1 / 13

China

China. Dynastic History. Two ‘tragic’ figures. Chinese History is measured Dynasty to Dynasty. First Emperor of China 225 B.C. China’s last Emperor. Emperor ‘Henry’ Pu Yi. 1906 - 1967.

cleantha-thanos
Download Presentation

China

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. China Dynastic History Two ‘tragic’ figures

  2. Chinese History is measured Dynasty to Dynasty

  3. First Emperor of China 225 B.C.

  4. China’s last Emperor Emperor ‘Henry’ Pu Yi 1906 - 1967 Last emperor of China (1908–12) and the first of Manchukuo (1934–5), born in Beijing, China. Emperor at the age of two, after the 1912 revolution he was given a pension and a summer palace. Known in the West as Henry Puyi, in 1932 he was called from private life by the Japanese to be provincial dictator of Manchukuo, under the name of Kangde. Taken prisoner by the Russians in 1945, he was tried in China as a war criminal (1950), pardoned (1959), and became a private citizen. He died as a gardener in Beijing in 1967. The story of his life was made into a successful film (The Last Emperor) in 1988. Pu Yi’s ‘Tomb’

  5. Chin Shih Huang to Pu Yi

  6. The Han Dynasty 206 B.C. – 221 A.D. Followed the brutality of the Qin (Chin) Dynasty Most Chinese still consider themselves as ‘Han’ Chinese 47 Emperors (average reign 9 years) Confucian Principles “I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.” • Ruler – accountable • Competent Administrators • People – Value order Confucious (551 – 479 B.C.)

  7. Sui and Tang Dynasties 589 - 907 Capital established in Xi’an ‘Silk Road’ heavily used (movement) Transport (silks and spices) Migration (Marco Polo) Ideas (Islam and Christianity) Emperor Yang of Sui (Hua Mulan)

  8. Ming Dynasty 1368 - 1644 Population reaches 350 million Portuguese and British ‘open’ China Capital moves to Beijing/Nanjing 13 Emperor tombs Forbidden City built (15 years 1 million people) Built from 1406 to 1420, the complex consists of 980 surviving buildings with 8,707 bays of rooms

  9. Qing (or Ching or Manchu) Dynasty 1644 - 1911 Problems with ‘outsiders’ Opium for silk and pottery Japanese invasion The ‘downhill’ slide baby emperors controlling relatives eunuchs and concubines

  10. The Han Dynasty lasted 427 years The Sui/Tang 318 years The Ming 266 years The Qing 267 years The Communist ‘dynasty’ has been around 59 years General Secretary of the Communist Party of China Deng Xiao Ping - General Secretary 1956–1967 Vacant - 1967-1980 Hu Yaobang - General Secretary 1980-1987 Ziao Ziyang - General Secretary 1987-1989 Jiang Zemin - General Secretary 1989-2002 Hu Jintao - General Secretary since 2002 When I despair, I remember that all throughout history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible. But, in the end, they always fall. Gandhi

More Related