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Forbidden City WatchtowerBEIJING, CHINA - MAY 26: The of Forbidden City watchtower is seen on May 26, 2014 in Beijing, China. The Forbidden City was the Chinese imperial palace from the Ming dynasty to the end of the Qing dynasty. It is located in the center of Beijing, China, and now houses the Palace Museum. For almost 500 years, it served as the home of emperors and their households, as well as the ceremonial and political center of Chinese government. (Photo by Xiao Lu Chu/Getty Images)

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Qing Dynasty

Fall of the Ming Dynasty Near the end of the Ming Dynasty in 1616, Manchurian forces from northeastern Asia defeated the Ming army and occupied several cities on China’s northern border. A full-scale invasion followed. China was defeated in 1644, with Emperor Shunzhi establishing the Qing Dynasty. Many of the new Han subjects faced discrimination. […]

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Allied French and English troops storm through a breech in the fortifications of Canton (Guangzhou), China. The event occurred during the Taiping Rebellion, a war begun by a Kwangsi district schoolmaster and mystic Hong Xiuquan, 38, who believed himself the younger brother of Jesus Christ.

Taiping Rebellion

Hong Xiuquan Hong Xiuquan, born in 1814 in Guanlubu, Guangdong, had failed multiple civil service exams when, in 1837, he returned home and went to bed, complaining of sickness. In a feverish state, Hong hallucinated a journey to a heavenly land to the east where his father revealed that demons were destroying humankind. Wielding a […]

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HISTORY: Han Dynasty

Han Dynasty

Emperor Gaozu and the Start of the Han Empire Following a mass revolt in the Qin Empire in 210 B.C. and brief control by warlord Xiang Yu, Liu Bang seized the title of emperor of the Han Dynasty in 202 B.C. He established the Han capital of Chang’an along the Wei River in one of […]

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UNSPECIFIED - :: Communist China: May 1935, an incident on the Long March. Crossing the Tatu River at Luting by the bridge of the iron chains. After a painting by Li Tsung-tsir. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

Long March

Long March: Background Civil war in China between the Nationalists and the Communists broke out in 1927. In 1931, Communist leader Mao Zedong was elected chairman of the newly established Soviet Republic of China, based in Jiangxi province in the southeast. Between 1930 and 1934, the Nationalists under Chiang Kai-shek (1887-1975) launched a series of […]

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A Beijing demonstrator blocks the path of a tank convoy along the Avenue of Eternal Peace near Tiananmen Square during protests for freedom of speech and of press from the Chinese government. (Credit: Bettmann Archive/Getty Images)

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Who Was the Tank Man of Tiananmen Square?

Tank Man, a protester who tried to stop Chinese tanks moving through Tiananmen Square, has never been identified.

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A military parade to mark the 70th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War, Beijing, China, 2015. (Credit: Xinhua/Wang Dingchang via Getty Images)

These Historic Military Parades Turned Heads

From ancient Rome to contemporary Paris, the flexing of military muscle is a longstanding tradition.

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A shattered road after an earthquake.

The Deadliest Earthquake Ever Recorded

Estimates say it killed 830,000 people.

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The Chinese Immigrant Son Who Fought for Birthright Citizenship

In one of the most overlooked civil rights cases in American history, an American-born son of Chinese immigrants took on the U.S. government to affirm the principle of birthright citizenship.

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