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9 January 2015
Warring States Period
Created page with "::''This article is about the Warring States Period in Chinese history; for the period by the same name in Japanese history, see Sengoku Period.'' *''Dates: 450-220 BCE'' ..."
Qu Yuan
Created page with "*''Born: 340 BCE'' *''Died: 278 BCE'' Qu Yuan was a government minister in the State of Chu during China's Warring States Period. He is known particularly as a poet, ..."
Dragon boats
In China
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Zhou Dynasty
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King You of Zhou
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Zhou Dynasty
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Zhou Dynasty
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King Cheng of Zhou
Created page with "*''Reign: c. 1042-1006 BCE'' King Cheng of Zhou was the son of King Wu, and the second king of China's Zhou Dynasty. He succeeded his father to the t..."
King Wu of Zhou
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Zhou Dynasty
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Shang Dynasty
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King You of Zhou
Created page with "*''Reign: 781-771 BCE'' King You of Zhou was the last king of China's Western Zhou Dynasty. As is typical of the final ruler of a dynasty, Chinese records tr..."
Shang Dynasty
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King Wu of Zhou
Created page with "*''Reign: 1049 or 1045 BCE to 1043 BCE'' King Wu was the first king of China's Zhou Dynasty, establishing that dynasty around 1045 BCE after leading armies from the west ..."
Shang Dynasty
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Oracle bones
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Kanji
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Shang Dynasty
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Xia Dynasty
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Longshan culture
Created page with " Longshan culture, which thrived from roughly 3000 BCE to 2000 BCE in the North China Plain, was an important Neolithic culture in China, representing important shifts from th..."
Yangshao culture
Created page with " Yangshao culture was a Neolithic culture which thrived in northern China circa 5000 to 3000 BCE. Though long believed to have been a singular dominant culture which spread ov..."
Edo castle
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8 January 2015
Edo castle
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Opium
Created page with "*''Japanese'': 阿片 ''(ahen)'' Opium, a drug made from the poppy plant, was a prominent export from British India to China during the Qing Dynasty. The widespread addic..."
Tea
History
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Ming Dynasty
Foreign Relations
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Tribute
Ming China
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Kango boeki
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Shanxi piaohao
Created page with "*''Chinese'': 山西票号 ''(Shānxī piào hào)'' ''Piaohao'', which emerged chiefly in Shanxi province in the early Qing Dynasty, were one of two important precur..."
Chinese currency
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Chinese currency
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Chinese currency
Created page with " For much of the pre-modern period, the Chinese economy ran on a combination of silver and copper coins. Coins were minted in China since at least the 4th century BCE,..."
Tael
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Currency
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7 January 2015
Japanese archipelago
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Kudo Heisuke
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Tamura Genyu
Created page with " Tamura Gen'yû was a ''rangaku'' scholar and botany expert who served as the official shogunate expert on ginseng. He organized an exhibit in Edo in 1757, th..."
Tanuma Mototomo
Created page with "*''Born: 1749'' *''Died: 1784/3/24'' Tanuma Mototomo was a prominent shogunate official, and the son of Tairô Tanuma Okitsugu. He was granted court ra..."
1783
Other Events of 1783
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Kuchiki Masatsuna
Created page with "*''Born: 1744'' Kuchiki Masatsuna was a ''rangaku'' scholar who is known for his associations with Isaac Titsingh, and for demonstrating a particularly excellent ..."
Shimazu Shigehide
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Ming Dynasty
Demographic & Economic Expansion
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Footbinding
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Footbinding
Created page with " Footbinding was a practice in which Chinese women had their feet broken and bound up so as to achieve a particular shape and small size of the foot which was widely seen as b..."
Shimazu Shigehide
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Ming Dynasty
Demographic & Economic Expansion
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6 January 2015
Filial piety
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Filial piety
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Filial piety
Created page with "*''Japanese/Chinese'': 孝 ''(kô, kyô / xiào)'' Filial piety is a key element in East Asian values & morality, and is particularly promoted and esteemed in [[Confucianism]..."
Qing Dynasty
Demographic & Economic Expansion
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