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The Empress Wu Chief Advisor and Co-Ruler Empress Wu Zetian In a previous posting I discussed the ascension of the Empress W...

The Great Peace The Taiping Rebellion A Note Taiping Imperial Seal In the mid-19 th century China was convulsed by a series...

Shang Dynasty A Note Detail of a Shang Bronze The History of China is surprisingly well known far back. Reasonably accurate re...

“Conservative” Revolutions Working peasants By Van Gogh The Twentieth century was the age in which the over 10 thousand year ...

The Emergence of Civilization Part I  Great Bath at Mohenjodaro Indus Civilization c. 2300 B.C.E. The emergence of Civilization is wit...

Top Ten The below is my list in order of importance of the top ten events of the last 2000 years (1 - 2000 C.E.). 1, The life, teachings ...

The Decisive Battle that Never Happened One of the traditions of western historiography is the tradition of the decisive battle. Supposedly ...

The Rise of the Empress Wu Empress Wu Zetain The history of China is fascinating one and full of strange and wonderful events. One ...

Pragmatic Love China c. 400 B.C.E. In the Period of the Warring states in China, 772-221 B.C.E., there flourished in China a veritable expl...

Brazen Effrontery Menzies' Voyages A few years ago Gavin Menzies' book 1421 was published1 amidst a blaze of publicity and controv...