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 (446) BOOK IX. CHINA AND JAPAN. CHAPTER I. CHINA. INTRODUCTORY. CHRONOLOGY. Period of Hia. . 3.0.2205-1766 Wu Wong period of Cheu or Chaw 1122-256 Confucius died. . . 477 Chi-hoang-ti built Great Wall about ..... 240 Si-Han dynasty. 201 (or2o6)-A.D. 9 Ho-ti, seventeenth king ; Buddh- ism introduced. . dr. A.D. 90 Si-Tsin dynasty. . . 265-316 Wu-tai dynasty ; China divided Nan-pe-chao dynasties; China divided into two kingdoms, dr. A. 0.439 China reunited, capital Honan 589 or 581 Thang dynasty. . . 618-907 Wu-tai dynasties. . . 907-960 Pe-sung dynasty. . .960-1127 Northern China captured by Mongols .... 1234 Kublai Khan, Yuen dynasty. 1281 Ming dynasty; Mongol expelled 1368 Ta-t'ing or Manchu Tartar into two kingdoms. . 419 ! dynasty ; now on the throne 1644 ONE of the great difficulties experienced in any description of Chinese architecture is the absence of plans of either temples, palaces, monasteries or dwellings. Within the last few years the photographic camera has lent its aid in the illustration of the great palaces at Pekin within the walls of the Forbidden City, and of the Imperial Temples north of the city, and an elaborate work has been published with over one hundred photographs taken after the siege, 1 accompanied by a short description, giving only the names of the buildings, and without a single plan or diagram to show their juxta- position. In some cases views of the interior only are given 1 K. Ogawa. ' Photographs of the palace buildings in Pekin.'