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= //__**China**__// = "He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still"-Lao Tzu

With nearly 4,000 years of continuous history, China is one of the world's oldest civilizations. The People's republic of China, commonly known as China, is the most populous country in the world with over 1.3 billion people. Located in East Asia, it is a single-party state governed by the Communist Party of China. For more than 6,000 years, China's political system was based on hereditary monarchies, also known as dynasties. The last dynasty, the Qing, ended in 1911 with the founding of the Republic of China by the Kuomintang, the Chinese Nationalist Party. Since the introduction of market-based economic reforms in 1978, China has become the world's fastest growing major economy, the world's largest exporter and second largest importer of goods. China has been characterized as a potential superpower by a number of academics, military analysts and public policy and economics analysts.






 * ~ **[|History of China]** ||
 * = ** ANCIENT ** ||
 * **[|3 Sovereigns and 5 Emperors]** ||
 * **[|Xia Dynasty]** 2100–1600 BCE ||
 * **[|Shang Dynasty]** 1600–1046 BCE ||
 * **[|Zhou Dynasty]** 1045–256 BCE ||

304–439 || 420–589 || 907–960 |||||| **[|Liao Dynasty]** 907–1125 || 960–1279 ||||||  || 1949–present |||||| **[|Republic ofChina]** ([|Taiwan]) 1945–present ||
 * ** IMPERIAL ** ||
 * **[|Qin Dynasty]** 221 BCE–206 BCE ||
 * **[|Han Dynasty]** 206 BCE–220 CE ||
 * **[|Western Han]** ||
 * **[|Xin Dynasty]** ||
 * **[|Eastern Han]** ||
 * **[|Three Kingdoms]** 220–280 ||
 * **[|Wei], [|Shu] & [|Wu]** ||
 * **[|Jin Dynasty]** 265–420 ||
 * **[|Western Jin]** |||||| **[|16 Kingdoms]**
 * **[|Eastern Jin]** ||||||^  ||
 * **[|Southern & Northern Dynasties]**
 * **[|Sui Dynasty]** 581–618 ||
 * **[|Tang Dynasty]** 618–907 ||
 * ( **[|Second Zhou]** 690–705 ) ||
 * **[|5 Dynasties &10 Kingdoms]**
 * **[|Song Dynasty]**
 * **[|Northern Song]** ||  || **[|W. Xia]** ||
 * **[|Southern Song]** || **[|Jin]** ||  ||
 * **[|Yuan Dynasty]** 1271–1368 ||
 * **[|Ming Dynasty]** 1368–1644 ||
 * **[|Qing Dynasty]** 1644–1911 ||
 * ** MODERN ** ||
 * **[|Republic of China]** 1912–1949 ||
 * **[|People's Republicof China]**