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Events relating to china
After 800 years the Zhou dynasty is brought to an end by the ruler of the Qin kingdom
The ruthless Qin dynasty establishes control over the whole of central China
The Qin emperor joins up earlier fortifications to create the Great Wall of China
In the Qin dictatorship, all Confucian books are burnt (except those of any practical use) and 460 Confucian scholars are executed
A delegate from imperial China establishes the kingdom of Nam-Viet with himself as king
The Qin emperor, Shi Huangdi, is buried at Xi'an with a vast army of terracotta soldiers
The Han, the first of the great Chinese dynasties, is established
Zhang Qian, a Chinese diplomat, begins a spell of twelve years as a captive of the nomadic horde, the Xiongnu
Zhang Qian reaches Bactria and is the first to bring news of western Asia back to China
Under the Han dynasty the Confucians become the official civil servants in China, with entry to the service regulated by examination
Sima Qian undertakes (and carries through against unusual odds) a major survey of Chinese history
A caravan leaves China with goods destined for Persia - proof that the eastern half of the Silk Road is now open
The practice of acupuncture is described in Nei Qing, a Chinese medical text
The Xiongnu split into two hordes, one of them submitting to China and the other moving west
The Han dynasty recovers control, after a 15-year interlude, and moves the capital to Loyang - starting the Eastern Han period
Buddhism, arriving with trade along the Silk Road from India, puts down firm roots in China
The eunuch Ts'ai Lun either invents paper or presents a report on the new substance to the Chinese emperor
The Han emperor in China has the six main Confucian classics engraved in stone, so that scholars may take rubbings - a first step towards printing
The Han dynasty is brought to an end, after more than four centuries, by decades of peasant unrest
The Chinese transform the toe loop of nomadic horsemen into the metal stirrup
Ten dynasties and nineteen kingdoms jockey for power in the three centuries after the fall of the Han dynasty
The Chinese solve the difficult problem of harnessing a horse without strangling it
After three centuries of chaos and disunion in China, a stable dynasty - the Sui - is established by Wen Ti (the Cultured Emperor)
Chan (later known as Zen) Buddhism, emphasizing personal enlightenment, is developed in China and soon spreads widely through the far East
The Grand Canal is constructed in China, joining a network of existing waterways to link the Yangtze and Yellow rivers
