Question

关于中国历史的英语短文(演讲用)

Answer 1

history of China(中国历史)

China, one of the four oldest civilizations in the world, has a written
history of 4,000 years and boasts rich cultural relics and historical sites. It
is the inventor of compass, paper-making, gunpowder and printing. The Great
Wall, Grand Canal and Karez irrigation system are three great ancient
engineering projects built 2,000 years ago. Now they are the symbols of the rich
culture of the Chinese nation. China has gone over a long history of primitive
society, slavery society, feudal society and semi-feudal semi-colonial society
and the present socialist society.

Condensed China is an introduction to Chinese history. It exists to inform,
enlighten, and attract netizens interested in China. It is not a complete
history of China; I deliberately skipped over and left out a lot of information.
This is more like ''Chinese History: the Cliff Notes version" or "Chinese
History's Greatest Hits" than a full-fledged history.

The state examination system with its 1500 years long history was the most
important means of recruiting state officials in the large administration system
of the Chinese imperial state. Still today, the Chinese Taiwan perpetuates this
institution in the shape of the Examination Yuan , altough the Taiwan government
thinks about abolishing this institution because of its uselessness in a modern
state. The method to recruit state officials by subjecting them to an
examination on the one side opened access to higher posts to everyone who had
fortune enough to finance ten years or more of intensive studies, but on the
other side tied up manforce and capital that could otherwise serve for
investment in business or in politics. And the intensive studies of Confucian
Classics that was imposed on the candidates could also divert their thoughts and
activities from critique or even rebellion - not always successful, like the
case of the successless and disappointed candidate Hong Xiuquan, leader of the
Taiping rebellion, proves.

Answer 2

　　China, one of the four oldest civilizations in the world, has a written
history of 4,000 years and boasts rich cultural relics and historical sites. It
is the inventor of compass, paper-making, gunpowder and printing. The Great
Wall, Grand Canal and Karez irrigation system are three great ancient
engineering projects built 2,000 years ago. Now they are the symbols of the rich
culture of the Chinese nation. China has gone over a long history of primitive
society, slavery society, feudal society and semi-feudal semi-colonial society
and the present socialist society.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

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Answer 5

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