chinese civilization is brief, illustrations only
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Chinese Civilization is brief, illustrations only
Chinese Civilization
Routes of the Hwang He
Routes of the Hwang He
1887: 2,000,000 dead 1931: 3,700,000 dead 1938: The Chinese deliberately dynamitethe river levees to cause floodingand slow the invading Japanese. The Japanese were only mildly inconvenienced, but half a millionChinese 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
Yangtse
Great Wall of China
Genghis Kahn
Kublai Kahn
Pu Yi, last (Manchu) emperor
Bound feet
Sun Yat Sen
Mao Tse Tung
Tienanmen Square
Confucius
Lao-tsu
Yin Yang
Civil Service exam
Compass, Han Dynasty
Chinese printed page, 1095
Ming Dynasty Stem Cup,
Porcelain with Copper Red Glaze
China, 1368-1400, 4" height
Ming plate, 7 ¾”
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