Qin Shihuangdi

Mandate of Heaven

The Great Wall

terracotta warriors

Kongfuzi (Confucius)

Laozi (Lao-tse)

Dao de Jing (Tao te Ching)

Legalism

yin and yang

Buddhism

kowtow

xiao

li

concubine

Ban Zhao (Pan Chao)

foot-binding 

guangxi

Forbidden City

Kangxi

Boxer Rebellion

White Lotus Buddhism

Taiping Rebellion

British East India Company

Opium War

Cixi

Puyi

Manchukuo

Yuan Shi-Kai

 

Sun Yat-sen

Chiang Kai-shek

Mao Zedong

Jianxi Soviet

May Fourth Movement

peasant associations

collectivism

land reform

Great Leap Forward

class labels

Pragmatists

Radicals / radical egalitarianism

Hundred Flowers Movement

Rightists

Red Guards

Great Proletariat Cultural Revolution

Gang of Four

The four olds

Jiang Qing

Zhou Enlai

Lin Biao

Liu Shaoqi

Deng Xiaoping

The Four Modernizations

Hu Yaobang

Tiananmen Square

The Fifth Modernization

Jiang Zemin

Hu Jin-Tao