From at least the Yuan dynasty, plays that recounted the subversive tales of China's Robin Hoods to the Ming dynasty novels such as Water Margin, on down to the Qing dynasty novel Dream of the Red Chamber and beyond, there developed a literature in written vernacular Chinese ( 白話 / 白话 ; báihuà ).

From the early Qing Dynasty, the central government was characterized by a system of dual appointments by which each position in the central government had a Manchu and a Han Chinese assigned to it.

From a pro-independence supporter's point of view, the movement for Taiwan independence began under Qing rule in the 1680s which led to a well known saying those days, " Every three years an uprising, every five years a rebellion ".

From Tang times until the closing days of the Qing Dynasty in 1911, scholar officials functioned often as intermediaries between the grassroots level and the government.

From Tang times until the end of the Qing Dynasty in 1912, scholar-officials functioned often as intermediaries between the grassroots level and the government.

From the Tang to Qing dynasties, the Grand Canal served as the main artery between northern and southern China and was essential for the transport of grain to Beijing.

From then, parts of Taiwan became increasingly integrated into the Qing Dynasty before it ceded the island, along with Penghu, to the Empire of Japan in 1895, following the First Sino-Japanese War.

From 1683, the Qing Dynasty ruled Taiwan as a prefecture and in 1875 divided the island into two prefectures, north and south.

From 1683 to around 1760, the Qing government limited immigration to Taiwan.

From the opening of the hall, majority of the exhibits displayed were revolutionary events of the national founding fathers at the end of the Qing Dynasty.

From the Qin Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty, there were 557 Emperors ( including rules of minor states ).

From 1683, the Qing Dynasty ruled Taiwan as a prefecture and in 1875 divided the island into two prefectures.

From a Qing Dynasty edition of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms

From the late Ming to 1724, a big part of the area that is now Qinghai was under Khoshut Mongol control, but in that year it was conquered by the armies of the Qing Dynasty.

From the time China was brought under the rule of the Qing dynasty ( 1644 – 1683 ), the banner soldiers became more professional and bureaucratized.

From the middle of the 17th century to 1895, Taiwan and the archipelago were ruled by pirates, the colonial Dutch Empire ( attempts at conquest from 1622 onward ), the Koxinga kingdom ( Tungning ), and the Qing Dynasty, successively.

From 1966 – 1970, radical factions within the Communist Party, led by Lin Biao and Mao's wife, Jiang Qing, singled out Peng for national persecution, and Peng was publicly humiliated in numerous large-scale struggle sessions and subjected to physical and psychological torture in organized efforts to force Peng to confess his " crimes " against Mao Zedong and the Communist Party.

From late Qing to 1949.

From December 1908, the Qing government created some apparatus to allow the gentry and businessmen to participate in politics.

From the Yuan to the Qing Dynasty, Fu Department was part of Chongqing Prefecture ( 府 ).

From 1683 to 1867 the Qing Dynasty Chinese government controlled the fort and during this time ( 1724 ) built a stone wall with four gates around it, of which only one ( main ) gate survives.

From the Qin Dynasty until the Qing Dynasty, the culture of China had an impact upon neighboring and distant countries, while gradually being transformed by outside influences as well.

His other works include The War in Northern Burma ( 1946 ), 1587, a Year of No Significance ( 1981 ) ( also published in Chinese as The Fifteenth Year of Wan Li /《 萬曆十五年 》, 1985 ), Broadening the Chinese Field of Vision ( in Chinese, 1988 ), Chinese Macrohistory ( 1988 ) ( in Chinese 1993 ), Conversations about Chinese History on the Banks of the Hudson River ( in Chinese 1989 ), Discussions of Here and There and Old and New ( in Chinese 1991 ), Capitalism and the Twenty First Century ( in Chinese 1991 ), From a Macrohistory Perspective in Reading Jiang Jieshi's Diary ( in Chinese 1993 ), Contemporary Chinese Outlets ( in Chinese 1994 ), The Affair of Wan Chong ( in Chinese 1998 ), Yellow River Qing Mountain: Record of Huang Renzi's Recollections ( in Chinese 2001 ), and Bianjing Unfinished Dreams.

From 1644 the Manchus made themselves masters of China ( Qing Dynasty ).

From 1831 to 1841, Palestine was under the rule of the Muhammad Ali Dynasty of Egypt.

From about 860, the Tang Dynasty declined due to a series of rebellions within China itself and in the former subject Kingdom of Nanzhao to the south.

From 1405 to 1433, Admiral Zheng He led large fleets of the Ming Dynasty on several voyages to the Western Ocean ( Chinese name for the Indian Ocean ) and reached the coastal country of East Africa ( see Zheng He for reference ).

From the Yuan Dynasty in 1292 until Shanghai officially became a city in 1927, the area was designated merely as a county seat administered by the Songjiang prefecture.

From 1260s onwards, they were directly controlled by the Yuan Dynasty of the Great Khagan Kublai ( r. 1260-1294 ).

From the end of the 7th century BC Ur was ruled by the so called Chaldean Dynasty of Babylon.

From the beginning the Rastas decided that their personal loyalty lay with Africa's only black monarch, Selassie, and that they themselves were in effect as free citizens of Ethiopia, loyal to its Emperor and devoted to its flag representing the Solomonic Dynasty prior to the Communist coup.

From the relationship of Owen Tudor and Queen Catherine descended Henry VII of England and the Tudor Dynasty.

From its inception under Taizu, the Song Dynasty alternated between warfare and diplomacy with the ethnic Khitans of the Liao Dynasty in the northeast and with the Tanguts of the Western Xia Dynasty in the northwest.

From the Han Dynasty, the title Huangdi could also be abbreviated to huang or di.

From ancient times until the Sui Dynasty, castration was both a traditional punishment ( one of the Five Punishments ) and a means of gaining employment in the Imperial service.

From 1420 to 1644, the Forbidden City was the seat of the Ming Dynasty.

From the late Shāng Dynasty, Chinese writing evolved into the form found in cast inscriptions on Chinese ritual bronzes made during the Western Zhou Dynasty ( c 1066 – 770 BC ) and the Spring and Autumn Period ( 770 – 476 BC ), a kind of writing called 金文 jīnwén " metal script ".

From this taste of the 1920s, we leaped way out to Stan Getz's private brand of progressive jazz, which did lovely, subtle things for `` Baubles, Bangles And Beads '', and a couple of ballards.

From the 1920s to the 1960s, strong economic growth, abundant natural resources and development of infrastruture, led to the arrival of even more Portuguese settlers.

From the late 1920s he was concerned with social housing, inexpensive production methods, new materials, prefabrication and standardisation.

From the 1920s until the late 1980s, the town of Borehamwood was home to one of the major British film studio complexes, including the MGM-British Studios.

From the 1910s until the 1920s he participated in anarchist activities and popular uprisings in various countries including Switzerland, Germany, Hungary, Argentina and Cuba.

From the 1920s, the Kikuyu Central Association ( KCA ) focused on unifying the Kikuyu into one geographic polity, but its project was undermined by controversies over ritual tribute, land allocation, the ban on female circumcision, and support for Thuku.

From the 1920s onwards, the Modern movement sought to design and plan cities which followed the logic of the new model of industrial mass production ; reverting to large-scale solutions, aesthetic standardisation and prefabricated design solutions ( Goodchild 1990 ).

From the mid-1890s until the early 1920s both phonograph cylinder and disc recordings and machines to play them on were widely mass-marketed and sold.

From the 1920s onward, the movement spread around the globe, eventually affecting the visual arts, literature, film, and music of many countries and languages, as well as political thought and practice, philosophy, and social theory.

From its founding until through early 1920s, the University grew rapidly.

From about the 1920s onwards, it was realised that tensors play a basic role in algebraic topology ( for example in the Künneth theorem ).

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From 1935 to 1940, the Dow Jones average was down from around the 286 level during the late 1920s, to a stable level of 148, a loss of about 48 %.

From that time to the 1920s, physicists were seeking to explain atomic spectra and blackbody radiation.

From the 1880s through the 1920s, logging took place in many groves in spite of marginal commercial returns.

From the time it replaced oil and wax finishes in the 19th century, shellac was one of the dominant wood finishes in the western world until it was largely replaced by nitrocellulose lacquer in the 1920s and 1930s.

From the late 1920s, McClintock studied chromosomes and how they change during reproduction in maize.

From the organization of the first true radio networks in the late 1920s, broadcasting in the United States was dominated by two companies, CBS and RCA's NBC.

Musical works that mention flies: Yoko Ono's 1971 album Fly, U2's 1991 song " The Fly ", Wire's 1978 song " I Am The Fly ", Alice in Chains album Jar of Flies, Dave Matthews's 2007 song " The Fly " and Béla Bartók's 1920s piano work " From the Diary of a Fly ".

From the 1920s onwards, armor-piercing weapons were required for anti-tank missions.

From the 1920s, most Russian sea shipments were diverted from the White Sea to the new port of Murmansk, where the waters did not freeze in winter.

From the 1920s through the 1950s, Harpo Marx performed pantomime and wore either a curly red or curly blonde wig in character.

From the 1920s until the 1950s the company, under the name " Wyandotte Toys ", was the nation's largest manufacturer of toy guns and pistols, producing a wide variety of pop guns, clicker pistols, dart guns, cap guns and a variety of plastic pistols.

From the 1920s onwards there had been severe congestion at the line's northern terminus, Finsbury Park, where travellers had to change on to trams and buses for destinations in North and North East London.

From the 1920s to the 1950s some young Wilkes County males made their living by delivering moonshine to North Carolina's larger towns and cities.