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History was unfolding in Asia as well as Europe. In China, popular protests against the Qing dynasty, which had failed to modernize China or push back against foreign encroachments on Chinese sovereignty, led to its toppling in 1912, ending some two thousand years of imperial rule. Chinese Nationalists (a non-Communist movement inclined toward auth

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The Han fought vigorously to extend its rule into Vietnam and directly ruled Vietnam for repeated stretches, but each time, Han rule was reversed by local rebellions. At other times, the rule was indirect, with Vietnamese kingdoms paying tribute to the Chinese empire. While China’s cultural influences on Vietnam were deep, China never succeeded in

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China and Europe are different in many ways, but one is that after the Mongol conquest in the 12th century, China remains a unified empire run by a single Mandarin bureaucracy.

The Song Dynasty might justly be considered the world’s first large-scale capitalist economy: land was privately owned, merchant families invested in joint-stock companies, international trade was open, harbors were improved, and Chinese ocean-based trade expanded throughout the Indian Ocean to East Africa and the Red Sea. A navy established in the

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