qing Dynasty

• 10/10/11 Major Troop Revolt
• Birth of Republic of China
• Provisional President Sun Yat Sen 1911
• Provisional President
• Yuan Shikai
• March 1912-1916

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The Collapse and Conquest of China

• 1916-1927 Warlord Period
• 1931 Japanese puppet state Manchukuo
• GMD vs. CCP. vs. Japan
• Long March 1934-35
• 1937-1945 Sino-Japanese War (see Long March link)

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Chinese Civil War 1946-1949

• October 1, 1949
• National Day

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The Chinese Revolution

• The birth of Communist China
• End of colonial era
• Nationalist revolution