Chinese Civilization is brief, illustrations only

Chinese Civilization

Routes of the Hwang He

Routes of the Hwang He

1887: 2,000,000 dead 1931: 3,700,000 dead 1938: The Chinese deliberately dynamitethe river levees to cause floodingand slow the invading Japanese. The Japanese were only mildly inconvenienced, but half a millionChinese died. This action makes the “environmental warfare” of the Persian Gulf War look positively trivial.

Steven Dutch, Natural and Applied Sciences,

University of Wisconsin - Green Bay

Yangtse

Great Wall of China

Genghis Kahn

Kublai Kahn

Pu Yi, last (Manchu) emperor

Bound feet

Sun Yat Sen

Mao Tse Tung

Tienanmen Square

Confucius

Lao-tsu

Yin Yang

Civil Service exam

Compass, Han Dynasty

Chinese printed page, 1095

Ming Dynasty Stem Cup,

Porcelain with Copper Red Glaze

China, 1368-1400, 4" height

Ming plate, 7 ¾”

end