History of China in 15 Minutes: 4,000 Years Animated

How did China fall apart again and again, and always come back together? From the Shang oracle bones and the First Emperor, through the Han, Tang, Song, the Mongols, the Ming and the Qing, to the Opium Wars, Mao, Deng Xiaoping and China today: 4,000 years of Chinese history in 15 animated minutes, told by Quill, our ink-drawn historian. ⏱ Chapters 0:00 Intro 0:20 The Rivers 1:00 The First Dynasties 2:30 The First Emperor 3:30 The Han 4:31 Divided 5:13 The Tang 6:15 The Song 6:57 The Mongols 7:38 The Ming 8:56 The Qing 9:16 Humiliation 10:18 Revolution 11:20 The People's Republic 12:22 Reform 📚 Sources & further reading History of China (Wikipedia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History... Dynasties of China (Wikipedia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynasti... Patricia Buckley Ebrey, The Cambridge Illustrated History of China John King Fairbank & Merle Goldman, China: A New History Some figures (Taiping, Great Leap famine, war deaths) are historians' estimates; ranges are given in the video. 🎵 Music "Our Story Begins", "Mountain Emperor", "Crusade", "Healing", "Big Mojo", "Five Armies", "Dark Times", "Asian Drums", "Hero Down", "Industrial Revolution", "Finding Movement" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b... Sound effects: BigSoundBank.com (Joseph Sardin) and Kenney.nl, CC0. 🎨 Illustrations: hand-coded stick-figure animation (Remotion); maps based on Natural Earth (public domain). 🎙 Narration: Kokoro-82M AI voice (bm_george). Script researched and written by Nations in Ink. Every nation has a story. Which one should we draw next? Tell us in the comments, and subscribe for a new country every week. Original video by Nations in Ink. Please do not re-upload. #history #china #animatedhistory #worldhistory #historyofeverycountry