A Hidden History throughout the Stories: Lu Xun Chinese scholars have fought to find freedom from their traditional past and identify themselves as individuals. Lu Xun is a prominent Chinese writer who, like many, wanted to free China of its traditional civilization. He wrote two diff...

Chinese Culture The Chinese Lake Murders were written by author, Robert Van Gulik and can be used to learn about pre-modern Chinese civilization. The book was set during the Ming Dynasty in the town of Han-yuan, which is about 60 miles north west of the imperial capital. The novel tells the tal...

It was a sense of belonging, of group pride, that drove me to the learning of Chinese history. Have you ever played those strategy games like "Romance of the 3 kingdoms" or similar ones? For me, it was that which aid in forming my Chinese identity. For when one reads history, or play ...

Joey Azar History 112C April 23,2001 "New York before Chinatown" Dr. Jack Tchen was the speaker for today's lecture. He is a historian, a cultural activist, and does studies of Asian humanities. Chinese people were shunned out of the Chinese settlements in 1882 the Chinese exclu...

If the Chinese had mounted a series and sustained effort to project their power overseas in the decades before de Gama rounded the Cape of Good Hope, then the world history we now know would not have been the same. The Chinese had a strong naval power at those times and it wouldn't have been e...

Buddhism in China before the Tang Dynasty Officially, Buddhism first arrived in China before 100 CE, probably through Southeast Asia and Tibet. Traditionally, "The Emperor Mingdi, who reigned between CE 57 and 75, is said to have dreamt of a golden deity who was later identified as ...

China's Culture Throughout China's encased history it has developed much differently than western parts of the world. Chinese culture varies greatly compared to ours. These great differences between eastern culture and western culture make China a very interesting place. Some of the vast d...

The meager image depicted by Lu Xun's "Diary of a Madman" projects an illustration of society that stresses submission to authority and the ultimate compliance to tradition. The story offers an ironic look at Chinese history, culture and social life. Lu Xun battles the idea that socie...

Introduction The Han dynasty's political culture differed from the Qin dynasty's regarding the role of women. The Qin had tried to lessen the influence exerted by rulers' wives and their relatives. But the early Han court was much more tolerant and this nearly led to the down...

The fall of the Sui in the early 17th century led to a new power, one that revolutionized the social and empirical structure. At its height, the Tang Empire stretched from what is now Manchuria in the northeast into what is now Vietnam in the southwest. Building on the reunification of northern ...

The ancient Chinese custom of footbinding has caused severe life-long suffering for the Chinese women involved. The first documented reference to footbinding was from the Southern Tang Dynasty in Nanjing. It was introduced in the 11th century and spread from the ranks of the wealthy to those of m...

Religion and philosophy embraced in 550 BC and continued to play an important role in China. Confucianism is the accepted philosophy of China 2000 years later. Daoism, Naturalism, and Buddhism are part of Chinese beliefs and customs. These philosophies are at the very core of Chinese life and soc...

The Han Dynasty was one of China's most persevering dynasties of all. During the four centuries that the Han Dynasty remained unified, they brought forth several major cultural and scientific achievements to China. Of these achievements were the establishment of the "Silk Road," the...

The Song dynasty lasted over 300 years, from 960 to 1279. Their history is divided into two periods of northern and southern Song. The Song period was one of China's most peaceful and prosperous eras. However, the Song government was corrupt and weak. The Song Dynasty was a period in which the Ch...

The High Caliphate, including the Umayyad and Abbasid dynasties, and the Golden Age of the Tang and Song dynasties had numerous similarities. Both strongly influenced foreign lands, while being influenced by others. However, the many differences in the more individual achievements of the High Cal...