CONTENTS
 
World History PicturePack Collection F: History of China
 
 Everything listed below is included in this single PicturePack Collection.
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CH01: Chinese Geography, Mythology, Archaeology & the Shang Dynasty ● Map of present-day China and its setting in Asia ● A map of China with provincial-level boundaries ● A map illustrating Chinese population density ● A map of the Chinese agricultural regions ● A physical map of China ● Mountains in northwestern China ● Pan Gu (P’an-ku), from Chinese mythology ● Fuxi (Fu-hsi), first of "Three Sovereigns." ● Shennong plowing, a Han dynasty stone rubbing ● Huangdi (Huang-ti), the Yellow Emperor ● Yao, the penultimate of legendary Five Emperors ● Yu (Yn) the Great, legendary founder Xia dynasty ● Reconstruction of Lantian (Lan-t’ien) Man’s skull ● A view of the Yuncheng basin ● Hemudu neolithic settlement uncovered ● Hemudu bone plowheads and clay figure of a pig ● Pottery of the Longshan culture ● Excavation of site of "legendary" Xia capital ● An excavated tomb at Taosi in western Henan ● Longshan/Xia period white pottery, gui type ● Tortoise shell with incised pictographs ● Shang oracle bone inscription ● Shang bronze artisanship ● A Shang bronze vessel of the ding type ● Zhou Wen Wang, father first leader, Zhou dynasty
 

CH02: China: The Zhou Dynasty ● Zhou Gong, or the Duke of Zhou ● The Temple of Heaven in Beijing ● Guanzi, (Kuan-tzu, d. 645 B.C.) ● Site of tomb of Confucius at Qufu (Ch'n-fu) ● Stones inscribed with reputed Confucius' writings ● The philosopher Laozi (Lao-tzu) ● A drawing of a Daoist adept sailing in a cloud ● A group of Daoist priests, photographed ca. 1910 ● China in the 6th century B.C ● Sunzi. (Sun Tzu, or Sun Wu, ca. 4th c. B. C.) ● Excavation of royal tomb of the state of Qin ● Bronze jar unearthed at ancient Qin capital ● Iron spade found at ancient Qin capital ● Illustration, Chinese system of 28 constellations ● Mencius, or Mengzi (Meng-tzu) ● The Daoist philosopher Zhuangzi (Chuang-tzu)
 

CH03: China: The The Qin, Han and Post-Han Periods ● European ivory merchant with ivory and porters ● Qin Shi Huangdi (Ch'in Shih Huang-ti) ● The Great Wall of China ● Terracotta warriors from tomb of Qin Shi Huangdi ● Terracotta figure of armor-clad warrior ● Infamous "burning of books & burying of scholars ● Daoist traveler Xu Fu (Hsn Fu) ● Liu Bang (Liu Pang), founder of the Han dynasty ● Han Wudi (Han Wu-ti), the "Martial Emperor." ● Map of expanding Chinese borders in Han dynasty ● Artifacts recovered from Han imperial tomb ● Remains uncovered at tomb of imperial relative ● Detail of terracotta horse, from Western Han tomb ● Sima Qian (Ssu-ma Ch'ien, born ca. 145 B.C.) ● Han Confucianist Dong Zhongshu (Tung Chung-shu) ● yubi (round piece of jade), from Western Han ● Bronze peacock from the Western Han ● Han Guang Wudi (Kuang Wu-ti) emperor of Later Han ● Ban Gu (Pan Ku, d. 92 A.D.) ● Zhang Heng (Chang Heng), (78-139 A.D.) ● Mechanism of Zhang Heng's seismograph ● A bronze of the Eastern Han period ● Bamboo writing tablets, Han period ● Traditional paper-making in China ● One step in making silk is sorting silk cocoons ● Woodcut of woman winding strands of silk ● A map of the Three Kingdoms (Sanguo) period ● Zhuge Liang Cao Cao, and Sun Quan ● Guanyu (Kuan Yn, d. 219 A.D.) ● Emperor Jin Wudi (Chin Wu-ti) ● Daoist stretching exercise from Ming period book ● Statue of Buddha from the Yungang rock temple ● Statue of the Buddha from the Northern Wei period ● A large statue of the Buddha with attendants ● Mounted aristocrats in procession
 

CH04: China: The Sui, Tang and Song Dynasties ● Emperor Wendi founded the Sui dynasty ● Yang Guang last major Sui emperor ● Grand Canal at Suzhou as photographed ca. 1904 ● The Great Wall ● Founder Tang dynasty Li Yuan (566-635) ● Map of central Tang empire, early 8th century ● Empress Wu, or Wu Zhao (Chao) (627?-705) ● A Tang period stone sculpture of the Buddha ● Mount Wudang, site of complex of Daoist temples ● Du Fu (Tu Fu, 712-70) Chinese poet ● Bo Zhuyi (Po Chn-i, 772-846) ● Ceramic rider, earthenware ● A camel laden with silk and supplies ● A gold bowl from the Tang ● Court ladies playing music ● The cultivation and processing of tea ● Ming period drawing of "one-wheeled push-barrow." ● Final examination in the presence of emperor ● Han Yu (Han Yn, 768-824) ● Yang Guifei, "Precious Consort" of Tang Xuanzon ● Guo Ziyi (Kuo Tzu-i, 697-781) ● A map of Song China, mid-11th century ● A composite crossbow from the Song period ● Earliest extant paper money printed by wood block ● Ouyang Xiu (Ou-yang Hsiu, 1007-1072) ● Examination hall & cubicles at Nanjing, ca. 1900 ● Wang Anshi ● The capture of emperor Huizong by the Ruzhen ● Song patriotic hero Yue Fei (Yueh Fei, 1103-41) ● Map of Southern Song dynasty ● Cheng Hao (1031-85) and Cheng Yi (1032-1108) ● Lu Jiuyuan (1140-92) ● Buddhism was changed by native traditions ● Enjoying the Zither, by emperor Song Huizong ● The Village Doctor by Li Tang 
 

CH05: Genghis Khan, Marco Polo, the Mongol Court and the Ming Dtynasty ● Genghis Khan (ca. 1167-1227 A.D) ● A map of the Mongol empire ● Khubilai Khan (1215-1294) ● Bronze cannon, believed the oldest yet discovered ● Porcelain figurine of the Bodhisattva Guanyin ● Guo Shoujing (Kuo Shou-ching, 1231-1316) ● Astronomical instruments designed by Guo Shoujing ● Marco Polo ● Khubilai Khan gives safe-conduct tablet ● Guan Hanqing (Kuan Han-ch'ing, ca. 1220-1300) ● Porcelain painted in underglaze blue, Yuan period ● Empress Ma (Ma Huanghou), wife of Zhu Yuanzhang ● A map of the Ming empire ● Reception of envoys in palace precinct ● A view of the Great Wall ● A statue of Zheng He (1371-1433), Ming navigator ● A Chinese woodblock print ● Drawings from a 15th century Ming book ● Statesman and reformer Zhang Juzheng (1525-1582) ● Tartars on horseback ● Ming Philosopher Wang Yangming (1472-1529) ● Jesuit pioneer Matteo Ricci, 1552-1610 ● Autumn Over Beijing's Suburbs ● Xu Guangqi (Hsn Kuang-ch'i, 1562-1633) ● Li Zicheng (Li Tzu-ch'eng, ca.1605-45) ● Sculptures lining Hongwu emperor's tomb ● Statue of a military official ● The "Honor Roll" of scholars' names ● Part of diagram of Beijing in Ming & Qing period ● The walls of Beijing around the turn of century ● Tai He Dian, Hall of Supreme Harmony ● Dragon Throne inside the Hall of Supreme Harmony ● Garden attached to Jie Chuang Lu temple in Suzhou ● The Three Sages 
  

CH06: The Qing Period ● Nurhaci (1559-1626), Ruzhen chieftain ● Ming loyalist Zheng Chenggong (1624-62) ● The Kangxi (K'ang-hsi) emperor (1654-1722) ● The Disembarkation, part of a scroll ● Kangxi emperor visiting Jesuit church in Beijing ● Jesuit Johannes Adam Schall von Bell (1591-1666) ● The Flemish Jesuit Ferdinand Verbiest (1623-88) ● Beijing Observatory with Qing period instruments ● Bronze celestial sphere at Beijing Observatory ● Gu Yanwu (Ku Yen-wu, 1613-1682) ● Qianlong (Ch'ien-lung) emperor (1711-99) ● A map of the Qing empire ● The "Nanmu Hall." ● A view of the Potala palace-monastery ● A replica of the Potala palace ● Sculptured Buddhist figures in Tibet ● Buddhist statue of Guanyin (Avalokitésvara) ● Qianlong emperor arrives at 1760 celebration ● Manchu banner forces in action against Zunghars ● Qing naval force invades Taiwan to down rebellion ● A view of Macao in the early 1800s ● The Porta de Cero ● The cathedral in Macao, as seen in 1797 engraving ● Detail of a map of Asia published in 1744 ● Engraving showing Dutch ships in harbor at Canton
  

CH07: European Beginnings in China; the Late Qing Period ● Factories of British East India Company in Canton ● Loading tea for export from China ● Chinese tea merchants ● Mandarin with Opium Pipe ● East India Company's opium factory stacking room ● Chinese unloading opium from a British ship ● Lin Zexu (Lin Tse-hsn, 1785-1850) ● British navy attacking Chinese fortifications ● British warship Nemesis destroying war junk ● A Chinese war junk of the "old style," 1840s ● A "Military mandarin." ● Chinese & British meet about Chuanbi Convention ● The bombardment of Canton ● The British capture of Amoy on August 26, 1841 ● Treaty of Nanjing signing aboard Cornwallis ● A Chinese opium den in Canton, around 1900 ● Hong Kong in the 1840s ● Caleb Cushing (1800-79) ● Portraits of Jiaqing and Daoguang emperors ● Chinese & British discuss British access, Canton ● British ships destroy Chinese pirate squadron ● Arrow War: British naval brigade lands Canton ● Signing of the Treaty of Tianjin, June 6, 1858 ● British marines & seamen come under Chinese fire ● Interior of north Dagu fort, with dead Chinese ● Pekinese pug dogs ● French soldiers withdrawing from Beijing, 1860 ● Weighing of a payment of Chinese indemnity ● Map outlining areas of mid-19th c. rebellions ● Hong Xiuquan (Hung Hsiu-ch'nan, 1814-64) ● Scene depicts initial Taiping uprising in Jintian ● Taiping forces defeat the Manchu imperial cavalry ● Taiping rebels ● Zeng Guofan (Tseng Kuo-fan, 1811-72) ● Frederick T. Ward (1831-62) ● Li Hongzhang (Li Hung-chang, 1823-1901) ● British military units supporting Chinese forces ● Charles G. "Chinese" Gordon (1833-85) ● Zuo Zongtang (Tso Tsung-t'ang, 1812-85) ● Russian military post on the border of China 1871 ● A mosque in Turfan, Xinjiang ● The Xianfeng (Hsien-feng) emperor (reign 1850-61) ● A view of Shanghai in the mid-19th century ● American consulate at port of Shanghai; 1900's ● Part of the foreign community of Fuzhou in 1890 ● The Tongzhi (T'ung-chih) emperor (reign 1862-74) ● Anson Burlingame (1820-70) ● Guo Songdao (Kuo Sung-tao, 1818-91) ● The empress dowager Cixi (Tz'u-hsi, 1835-1908) ● East Room, Yangxin Hall, Beijing's Forbidden City 
 

CH08: Missionaries, Modernization, and the Boxer Rebellion ● Small 19th century Catholic mission near Shanghai ● Catholic cathedral in Shanghai, around 1890 ● American Protestant missionaries in Fuzhou, 1890 ● 19th c. Protestant-sponsored "industrial school." ● Teaching deaf child at private missionary school ● A Chinese woman with bound feet ● The bound foot of a Chinese woman ● 19th c. etching of French consulate in Tianjin ● China's first railroad, Shanghai-Wusong line ● Steamboat landing Canton, photographed ca. 1900 ● French forces attack Chinese stronghold, Langson ● Foreign-drilled Chinese infantry, around 1890 ● Chinese warships of Beiyang fleet in Weihaiwei ● Japanese print - scene from Japan's naval victory ● Map, European "scramble for concessions" in China ● Qingdao (Tsingtao) early 1900s, under Germany ● Qingdao in the 1980s ● Vladivostok in the early 1900s ● Russian train at Mukden - steamer headed Shanghai ● Kang Youwei (K'ang Yu-wei, 1858-1927) ● The Guangxu (Kuang-hsn) emperor (reign 1875-1908) ● Chinese Christian refugees during Boxer Uprising ● Rendition of ships of Allied expeditionary forces ● Japanese rejoice over dispatching troops to China ● American, Japanese, and British storming Beijing ● German infantry crossing Beihe river in Tianjin ● Russian Cossacks outside American barracks ● Members of 9th U.S. Infantry in Forbidden City ● Signing of Boxer Protocol on September 7, 1901 ● Photographs showing trial and execution of Boxers ● U.S. Secretary of State John Hay (1838-1905) ● Li Hongzhang as photographed in his yamen ● Prince Qing (Ch'ing 1836-1916) ● Zhang Zhidong (Chang Chih-tung, 1837-1909) ● Empress dowager Cixi, as photographed ca. 1903 ● Interior of classroom at Beijing's University ● Agricultural laborer, photographed early 1900s ● Japanese gunners bombard the Russian naval base ● Railroad construction in China, early 20th c. ● Train on Guangzhou-Hankou (Canton-Hankow) line ● Liang Qichao (Liang Ch'i-ch'ao, 1873-1939) ● Puyi (P'u-i, 1906-67) last Manchu emperor  
 

CH09: The Republican Period ● Sun Yat-sen "father of the Chinese revolution." ● Yuan Shikai, military strong man ● Cartoon, Yuan Shikai's attempt to be emperor ● Wounded soldiers of Wu Peifu evacuated by rail ● Manchurian warlord Zhang Zuolin (1873-1928) ● Troops of Zhang Zuolin's Fengtian army ● Sun Yat-sen, in 1924, several months before death ● Canton's bustling waterfront photographed ca.1920 ● Hanyang iron works and arsenal ca. 1920 ● Sun Yat-sen and Chiang Kai-shek in June, 1924 ● Hu Shih (1891-1962) ● Chen Duxiu (Ch'en Tu-hsiu, 1879-1942) ● Li Dazhao (Li Ta-chao, 1888-1927) ● Nationalist poster dating from 1926-28 ● Poster, department in National Revolutionary Army ● Bodies of Communists sympathizers in Canton ● A Japanese armored train in Mukden, 1931 ● Nationalist General Cai Tingkai surveys defenses ● Henry Puyi inaugurated, chief executive Manchukuo ● Nationalist soldiers leading Communist prisoners ● Literary and intellectual figures, East and West ● Peasants plowing ● Chiang Kai-shek at Central Military Academy ● The "Young Marshal" Zhang Xueliang ● Tianjin in aftermath of Japanese air attack, 1937 ● Japanese troops during street fighting, Shanghai ● Japanese aircraft bombs village near Shanghai ● Bodies outside bomb shelter after Japanese attack ● Japanese troops celebrate, Nanjing occupation ● Chinese Communist troops at Taierzhuang battle ● Irregular Chinese troops, late 1938 ● Japanese fortifications overlooking Hankou ● Nationalist wartime capital ablaze after attack ● Wei Tao-ming and Cordell Hull signing agreements ● Mme. Chiang, Gandhi, Chiang Kai-shek, and Nehru ● U.S. Air Force C-46 cargo plane over "the Hump." ● Reopening the mountainous Ledo Road ● Chiang Kai-shek, FDR, Churchill and Mme. Chiang ● Nationalist Chinese troops board a U.S. C-54 ● Power plant after Russians removed equiptment ● The Committee of Three ● Communist soldiers examine a poster ● Mao Zedong shortly after evacuation of CCP HQ ● Chiang Kai-shek and party in recaptured Yan'an ● Employees of the telephone company in Shanghai ● M-3 tanks being loaded for shipment to Shanghai ● Nationalist soldiers in retreat near Shanghai ● People's Liberation Army marching in victory ● A map of Taiwan and the Taiwan Strait area  
 

CH10: The People's Republic and Beyond ● Mao Zedong, Chairman of the CCP ● Painting of " meeting of Stalin and Chairman Mao." ● Chinese troops entering Korea in late 1950 ● A blurry photo of landlords awaiting trial, 1952 ● Execution of Chinese in the early 1950s ● Chinese couple celebrating a "new style marriage." ● Zhou Enlai in Moscow at funeral of Joseph Stalin ● Iron and steel works complex at Anshan in China ● Zhou Enlai with U.S. youth delegation, 1957 ● Career vicissitudes of philosopher Feng Youlan ● Backyard furnaces ● Mao Zedong, Ho Chi Minh meeting in Beijing, 1959 ● Peng Dehuai (1900-1974) as Minister of Defense ● The Dalai Lama, Tibetan spiritual leader in India ● Map of China-India border with contested areas ● China's first nuclear reactor ● China's first nuclear explosion, 1964 ● Mao Zedong and Liu Shaoqi (1898-1969), ca. 1965 ● Zhou Enlai with President Sukarno of Indonesa ● Peng Zhen (P'eng Chen, b. 1902) ● Mao Zedong taking famous swim in Yangzi River ● A painting depicting Mao Zedong with Red Guards ● Chinese frontier guards in vicinity of Zhenbao ● Lin Biao, Mao's "closest comrade-in-arms." ● China's first rocket launch, 1960 ● China's first satellite, placed in orbit in 1970 ● Taiwan Delegation leaving U.N. General Assembly ● The PRC takes its place in the United Nations ● President Nixon meets CCP Chairman Mao Zedong ● Mao Zedong lying in state ● Mao Zedong Memorial Hall in Tiananmen Square ● U.S. diplomatic relations with PRC announaced ● Premier Guofeng receives UN Secretary General ● The launch of a communications satellite in 1984 ● A Chinese satellite- and ICBM-tracking ship ● Prime Minister Thatcher and Premier Zhao Ziyang ● Deng Xiaoping points at CCP secretary Hu Yaobang ● Ming period print illustrates acupuncture points ● Professor demonstrates acupuncture points ● Irrigation device worked by three people, 1981 ● 17th century illustration of Irrigation device ● Overflowing container dock at port of Shanghai