China proper, also called Inner China are terms used primarily in the West in reference to the traditional "core" regions of China centered in the southeast. The term was first used by Westerners during the Manchu-led Qing dynasty to describe the distinction between the historical "Han lands" (漢地)—i.e. regions long dominated by the majority Han population—and the "frontier" regions of China where more non-Han ethnic groups and new foreign immigrants reside, sometimes known as "Outer China". There is no fixed extent for China proper, as many administrative, cultural, and linguistic shifts have occurred in Chinese history. One definition refers to the original area of Chinese civilization, the Central Plain ; another to the Eighteen Provinces of the Qing dynasty. There was no direct translation for "China proper" in the Chinese language at the time due to differences in terminology used by the Qing to refer to the regions. Even to today, the expression is controversial among scholars, particularly in mainland China, due to issues pertaining to contemporary territorial claim and ethnic politics.
A commandery was a historical administrative division of China that was in use from the Eastern Zhou until the early Tang dynasty. Several neighboring countries adopted Chinese commanderies as the basis for their own administrative divisions.
Wuhan University is a public university in Wuhan, Hubei, China. It is affiliated with and funded by the Ministry of Education of China. The university is part of Project 985, Project 211, and the Double First-Class Construction.
Ye Ting, born in Huiyang, Guangdong, was a Chinese military leader who played a key role in the Northern Expedition to reunify China after the 1911 Revolution. After serving with the Kuomintang, Ye later joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
A number of ethnic groups of the People's Republic of China are not officially recognized. Taken together, these groups would constitute the twentieth most populous ethnic group of China. Some scholars have estimated that there are over 200 distinct ethnic groups that inhabit China, compared to 56 groups that are officially recognized. There are in addition small distinct ethnic groups that have been classified as part of larger ethnic groups that are officially recognized. Some groups, like the Hui of Xinjiang with the Hui of Fujian, are geographically and culturally separate, except for the shared belief of Islam. Han Chinese, being the world's largest ethnic group, has a large diversity within it, such as in Gansu, whose Han individuals may have genetic traits from the assimilated Tangut civilization. Although they are indigenous to Hainan island and do not speak a Chinese language, the Lingao (Ong-Be) people near the capital are counted as Han Chinese.
Lecture Room is a Chinese television programme produced by China Central Television (CCTV), in which scholars from various disciplines are invited to provide lectures. It was first broadcast on 9 July 2001 on CCTV-10. In its early days, featured topics included biology, physics, economics, history and literature, and the lecturers were from around the world. Its focus has gradually changed, as recent programmes focus more on Chinese history and Chinese culture.
Three Kingdoms is a 2010 Chinese television series based on the events in the late Eastern Han dynasty and the Three Kingdoms period. The plot is adapted from the 14th century historical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms and other stories about the Three Kingdoms period. Directed by Gao Xixi, the series had a budget of over 160 million RMB and took five years of pre-production work. Shooting of the series commenced in October 2008, and it was released in China in May 2010.
The Harvard Summit for Young Leaders in China (HSYLC) is an annual conference for Chinese high school students organized by the Harvard Association for US-China Relations (HAUSCR). The eight-day conference, conducted by Harvard College undergraduates, faculty, and prominent leaders from both nations, seeks to expose 600 Chinese high school students to liberal arts education. The conference includes Student Seminars led by 60 Harvard College undergraduate students, a Distinguished Speaker Series, and an entrepreneurial program organized in connection with China Thinks Big.
He Jiong is a Chinese television host, singer, actor, director and a former Arabic lecturer in Beijing Foreign Studies University.
Zheng Shiping, better known by his pen name Yefu (野夫) or Tujia Yefu (土家野夫), is a Chinese post, essayist, and novelist.
Events in the year 1884 in China.
Yi Lijun, also known by her pen name Han Yi, was a Chinese translator who had been honored by the Polish Government.
Yi Peiji was a Chinese politician, scholar, and educator.
Ningxiang No. 13 High School, commonly abbreviated as Ningxiang Shisanzhong, is a public high school in downtown Ningxiang, Hunan, China. The school is one of the model high schools in Ningxiang and has a great reputation for its excellent education quality, especially in literature and art.
Zhang Yi is a Chinese actor best known for his roles in films Dearest, Cock and Bull and Operation Red Sea and television series Soldiers Sortie, My Chief and My Regiment and The Knockout.
Zhou Shen, also known as Charlie Zhou, is a Chinese singer known for his ethereal voice and wide vocal range. He gained prominence with his renowned song "Big Fish", which has garnered eight awards. In May 2024, he released his second album Shenself and sold over 1 million digital copies in a week. He has performed OSTs for numerous high-profile Chinese films and TV series, including Big Fish & Begonia, Jiang Ziya, and The Wandering Earth 2, among many others.
Zhang Hongjie is a Chinese writer and historian who works in the Institute of Qing History, Renmin University of China. He is a member of the China Writers Association.
Liu Shiying, also known as Feixiong, was a Chinese architect and educator. Liu Shiying had five major contributions to the history of Chinese architecture:
Lunghi was the Shunzhi Emperor's seventh son. He was the first holder of Prince Chun of the First Rank title from 1674 to 1679. As the peerage was not granted iron-cap status, his successors would hold diminished ranks.
Zhang Zhenglang was a Chinese historian. Born in a small village in Rongcheng, Shandong, he attended school in Qingdao and Beijing before his acceptance at Peking University. He graduated from the university's history department in 1936, and was appointed as a librarian at the Academia Sinica's Institute of History and Philology. He successfully evacuated the institute's library following the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937, transporting it through Hunan and Yunnan to Nanxi County in Sichuan. He spent the remainder of the war writing articles on paleography and textual history at Nanxi, and was appointed to the rank of associate research fellow. He was offered a full professorship at his alma mater of Peking in 1946, and for a time simultaneously worked at Tsinghua. Despite attempts at support from the department's administrator, he was fired during the late 1950s Anti-Rightist Campaign, and worked for several years as an editor at the Zhonghua Book Company.
