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Historical Period
1. Early History
a. Ancient - 221 BCE
b. Qin Dynasty 221 - 206 BCE
c. Han Dynasty 206 BCE - 220 CE
d. Three Kingdoms 220 - 280
e. Southern and Northern Dynasties 265-588
f. Sui Dynasty 581 - 618
g. Tang Dynasty 618 - 907
h. Five Dynasties Ten Kingdoms 907 - 979
i. Song Dynasty 960 - 1279
j. Yuan Dynasty 1279 - 1368
k. Ming Dynasty 1368 - 1644
l. Ming-Qing transition
2. Qing Dynasty 1644-1911
a. Shunzhi 1643 - 1661
b. Kangxi 1661 - 1722
c. Yongzheng 1722 - 1735
d. Qianlong 1735 - 1796
e. Jiaqing 1796 - 1820
f. Daoguang 1820 - 1850
ff. Taiping Rebellion 1850 - 1864
g. Xianfeng 1850 - 1861
h. Tongzhi 1861 - 1875
i. Guangxu 1875 - 1908
j. Xuantong 1908 - 1912
k. End of Qing
3. Nationalist Period 1911-1949
a. "old society"
b. early republic 1911 - 1915
c. warlord period 1915 - 1927
d. Guomindang 1927 - 1949
e. Long March 1934-1936
f. Anti-Japanese War 1937 - 1945
g. Civil War 1945 - 1950
4. 1950s New Society 1949-1958
a. liberation 1949-1950
b. land reform 1950-1952
c. Mutual Aid Teams 1952-1954
d. national construction 1951-1958
e. collectivization 1953-1958
f. Hundred Flowers 1956-1957
5. Great Leap Forward 1958-1961
a. People's Communes
b. Famine
c. Anti-Right Deviationist Movement
6. Collective Period 1962-1981
a. restore collective production 1962-1963
b. Four Cleanups 1963-1966
c. Cultural Revolution 1966-1976
e. post-Mao collective 1976-1978
7. Reform Period 1978-present
a. Reform and Opening 1978-1981
b. decollectivization 1981-1989
c. socialist market economy 1990-2000
d. opening the west 1999 - present
e. grain to green 2000 - present
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k. production_team
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