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When people say Asia, the first thing that would pop in their heads is China (Much to the other Asians dismay). China as we all know, is one of the Oldest As Fuck Civilizations that is still flexing their Geopolitical muscles, with a history that spends over 5000 years and is still kicking. How old are they? they were already making high city walls and Empires when the Glorious Romans were still living in mud huts, yeah that fucking old. Only the likes of the Egyptian Dynasties, Mesopotamia, Babylonian Empire, India and other early Middle-Eastern/Euro-African Empires rivaled or surpasses it in sheer age. Furthermore, unlike most civilizations which had one Golden Age in its lifetime, China had Three Golden Ages. However unlike the others listed (With the exception of India) who unfortunately suffered the common symptoms of civilization heart attacks, coronary barbarian infections or outright absorptions, China and to some extent India manage to survive by sheer isolation. China is also known for their Celestial Dragon Emprahs, multiple imperial Dynasties, overpoweringly influential, being too unusually advance for their age for nearly 2000 years, "Four Great Inventions" (Compass, Gunpowder, Paper and Printing), Confucius, martial arts, Chinese New Year and now recently Communists or manufacturing everything you buy in very, very poor quality.

On a much more unfortunate note, China was also known as being a bunch of incredibly Arrogant and Egoistical Cockhats with a massive Superiority Complex that made even the Stiff Upper-Lip British look tame in comparison. In a more simplified note, they viewed themselves and their civilization as the, "Center of the Universe and only civilization on the planet, that is unfortunately surrounded by filthy uncivilized barbarians and animals that want to pillage China because their soooooo jealous of our cultural enlightenment and achievements". Tl;dr sounds fucking familiar to you?

History of China Part 1: The Ancient Times

As we all know, China has a lot of historical content, so we tried our best to fit all the important bits and peaces in a small and condensed paragraph.

Prehistory

Leving aside some Homo erectus, Modern Humans first showed up in East Asia about 75,000 years ago. For at least 20,000 people in China were making pottery. About 7,000 BCE some chinese farmers worked out how to grow millet and we have the rise and fall of a bunch of regional cultures to which we know little, but we do know that they worked out glazed ceramics, how to make silk and by 3,000 BCE could work bronze.

Shang Dynsaty

In the Shang Dynasty we begin to get written accounts about how things operated and we see something to the effect of Chinese writing emerging written on cattle bones. The Shang Dynasty was a theocracy in which a central priest king who ruled by burning bones and making predictions based on how they cracked. Weird as this is, the Shang managed to make a bunch of other clans of people their vassals and get taxes out of them and this set up lasted for more than 500 years.

Even so it eventually fell. Apparently the Shang had a network of beacons going from their capital. If there was an incursion from some hostile tribe in the as of yet uncivilized parts of china or something to that effect, they would light the beacons and the country would muster its army to fight. It worked well enough until one of the last Shang Kings decided to light the beacons and get the whole kingdom panicking and scrambling to duty for the lulz, then did it again and again. Eventually people got tired of his shit and just ignored the beacons, including the time when the Zhou decided to march in and take over.

Zhou Dynasty

Spring and Autumn Rapefest

Warring States Period of Bloodbath

History of China Part 4: From "Red is Best, Fuck Capitalism!" to "Get Rich is Glorious!"

Cold War: Great Concept, but utter Failures

Korean War

China and USSR Marriage Proposal

Great Leap Backwards

The Divorce

Cultural Revolution: It Failed Again

Nixon in China

Goodbye Mao and hello Capitalism

Chinese Analogues in Fantasy

Due to its exoticism and age, there are a couple of Chinese inspired Empires in Fantasy.

• Eldar - Despite having weapons like Shuriken Catapults and Celtic names, the Eldar is actually more Chinese inspired. Examples include the cultural and historical arrogance, being incredibly advance for their Era, martial arts, being fantastic racists to everyone else and the obvious Yin-Yang symbols in some of the Eldar artworks.
• Cathay - Based on the old name for China, this is deliberate and perfect example.
• Dynasty Warriors - A series of Video Games based solely on the Chinese mythology and legends, expect a lot oversexualised women since the games was created in Japan.
• Jade Dynasty - similar to Dynasty Warriors, but in MMO style.
• Easterlings - The Movies depicted them as Persians with Chinese influence, while GW based most of their models on Samurais.