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The earliest known written records of the history of China date from as early as 1250 BC, from the Shang dynasty (c. 1600–1046 BC), during the king Wu Ding's reign, who was mentioned as the twenty-first King of Shang by the same. Ancient historical texts such as the Book of Documents
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See morePaleolithic (3.3 Ma – 12 ka)
What is now China was inhabited by Homo erectus more than one million years ago. Recent study shows that the stone tools found at Xiaochangliang site are magnetostratigraphically dated...
See moreChinese historians in later periods were accustomed to the notion of one dynasty succeeding another, but the political situation in early China was much more complicated. Hence, as some scholars of China suggest, the Xia and the Shang can refer to political entities
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See moreBecause the Qin First Emperor declared himself "emperor" (huangdi) in 221 BC, and rulers continued to use this term until the final Qing emperor
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See moreRepublic of China (since 1912)
The provisional government of the Republic of China was formed in Nanking on 12 March 1912. Sun Yat-sen became President of the Republic of China...
See more• Berkshire Encyclopedia of China (5 vol. 2009) online
• Cheng, Linsun (2009). Berkshire Encyclopedia of China. Great Barrington, MA: Berkshire Pub. Group. ISBN 978-1933782683.
• Dardess, John W. (2010). Governing China, 150–1850. Hackett Publishing....
See more• "China country profile". BBC News. 18 October 2010. Retrieved 7 November 2010..
• Orville Schell, John Delury, Wealth and Power: China's Long March to the Twenty-first Century...
See moreWikipedia text under CC-BY-SA license The history of the People's Republic of China details the history of mainland China since 1 October 1949, when Mao Zedong proclaimed the People's Republic of China (PRC) from atop Tiananmen, after a near complete victory (1949) by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in the Chinese Civil War. The PRC is the most recent political entity to govern mainland China, preceded by the Republic of C…
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