During a few brief weeks in the fall of 1911, the hollow shell of the Qing dynasty (1644–1912) disintegrated. Shortly afterward, on 1 January 1912, Sun Yat-sen (1866–1925) and his fellow revolutionaries proclaimed the founding of the...

The History of the Republic of China (traditional Chinese: 中華民國; simplified Chinese: 中华民国; pinyin: Zhōnghuá Mínguó) begins after the Qing Dynasty in 1912, when the formation of the Republic of China ended over 2,000 years of...

Writing history has long been an important part of Chinese tradition. As early as the time of the Han dynasty, the great historian Sima Qian (145-86 b.c.e.) described many countries of the known world in his Historical Record. (1) But writing world history...

Abstract Genomic data have increasingly been used to complement linguistic, archeological, and anthropological evidence in reconstructing the origins and migratory patterns of modern humans. East Asia is a particular hotspot of human migration, especially mainland China, where a large number of human fossils...