Imperial China


Imperial China (also called the Empire of China or the Chinese Empire) may refer to the history of China from 221 BC to AD 1912, or to the government of China in that period. See:

  • Imperial era of Chinese history
    • Early Imperial China
    • Mid-Imperial China
    • Late Imperial China
  • Empire of China (1915–1916), the short-lived dynasty proclaimed by Yuan Shikai

Famous quotes containing the words imperial and/or china:

    “This is no war for domination or imperial aggrandisement or material gain.... It is a war ... to establish, on impregnable rocks, the rights of the individual and it is a war to establish and revive the stature of man.”
    —Winston Churchill (1874–1965)

    “Ever since I was a little girl, I’ve, I’ve dreamed of havin’ my own things about me. My spinet over there and a table here. My own chairs to rest upon and a dresser over there in that corner, and my own china and pewter shinin’ about me.”
    —Frank S. Nugent (1908–1965)