Chinese Territories

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Territories of Dynasties in China 9/30/2011 0 Comments   Remote Ancient Times:Xia (2100BC - 1600BC),   Shang (1600BC - 1100BC),   Zhou (1100BC - 221BC)Pre-Qin Period: Spring and Autumn Period (770BC - 476BC) Warring States Period (476BC - 256BC) After-Qin Feudal Dynasties: Qin (221BC - 206BC) - China became a unified nation for the first time Han (206BC - 220AD) Three Kingdoms Period (220AD - 280AD) - split Jin (265AD - 420AD) - split Northen and Southern (420AD - 589AD) - split Sui (581AD - 618AD) Tang (618AD - 907AD) Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms (907AD - 960AD) - split Song (960AD - 1279AD) - unified in northern Song, split in Southern Song Yuan (1279AD - 1368AD) Ming (1368AD - 1644AD) Qing (1644AD - 1911AD) Present ... 0 Comments   Administrative Divisions of China 9/19/2011 0 Comments   Administrative Divisions (34): *Province: 23 (including Taiwan) *Autonomous Region: 5 (Tibet, Xinjiang Uyghur, Inner Mongolia, Ningxia Hui, Guangxi Zhuang) *Municipality: 4 (Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin, Chongqing) *Special Administrative Region: 2 (Hongkong, Macau) ***Taiwan (claimed by the PRC, controlled by the Republic of China) >The People's Republic of China (PRC), established in 1949, commonly known asChina, has control over mainland China and the largely self-governing territories of Hong Kong (since 1997) and Macau (since 1999) as well as many islands. >The Republic of China (ROC) established in 1912 in mainland China, now commonly known as Taiwan, since 1945 has had control over the island of Taiwan and a few other outlying islands.