Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
Xi Jinping's rise to power came at a time when relations with neighbouring
nations were prickly and territorial disputes with India, the Philippines, Vietnam
and - most notably - Japan increasingly occupied the agenda.
Timeline
c 4000 BC
Archaeological evidence for the first settlements along the Yellow River
(Huang He).
551 BC
The birth of Confucius. His thoughts were collected in
The Analects -
deeply influential ideas of an ethical, ordered society.
214 BC
Emperor Qin indentures thousands of labourers to link existing city walls in-
to one Great Wall.
c 100 BC
Buddhism first arrives in China from India.
874 AD
The Huang Chao rebellion breaks out, which helps reduce the Tang empire
to chaos and leads to the fall of the capital in 907.
1215
Genghis Khan conquers Beijing as part of his creation of a Eurasian empire
under Mongol rule.
Hall of Preserving Harmony, Beijing
1406
Ming emperor Yongle begins construction of the 800 buildings of the Forbid-
den City.
1644
