A brief of Chinese History

The formulation of the Chinese nation has gone through severe changes throughout the history, the most recent of which as a result of the last Chinese Civil War (1949). The outcome of the war was the creation of two entities: the People's Republic of China and the Republic of China. The first controls the main land, Hong Kong and Macau and the latter has control of Taiwan and related islands.

China is referred to as the oldest continuous civilization with a history of over 5,000 years. It also uses one of the world's oldest written languages. Its cultural sphere extended across East Asia as a whole, "with Chinese religion, customs, and writing systems being adopted to varying degrees by neighbors such as Japan, Korea and Vietnam.