The successive ruling houses of imperial China, each identified by its dynastic name rather than by the generic title empire, the historiographic convention this atlas follows for China specifically. Belongs here: the Qin, Tang, Song and Qing dynasties and the Zhou dynasty's own recorded interregnum. Does not belong here: a non-Chinese conquest state, however dynastic in structure, filed under Empires and Imperial States, and present-day China, filed under Modern Sovereign Republics.
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1. Wikipedia: Dynasties in Chinese history
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Beginning with the establishment of a system of dynastic rule by Yu the Great c. 2070 BC ... Dynastic rule in China collapsed in AD 1912 when the Republic of China superseded the Qing dynasty following the success of the Xinhai Revolution.
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