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...Why does he feel that Imperial China, the Qin, Han, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties and the first Chinese republic did not qualify as nation states?...
...[and something] from my experience: the Cultural Revolution . . . the Ming dynasty furniture . . . the Hongshan culture,” she says....
...Prof He quotes the Ming dynasty statesman, Zhang Junsheng, who remarked 500 years ago: “Of all things under Heaven, the difficulty is not in establishing laws, but in enacting them.”...
...“We’ve never offered discounts within six months of product launch,” said Huang Ming, a manager at the dealership....
...Equally revealing is “Court Ladies in the Inner Palace” (1465-1509) by Ming-dynasty painter Du Jin....
...Its cathedral-like dome dwarfs even the giant temple frescoes from the Ming dynasty, which also came courtesy of Loo....
...“He is someone who ‘liu qin bu ren’ – ‘doesn’t recognise the six relations’ – which means he has no loyalty to anyone, not even his own father,” said one person who knew him well at that time and later at...
...The Qin dynasty, which marked the start of imperial China in 221BC, lasted but 15 years. The Han, Tang, Song, Ming and Qing dynasties were far more enduring. But even they came and went....
...First built in 221BC during the Qin Dynasty to protect the northernmost border of the newly unified state from barbarian incursion, the wall ebbed and flowed under successive dynasties....
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