History of China
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China, the oldest and youngest of nations, has a history stretching back over 4,000 years and yet it also has a revolutionary new social order that dates only from 1949 when Mao Ze Dong's Communist Party overthrew the Nationalists and proclaimed the world's third largest country a People's Republic.
A land of extremes in almost every respect size, climate, population, and industrial development, ever history China is the third largest nation on earth. It covers 9.56 million square kilometers, reaching from sub-Arctic wastes to the tropics. In the southwest rises the inhospitable Tibetan plateau, averaging 4,400 meters in altitude. The Grand Canal the longest canal on the globe was dug in the seventh century A.D. to connect the north with the rice-growing Yangtze valley, 1,800 kilometers to the south. It requires 5.5 laborers and 50,000 guards to build this canal...