中国历史(英文)HistoryofChina

1、History and Culture of China,An Introductory Course By Xiaoou Li School of English Studies, XISU,A Brief Chinese History,Chinese Dynasties -Period Prehistoric Times-1.7 million years - the 21st century BC Xia Dynasty-21st - 16th century BC Shang Dynasty-16th - 11th century BC Zhou Dynasty-Western Zh

2、ou (11th century BC - 771 BC) - Eastern Zhou -Spring and Autumn Period (770 BC - 476 BC) -Warring States Period (476 BC - 221 BC) Qin Dynasty-221 BC - 206 BC Han Dynasty-Western Han (206 BC - 24 AD) - Eastern Han (25 - 220) Three Kingdoms Period-(220 280) Jin Dynasty-Western Jin (265 - 316) - Easter

3、n Jin (317 - 420) Northern and Southern Dynasties -Northern Dynasties (386 - 581) - Southern Dynasties (420 - 589,A Brief Chinese History,Chinese Dynasties -Period Tang Dynasty-618 907 Five Dynasties and Ten States -Five Dynasties - Later Liang (907 - 923) - Later Tang (923 - 936) - Later Jin (936 -

4、 946) - Later Han(947 - 951) - Later Zhou (951 - 960) - Ten States (902 - 979) Song Dynasty - Northern Song (960 - 1127) - Southern Song (1127 - 1279) Liao Dynasty-916 - 1125 Jin Dynasty-1115 - 1234 Yuan Dynasty-1271 - 1368 Ming Dynasty-1368 - 1644 Qing Dynasty-1644 - 1911,A Brief Chinese History,Fr

5、om Yuanmou Man to Beijing Man Yangshao Culture and Longshan Culture The Xia Dynasty The Shang Dynasty The Zhou Dynasty The Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods (The Eastern Zhou Dynasty) The Qin and Han Dynasties The Three Kingdoms, The Jin, The Southern and Northern Dynasties The Sui and Ta

6、ng Dynasties The Five Dynasties, the Song and the Yuan The Ming Dynasty The Qing Dynasty,A Brief Chinese History,From Yuanmou Man to Beijing Man Yuanmou Man (1.7 million years ago; 1965; earliest; stand to walk) Lantian Man (650,000-800,000years ago; 1963-1964) Peking Man (500,000 years ago;1929, Zh

7、oukoudian ; tools; fire; homo sapiens;) Homo Sapiens-walk, tools, fire ape-man,A Brief Chinese History,Yangshao Culture 6,000-7,000 years ago Matriarchal commune Pottery (red) 1921, Henan Longshan Culture 6,000-7,000 years ago Patriarchal commune Pottery (black) 1928, Shandong, Henan, Shaanxi Yellow

8、 Emperor (Huangdi) End of primitive age Social classes 52 wars,A Brief Chinese History,The Xia Dynasty 21st16th BC The first slavery society Yu the Great (water conservation) Yao (the Xia calendar4 seasons for farming) Jie (the last emperor of Xia.) Qi Jie, 13 generations, 472 years,A Brief Chinese

9、History,The Shang Dynasty The first dynasty with writing documents Anyang Oracle Broze (weapons, ritual vessels,A Brief Chinese History,The Zhou Dynasty Cave-dwelling built houses Luo Yang-capital city Yang guang, the 2nd emperor of Sui 3 Wars against Korea The Beijing Hangzhou Grand Canal The zhao

10、Zhou Bridge (Li Chun) Tang a golden age of Chinese power and prosperity -map Xian, the capital, 7 times of Byzantine, eastern Roman Empire Li Shimin Communication system (300 countries and regions) Literature,A Brief Chinese History,The Five Dynasties, the Song and the Yuan The Five Dynasties & Liao

11、, Song, Weatern Xia, and Jin -map Zhao Kuanyin - the Song Zhu Xi - Neo- Confucianism Blue and white porcelain Yuan Mongols -map Marco Polo 13th century Genghis Khan Kublai Khan Developments: Huang Daopo Bi Sheng the introduction of the movable type Shen Kuo Notes Written in Dream Brook Garden The ba

12、llads of the song The plays of the Yuan,A Brief Chinese History,The Ming Dynasty -map Zhu Yuanzhang Nanjing, the capital Strict central administration Zheng He, a Muslim Southeast Asia & the Indian Ocean, even to the Red Sea, and Mecca Li Zicheng,A Brief Chinese History,The Qing Dynasty -map The Man

13、chus Emperor Qian Long, the 6th emperor of Qing Europe countries- 17th 18th C., capitalist society 19th Century, Britain- opium Lin Zexu The first Opium War, 1840 (4 times) Hon Xiuquan the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, 1851 1895, Japan made china cede Taiwan. 1898, “open-door” policy (U.S. proposal) Kang Youwei, 1898, reform (mordernization, liberlization) Emperor Gu