A Brief Chronology of Chinese History

A Brief Chronology of Chinese History
China : many conflicts to arrive in the end at which could seem logical.

Here appears a brief chronology of Chinese history from 1,600 in which Dynasty XIA was called, until the 1 of October of 1949 when the People's Republic of China is based in communist society, after years 1912-1949 with the name of Republic of China.

The classification of this history is the following one, after Shang Dynasty 1600-1046 B.C. it is thus:

1)Zhou Dynasty (1046 -221 B.C.)
2) Qin Dynasty
3) Han Dynasty :Western Han (206 B.C-A.D 25)
4) Han Dynasty : Eastern Han (25 A.D. -220)
4) Three Kingdoms (220-280 )
5) Western Jin Dynasty (265-317 )
6) Eastern Jin Dynasty (317-420 )
7) Northern and Southern Dynasties (420-581 )
8) Sui Dynasty (581-618 )
9) Tang Dynasty 618-907 )
10) Five Dynasties 907-960 )
11) Song Dynasty 960 -1269)
12) Liao Dynasty (907-1125)
13) Jin Dynasty (1115-1234)
14) Yuan Dynasty (1206-1368
15) Ming Dynasty (1368-1644)
16) Qing Dynasty (1616-1911)
17) Republic of China (1912-1949)
18) People's Republic of China (October 1, 1949)
With Mao Tse- Tung like leader supreme.

China has 4,000 years of historical registries. From century XIII the country makes contact with the western world and after Marco Polo. On century XVI the Portuguese found Macao until 1999 that is a region that happens again to China. The English also occupy the Port of Cantón and after Hong Kong.

The Old capital is Nankin and in 1858 Russia occupies an important part of territories Chinese. China loses to Anam (today Viet Nam), the peninsula of Korea and the archipelago of Taiwan. For the year of 1912 finishes the era of the dynasties and the empire when president Sun Yat-sen is chosen. Chiang Kaishek arises and later Mao Tse-Tung, before Japan invaded to Manchuria.

During the government of Mao 5 million counter-revolutionaries are killed. China looks for the friendship with Soviet Union and it is united to the War of Korea. Soon in 1950 China occupies Tibet. The country has several failures in the search of its egalitarian development. With the death of Mao, in September of 1976, her wife Chiang Ching tries to occupy the power, but they send to prison with perpetuates chain and she commits suicide in 1991.

During years 1978 and 1988 the country adopts the social economy of Market and begins to grow to 10% per year. In May of 1986 100 thousand students protest against the corruption and want the political opening; the students are repressed and dead ones are confirmed 10 thousand.

In 1997 with president Chinese Jiang Zemin privatizes more than 370 thousand state companies, but China it is a country of conflicts with the USA and its geography is hit by great natural disasters.

In June of year 2,003 finish 55 years of tension with India. And Chinese signs commercial pacts with the USA and 25 Asian countries.

Today China has combined the extreme models economic, social politicians and, that is to say: Capitalism and its advantages for the investment and the progress, and also the socialism: with its advantage for the distribution of the wealth and the equality of opportunities.

Now after knowing this history all we can reflect and to ask: why to obtain important goals and the development it is necessary to look for conflicts and also to hit the human rights?

Which is really the balance? ; which is the relation benefit / cost of all this historical process? ; why was necessary so many conflicts to arrive in the end at which could seem logical?

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