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Chinese History (to Qing Dynasty)

PREHISTORY

• Overview:
The Dawn of History - (Library of Congress Country Study/Area Handbook [1987])
Maps:
Peking Man (image) -- [Brooklyn College Core 9 Chinese Culture]
Center for the Study of Chinese Prehistory

XIA DYNASTY
21-16 CENTURY BC

• Overview:
Xia Overview
Images:
Xia Remains

SHANG DYNASTY
16-11 CENTURY BC

• Overview:
Shang Overview
Images:
Shang Oracle Bone (image) --[Brooklyn College Core 9 Chinese Culture]
Another Shang Oracle Bone (image) -- [Brooklyn College Core 9 Chinese Culture]
Academic Organizations:
Early China -- [professional society for Shang - Han studies]

ZHOU DYNASTY
1111 BC-249 BC

• Overview:
Zhou Overview
The Zhou Period - (Library of Congress Country Study/Area Handbook [1987])
Texts:
The Hundred Schools of Thought - (Library of Congress Country Study/Area Handbook [1987])
The Hundred Schools of Thought - (University of Maryland)
Zuozhuan Digital Indices - (John Page, El Colegio de Mˇxico)
Guodian chujian : Guodian Bamboo Strips from Chu - Chinese University of Hong Kong (Requires Big5)
Dating of the Chu graves of Changsha--1987 article [Donald B. Wagner]
Early iron in China, Korea, and Japan--1993 article [Donald B. Wagner]
The earliest use of iron in China--1999 article [Donald B. Wagner]
Scripta Sinica : full-text sources -- [Academia Sinica Computer Center, Taiwan] -- (Big5)
Academic Organizations:
Warring States Project
Early China -- [professional society for Shang - Han studies]

QIN DYNASTY
(255-) 221-207 BC

• Overview:
Qin Overview
Images:
Qin Shi Huangdi (image)
Texts:
Sima Qian: The Legalist Policies of the Qin -- [Brooklyn College Core 9 Chinese Culture]
Scripta Sinica : full-text sources -- [Academia Sinica Computer Center, Taiwan] -- (Big5)
Academic Organizations:
Early China -- [professional society for Shang - Han studies]

HAN DYNASTY
206 BC-220
Western [Former] Han 206 BC - 24 AD .... Eastern [Later] Han AD 25 - 220

• Overview:
Han Overview
Maps:
Map of Han China(image) -- [Brooklyn College Core 9 Chinese Culture]
Texts:
Sima Qian: Shiji (extracts) -- [Brooklyn College Core 9 Chinese Culture]
Huo Guang (d.68 BC)--biography Han Shu (web sampler) -- [Donald B. Wagner]
The military organization of the Later Han -- [excerpted from Rafe de Crespigny's "To establish peace"]
South China under the Later Han Dynasty -- [Rafe de Crespigny's "Generals of the South", chapter one]
Scripta Sinica : full-text sources -- [Academia Sinica Computer Center, Taiwan] -- (Big5)
Academic Organizations:
Early China -- [professional society for Shang - Han studies]

THREE KINGDOMS
220-280
Shu Han 221 - 263 ..... Wei 220 - 265 .... Wu 222 - 280

• Texts:
Cao Cao -- [Lecture by Rafe de Crespigny]
Scripta Sinica : full-text sources -- [Academia Sinica Computer Center, Taiwan] -- (Big5)
Bibliographies / Tables of Contents:
Bibliography of Western Works on Early Medieval China
Academic Organizations:
Early Medieval China Group -- [professional society for 3rd - 6th Century China studies]

JIN DYNASTY
265-420
Western Jin 265 - 316 .... Eastern Jin 317 - 420 .... Sixteen Kingdoms 304 - 420

• Overview:
List of Sixteen Kingdom Rulers, 305-370
List of Sixteen Kingdom Rulers, 370-450
Texts:
Scripta Sinica : full-text sources -- [Academia Sinica Computer Center, Taiwan] -- (Big5)
Bibliographies / Tables of Contents:
Bibliography of Western Works on Early Medieval China
Academic Organizations:
Early Medieval China Group -- [professional society for 3rd - 6th Century China studies]

SOUTHERN/NORTHERN DYNASTIES
420-589
SOUTHERN DYNASTIES: Liu Song 420 - 479 .... Southern Qi 479 - 502 .... Liang 502 - 557 .... Chen 557 ~589
NORTHERN DYNASTIES: Later [Northern] Wei 386 - 534 .... Eastern Wei 534 -550 .... Western Wei 535 - 556 .... Northern Qi 550 - 577 .... Northern Zhou 557 ~581

• Texts:
"The Disposition of Error"--a 5th century defense of Buddhism -- [Brooklyn College Core 9 Chinese Culture]
Scripta Sinica : full-text sources -- [Academia Sinica Computer Center, Taiwan] -- (Big5)
Bibliographies / Tables of Contents:
Bibliography of Western Works on Early Medieval China
Tables of Contents from "Beichao yanjiu" (Northern Dynasties Research) 1995-1998
Academic Organizations:
Early Medieval China Group -- [professional society for 3rd - 6th Century China studies]

SUI DYNASTY
581-618

• Overview:
Sui Overview
Texts:
Scripta Sinica : full-text sources -- [Academia Sinica Computer Center, Taiwan] -- (Big5)
Bibliographies / Tables of Contents:
Bibliography of Western Works on Early Medieval China
Academic Organizations:
Early Medieval China Group -- [professional society for 3rd - 6th Century China studies]

TANG DYNASTY
618-907

• Overview:
Tang Overview
Tang Dynasty : Chronology of emperors and list of famous events
Maps:
Map of Chang'an during the Tang Dynasty (image) -- [Brooklyn College Core 9 Chinese Culture]
Images:
Founder of the Tang Dynasty(image) -- [Brooklyn College Core 9 Chinese Culture]
Tang Taizong(image)
Texts:
Han Yu's Memorial on Buddhism (819 CE) -- [Brooklyn College Core 9 Chinese Culture]
Dunhuang Art in the First Half of the Tang Dynasty -- [Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts]
Dunhuang Art in the Second Half of the Tang Dynasty -- [Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts]
Scripta Sinica : full-text sources -- [Academia Sinica Computer Center, Taiwan] -- (Big5)
Bibliographies / Tables of Contents
Academic Organizations:
T'ang Studies Society -- [professional society for Tang Dynasty studies]

FIVE DYNASTIES
907-979
Later Liang 907 ~ 923 .... Later Tang 923 - 936 .... Later Jin 936 - 47 .... Later Han 947 - 950 .... Later Zhou 951 - 960

• Texts:
The Cast iron lion of Cangzhou--article [Donald B. Wagner]
Scripta Sinica : full-text sources -- [Academia Sinica Computer Center, Taiwan] -- (Big5)

LIAO DYNASTY
(907-) 947-1125

• Texts:
Scripta Sinica : full-text sources -- [Academia Sinica Computer Center, Taiwan] -- (Big5)
Academic Organizations:
The Society for Sung, Yuan, and Conquest Dynasties Studies

SONG DYNASTY
960-1279
Northern Song 960 - 1127 .... Southern Song 1127 - 1279 .... Jin Dynasty 1115 - 1234

• Overview:
Song Overview
Maps:
China under the Northern Song Dynasty (map) -- [Brooklyn College Core 9 Chinese Culture]
China under the Southern Song Dynasty (map) -- [Brooklyn College Core 9 Chinese Culture]
Texts:
Barlow, Jeffrey. "Decisive Battles: Parallels between the Battles of the Kunlun Pass (China, 1054) and Hastings (England, 1066)" -- (ASPAC Conference paper, 1998)
Scripta Sinica : full-text sources -- [Academia Sinica Computer Center, Taiwan] -- (Big5)
Images:
Song Taizu(image)
Song Renzong(image)
Bibliographies / Tables of Contents
Academic Organizations:
The Society for Sung, Yuan, and Conquest Dynasties Studies

YUAN DYNASTY
1279-1368

• Overview:
Yuan Overview
Mongolian Interlude - (Library of Congress Country Study/Area Handbook [1987])
Texts:
Scripta Sinica : full-text sources -- [Academia Sinica Computer Center, Taiwan] -- (Big5)
Images:
Genghis Khan (image)
Kublai Khan (image)
Kublai Khan (image) -- [Brooklyn College Core 9 Chinese Culture]
Queen of Kublai Khan (image)
Marco Polo (image) -- [Brooklyn College Core 9 Chinese Culture]
Mongol archers(image) - - [Brooklyn College Core 9 Chinese Culture]
Bibliographies / Tables of Contents
Academic Organizations:
The Society for Sung, Yuan, and Conquest Dynasties Studies

MING DYNASTY
1368-1644

• Overviews:
Ming Overview
The Chinese Regain Power - (Library of Congress Country Study/Area Handbook [1987])
Maps:
Map of Ming China -- [Brooklyn College Core 9 Chinese Culture]
Texts:
Missionaries and Mandarins: the Jesuits in China
Mudan ting (Peony Pavilion), Ming play by Tang Xianzu (1550-1616) : English summary, full Chinese text (Big5)
Scripta Sinica : full-text sources -- [Academia Sinica Computer Center, Taiwan] -- (Big5)
Images:
Ming Taizu (image)
Ming Chengzu (Yongle Emperor) (image)
Chinese cannon (1368) (image)
Ming Dynasty Wheelbarrow -- (image) ... [Brooklyn College Core 9 Chinese Culture]
Ming Tribute System (image)
The Great Chinese Mariner Zheng He (image)
Bibliographies / Tables of Contents
Mingdai Man-Meng Shiliao [TOC]
Academic Organizations:
Ming-Ch'ing Studies -- [Academia Sinica]
Ming Studies -- [professional journal for this period]
Late Imperial China -- [professional journal for this period]

QING DYNASTY
1644-1911

• Overviews:
Qing Overview
The Rise of the Manchus - (Library of Congress Country Study/Area Handbook [1987])
Maps:
Texts:
Smith, Richard J. The Jesuits and Evidential Research in Late Imperial China : some reflections
Scripta Sinica : full-text sources -- [Academia Sinica Computer Center, Taiwan] -- (Big5)
Images:
Bibliographies / Tables of Contents
Academic Organizations:
Ming-Ch'ing Studies -- [Academia Sinica]
Late Imperial China -- [professional journal for this period]