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General History of China
Season 1 · Episode 90
The Recovery of Taiwan
0.045mJanuary 21, 2013
The Qing defeats the Zheng regime in Taiwan and incorporates the island into the empire, reshaping maritime defense and cross-strait administration.
Episodes
- Episode 1China Road
- Episode 2The Earliest Chinese
- Episode 3The Rise of Agriculture
- Episode 4The Origins of Civilization
- Episode 5The Age of Early States
- Episode 6The Xia Dynasty
- Episode 7The Rise and Fall of the Shang Dynasty
- Episode 8Shang Civilization
- Episode 9King Wu's Conquest of Shang
- Episode 10The Regency of the Duke of Zhou
- Episode 11The Decline of the Zhou Royal House
- Episode 12The Struggle for Supremacy in the Spring and Autumn Period
- Episode 13Confucius
- Episode 14Reforms Among the Warring States
- Episode 15The Seven Warring States
- Episode 16The Hundred Schools of Thought
- Episode 17The Rise of the State of Qin
- Episode 18Qin Shi Huang Unifies China
- Episode 19The Chu-Han Contention
- Episode 20The Parallel System of Commanderies and Kingdoms
- Episode 21The Rule of Wen and Jing
- Episode 22Emperor Wu of Han
- Episode 23Confucian Learning During the Two Han Dynasties
- Episode 24The Reign of Emperors Zhao and Xuan
- Episode 25Wang Mang's Reforms
- Episode 26The Restoration of Emperor Guangwu
- Episode 27The Silk Road
- Episode 28The Pure Critiques and the Partisan Prohibitions
- Episode 29The Yellow Turban Rebellion
- Episode 30The Three Kingdoms
- Episode 31Zhuge Liang Governs Shu
- Episode 32The Unification Under Western Jin
- Episode 33The Spirit of the Wei and Jin Periods
- Episode 34Rule by the Great Aristocratic Clans
- Episode 35Emperor Wu of Liang's Government
- Episode 36Emperor Xiaowen's Reforms
- Episode 37Emporer Wu of Northern Zhou
- Episode 38The Rise and Fall of the Chen Dynasty
- Episode 39Buddhism in the Wei and Jin Periods
- Episode 40The Restoration of Unity
- Episode 41Emperor Yang of Sui: Achievements and Failures
- Episode 42The Reign of Zhenguan
- Episode 43Empress Wu Zetian
- Episode 44The Prosperous Kaiyuan Era
- Episode 45The An Lushan Rebellion
- Episode 46The Predicament of the Middle and Late Tang
- Episode 47Chang'an: Metropolis of the World
- Episode 48The Rise and Fall of the Tibetan Empire
- Episode 49Dunhuang
- Episode 50The Tang Dynasty's Foreign Relations
- Episode 51Religion During the Tang Dynasty
- Episode 52The Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms
- Episode 53Emperor Taizu of Song
- Episode 54The Chanyuan Treaty
- Episode 55Governing the Realm with the Scholar-Officials
- Episode 56Wang Anshi's Reforms
- Episode 57The Jingkang Catastrophe
- Episode 58War and Peace Between Song and Jin
- Episode 59The Southern Song's Refuge in the Southeast
- Episode 60The Dreamlike Splendor of the Eastern Capital
- Episode 61Neo-Confucianism During the Song Dynasty
- Episode 62Song Dynasty Culture
- Episode 63The Rise of Khitan
- Episode 64The Founding of Western Liao
- Episode 65Wanyan Aguda
- Episode 66The Rise and Fall of the Jin Dynasty
- Episode 67Liao and Jin Culture
- Episode 68The Rise and Fall of Western Xia
- Episode 69The Rise of the Mongols
- Episode 70Kublai Khan
- Episode 71Imperial Progresses Between the Two Capitals
- Episode 72Phagpa, Imperial Preceptor of the Great Yuan
- Episode 73The Maritime Silk Road
- Episode 74Marco Polo and China
- Episode 75Emperor Shun of Yuan
- Episode 76Zhu Yuanzhang, Founder of the Ming Dynasty
- Episode 77The Yongle Emperor Moves the Capital
- Episode 78Zheng He’s Voyages to the Western Oceans
- Episode 79The Grand Secretariat System
- Episode 80The Tumu Crisis
- Episode 81Wang Yangming's Philosophy of Mind
- Episode 82Maritime Frontiers and Foreign Trade
- Episode 83Zhang Juzheng's Reforms
- Episode 84The Jesuits Come to China
- Episode 85The Market Towns of Jiangnan
- Episode 86Silver Capital
- Episode 87The Chongzhen Emperor
- Episode 88Entering and Ruling the Central Plains
- Episode 89The Consolidation of the Qing Dynasty
- Episode 90The Recovery of Taiwan
- Episode 91The Great Enterprise of Unification
- Episode 92The Grand Council
- Episode 93Incorporating the Poll Tax into the Land Tax
- Episode 94Civil Government and the Literary Inquisitions
- Episode 95Reluctant Self-Strengthening
- Episode 96The Opium War
- Episode 97The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom
- Episode 98The First Sino-Japanse War
- Episode 99Reform and Revolution
- Episode 100The End of Imperial Rule