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== link to commercial page ==I am not sure if this is an issue here: as a bibliographic reference there is a link to a page, where they sell this online, as a lecture on DVD. quote: "Hammond, Kenneth J. From Yao to Mao: 5000 Years of Chinese History. The Teaching Company, 2004. (A lecture on DVD.)"Rene 217.231.123.215 (talk) 02:44, 4 January 2008 (UTC)Wikipeida sucks  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.2.254.28 (talk) 18:31, 21 February 2008 (UTC) ==Silver==I used the find funcion of internety explorer and found that this article does not contain a single mention of silver. Silver became a driving force in China's economy after Europe started trading all they had for porcelain, silk, and tea. It (rather the lack of it) was one of the driving forces in the Opium War as Britain had started essentially trading its opium for China's items. The Qing Dynasty fell due to unrest caused by these wars. The fact that the article about the history of china does not contain this huge part of china's history is amazing to me. I used the checker again and found that the article contains no mention of the civil exams of the Han dynasties forward, another huge probelem with the article.Holoeconomics (talk) 12:27, 29 February 2008 (UTC)== Present Day ==I am confused. Why are there long sections in the article dealing with both famous as well as obscure dynasties, but the section on present day China ends with events that happened over 50 years ago? I understand that there is a seperate article about the PRC, but there should be at least a summary of the events of the last 50 years, including the 'Cultural Revolution', the rise and effect of Chinese industry on the world economy, and the transition of power in Hong Kong.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.96.106.130 (talk) 18:07, 13 March 2008 (UTC) == (although carbon dating has been proved to be unpredictable) ==This parenthetic phrase was recently added "(although carbon dating has been proved to be unpredictable)" to the sentence "Early evidence for proto-Chinese millet agriculture is carbon-dated to about 7,000 BC".  First, the correct word would be "unreliable", not "unpredictable".  Second, how unreliable is it?  Third, why is pointing out that unreliability important here?  Do we always point out the unreliability when carbon dating is used, or only in this particular case?  I've removed the phrase for now until we have some answers. Readin (talk) 14:10, 4 April 2008 (UTC)==ATTENTION===There are SEVERAL small and semi-hidden OFFENSIVE phrases throughout the Article, that is: VANDALISM. Please re-check.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 132.235.42.61 (talk) 02:22, 16 May 2008 (UTC) == some vandalism undetected for several revisions ==An increasing number of "" like to get "" through the  front of all the nomadic people in Northern China  Confucianism got "" the most. as personal life guidance and state ideology he would masterbatt while getting his "". becoming gradually assimilated into the Han Chinese civilization. During this rivalry between Northern and Southern China, Buddhism propagated throughout China for the first time, despite facing opposition from Taoist followers. Tuo Ba Tao (拓跋焘), a faithful Taoist believer and emperor of the Northern Wei (北魏) Dynasty (one of the Northern Dynasties), issued orders to eliminate Buddhism from the country.-- i took this out, someone fix this please 129.97.219.94 (talk) 05:02, 18 May 2008 (UTC)