New York Times
New York Times: China's Rule by Law:
Features China's problems with creating a modern legal system. Interactive media and audio gives information about the transformation of the legal system. (20 September 2005)
Columbia University
The Song Dynasty in China (960 1279)
A look at the Song Dynasty that answers the question: "Does modernity begin with the Song dynasty?" Author discusses economic growth, commercialization, urbanization, and intellectual life while studying a 12th-century scroll.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Northeast China, 1971
"Northeast China - the provinces of Heilungkiang, Kirin, and Liaoning - is the most important region of the country and a nationally significant and still-developing center of agricultural production. Most of the Northeast remained...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: North China, 1971
" North China includes the densely populated and intensively cultivated North China Plain, the loess-covered uplands of Shansi, northern Shensi, and eastern Kansu, and the sparsely populated, semiarid steppes of Inner Mongolia....
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Unesco: China: Capital Cities and Tombs of the Ancient Koguryo Kingdom
The site includes archaeological remains of three cities and 40 tombs: Wunu Mountain City, Guonei City and Wandu Mountain City, 14 tombs are imperial, 26 of nobles. All belong to the Koguryo culture, named after the dynasty that ruled...
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Oracle Bone Inscription
This site from Logoi.com contains great information on the origins of Chinese writing. It covers such topics as: oracle bones, bronze inscriptions, and the beginnings of modern writing. This site is a great site to check out on the subject.
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The Treaty of Shimonoseki of April 17, 1895 resulted in China ceded its sovereignty over Taiwan in perpetuity. The Treaty was signed in April 1895, at the end of the Sino-Japanese War of 1894, in which the modernized Japanese imperial...
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100 Years After Shimonoseki
The Treaty of Shimonoseki of April 17, 1895 resulted in China ceded its sovereignty over Taiwan in perpetuity. The Treaty was signed in April 1895, at the end of the Sino-Japanese War of 1894, in which the modernized Japanese imperial...