Both Harvard China History Series and Cambridge China History Series acknowledge that the Yuan Dynasty is the history of China.
The Yuan Dynasty (127 1 year-1368) was the first unified dynasty established by ethnic minorities in the history of China, and the rulers were Mongolians. Most (present-day Beijing) was the capital city, and it spread to the fifth generation 1 1 emperor. From/kloc-0 to 206, Genghis Khan established the Mongolian regime and Kublai Khan established the country, which lasted for 98 years.
1260, Kublai Khan ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor, establishing the "United China". 127 1 year, Kublai Khan changed the name of the country to "Dayuan" in the Book of Changes, and the capital was Dadu in the following year. 1279, the exiled regime in the Southern Song Dynasty was completely destroyed, ending the long-term chaos since the end of the Tang Dynasty.
After that, the Yuan Dynasty continued to expand abroad and attacked Japan, Myanmar, Vietnam and Java, but all failed. In the mid-Yuan Dynasty, the succession to the throne was chaotic, coups were frequent, politics was never on the right track, localization was slow, and development was stagnant. In the later period, political corruption, powerful ministers in power, and increasingly serious ethnic and class contradictions led to the peasant uprising at the end of the Yuan Dynasty.
Kublai Khan, Yuan Shizu, in view of the fact that the map of this dynasty is wide, and it is not enough to show its grandeur by taking the name of the first place or the first city as in Han and Tang Dynasties, so he promulgated the Imperial edict of People's Republic of China (PRC) in 127 1 year, with Yijing as the meaning of "Great Gan Yuan" and "Dayuan" as the title.
Shi Jing Grand Ceremony, the official edition of the Yuan Dynasty, explains: "One yuan is the greatest. Too big to be exhausted, it is said that the yuan is big. "
After the establishment of the Yuan Dynasty, the name of Great Mongolia was no longer used in China literature, but it was not abolished. It is still used in Mongolian books, usually with the name of China country.
Roman characters are transliterated as Dion Yerke Mongols (Dayuan Great Mongolia) or Dion Yerke Mongols (known as Dayuan Great Mongolia) of Kyoto Electronic Industry Co., Ltd. of Japan. 1368, Yuan Ting retreated to Mobei, so the remnants of Yuan Ting were called Beiyuan.
A brief introduction to the history of Harvard China;
The six-volume series of Harvard China History is led by Professor Timothy Brook, an internationally renowned sinologist, and brings together three well-known sinologists: William Rowe, Lu Lu and Dieter Kuhn.
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From 2265438 BC to the end of the Qing Dynasty at the beginning of the 20th century, this series is divided into six imperial times-the classical era of Qin and Han Dynasties, the great division of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the social transformation of the world empire in Tang and Song Dynasties, the rise and fall of the Yuan and Ming empires under the influence of climate change, and the Qing Dynasty with remarkable achievements and unprecedented pomp, thus stringing together the ups and downs of Chinese civilization in 2000.
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References:
Baidu Encyclopedia-Harvard China History