Emperor Taizong of Tang (r. 626-649), the second emperor of Chinese dynasty Tang Dynasty, faced a major threat from Tang's northern neighbor, the Eastern Turkic Khaganate, whom his father Emperor Gaozu of Tang had been subjugated by in several manners.
Evidence that the variability of Mira was known in ancient China, Babylon or Greece is at best only circumstantial.
Sima Yi's Liaodong campaign occurred in 238 during the Three Kingdoms period of Chinese history.
In a more recent work, the red dinosaur – a symbol of imperialist China, like communist China - with the engraved door on the chest mentions ‘Made in China’; it is a glance toward plastic toys from the start of the Chinese economic flight, and a symbol of an antiquated China moving toward being contemporary.
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Bei Yan was a military general serving under the warlord Gongsun Yuan during the Three Kingdoms period of Chinese history.
The history of Chinese animation began in 1918 when an animation piece from the United States titled Out of the Inkwell landed in Shanghai.
Due to the many Chinese cultures and the long history of China, there are a great variety of desserts of many forms.
The social structure of China has an extensive history which stems from the feudal society of Imperial China to the contemporary era.
James Peter Geiss (14 March 1950 - 19 December 2000) was an American scholar who published several books and articles on Chinese history, specifically on the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644 CE).
), formally the Lady Dowager Gongyi of Wuyue (吳越國恭懿太夫人), was the mother of Qian Chu (King Wenyi, né Qian Hongchu), the fifth and final king of the Chinese state Wuyue of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period.
Lai Ji (來濟) (610–662) was an official of the Chinese dynasty Tang Dynasty, serving as a chancellor during the reign of Emperor Gaozong.
Li Jingxuan (李敬玄) (615–682), formally Duke Wenxian of Zhao (趙文憲公), was an official of the Chinese dynasty Tang Dynasty, serving as chancellor during the reign of Emperor Gaozong.
From an illustration and description in the 14th century Chinese Huolongjing of Jiao Yu is the oldest known multistage rocket; this was the 'fire-dragon issuing from the water' (火龙出水, huo long chu shui), used mostly by the Chinese navy.
Shamoke (died 222) was the king of the tribal people of the five valleys in Wuling during the late Eastern Han Dynasty and Three Kingdoms period of Chinese history.
Rocket-based weapons have a long history, from the black powder fire arrows used by the ancient Chinese to the Congreve rocket referenced in "The Star-Spangled Banner," the national anthem of the United States.
Xiao Daqi (蕭大器) (524–551), courtesy name Renzong (仁宗), formally Crown Prince Ai (哀太子, literally "the lamentable crown prince"), was a crown prince of the Chinese dynasty Liang Dynasty.
Yang Zuo was a military general serving under the warlord Gongsun Yuan during the Three Kingdoms period of Chinese history.
Yuan Hao (元顥) (died 529), courtesy name Ziming (子明), was an imperial prince and pretender to the throne of the Chinese/Xianbei dynasty Northern Wei, who briefly received allegiance from most of the provinces south of the Yellow River after he captured the capital Luoyang with support of neighboring Liang Dynasty.
Yuan Xie (元勰) (died 508), né Tuoba Xie (拓拔勰, changed 496), courtesy name Yanhe (彥和), formally Prince Wuxuan of Pengcheng (彭城武宣王), later posthumously honored as Emperor Wenmu (文穆皇帝) with the temple name of Suzu (肅祖), was an imperial prince of the Chinese/Xianbei dynasty Northern Wei.
Zhong Kuangshi (鍾匡時) was a warlord late in the Chinese dynasty Tang Dynasty, who briefly controlled Zhennan Circuit (鎮南, headquartered in modern Nanchang, Jiangxi) after the death of his father Zhong Chuan, who had ruled the circuit for 20 years.
Zong Ai (宗愛) (died 452) was a eunuch who briefly came to great power in the Chinese/Xianbei dynasty Northern Wei in 452 after assassinating Emperor Taiwu and making his son Tuoba Yu emperor.
Chang Qu (常璩) (c. 291 – c. 361 CE) was a 4th-century Chinese historian who wrote the Chronicles of Huayang (華陽國志) or Records of the States South of Mount Hua, the oldest extant regional history of China.
The period of their creations hence spans the times from the Warring States period to the late Han Dynasty in the history of China.
The Jewang Ungi consists of two volumes, both written in seven-character verse; the first deals with the history of China from the earliest years to the Jin Dynasty, and the second covers Korean history from Dangun to King Chungnyeol.
Timothy Brook (born 1951), Canadian author specializing in the history of China