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Imperial Projects (Pre-1368)
Beautiful Mountains
Religious Carvings
Imperial Architecture (1368-1911)
Natural Wonders
Historic Towns
Other
Great Wall
Taishan
Mogao Caves
Imperial Palace
Jiuzhagou
Lijiang
Potala Palace
Terracotta Warriors
Huangshan
Dazu Rock Carvings
Summer Palace
Huanglong
Pingyao
Confucius Family Mansion
Dujiangyan Irrigation System
Lushan
Longmen Grottoes
Imperial Tombs
Wulingyuan
Suzhou
Wudang Temples
Emeishan & » Read more »
» Read more »Over the past two thousand years, perceptions of distance and scale have been continually exploded by technological advances. We now take for granted: airplanes, trains and roads; distribution systems that furnish ice-cool “Perrier” in the midst of a vast, baking desert. Yet even now, Nature with a flick of her skirt belies our pretensions to mastery. When you’re in the middle of a scorching desert, there is only so much your air-conditioning unit can do. » Read more »
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Dynasty
Period
Characteristics
Xia & Shang
2200 – 1100 BC
Mythological period
* Eulogized agricultural society with attendant mythology
* Evidence of early divination techniques
Zhou
1100 – 221 BC
Birth of Chinese philosophy
* Seven socially and politically developed states compete for supremacy.
* Birth of Confucianism, Daoism and competing ideologies of the "hundred schools".
Qin
221 – 207 BC
War
* Infamous & » Read more »
» Read more »(Imperial Tours is grateful to Amir for permission to publish this excerpt from his Phd research. )
China -today the nation with the largest fleet of bicycles in the world- is surprisingly underrepresented in cycle history: we know nearly nothing about Chinese cycle history, cycle production, cycling habits or other aspects of the bicycle in China.
This contribution presents first results from historical Chinese sources, which were collected for my doctoral thesis, » Read more »
» Read more »Though Western music is popular among China's younger generation, traditional Chinese music can often be heard in parks and back street tea-houses. There, to the delight of an enthusiastic audience, aficionados gather to sing their favorite operatic arias. Of China's various operatic schools, the most famous is that which developed in her capital city, referred to simply as Beijing opera.
This grew from the comedic and balladic traditions of the Northern Song dynasty (960-1127), » Read more »
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