refers to a number of states and cultures that have existed and are viewed as having succeeded one another in continental East Asia, dating back at least 3,500 years. Modern China has been described as both a single civilization and multiple civilizations, as a single state or multiple states, and as a single nation or multiple nations.

With one of the world’s longest periods of mostly uninterrupted civilization and the world’s longest continuously used written language system, China’s history has been largely characterized by repeated divisions and reunifications amid alternating periods of peace and war, and violent imperial dynastic change. The country’s territorial extent expanded outwards from a core area in the North Ch

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