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Controversies in China

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Tank Man
anonymous man who stood in front of a column of Chinese tanks during the Tiananmen Square protests
foot binding
Chinese custom of applying tight binding to the feet of young girls to modify the shape and size of their feet as a status symbol and mark of beauty, practised from 10th to early 20th centuries
Jianwen Emperor
emperor of China from 1398 to 1402
Li Ching-Yuen
Chinese martial artist and herbalist who claimed extreme longevity
Wuhan Institute of Virology
facility in Wuhan, China
Century of Humiliation
Historiographical concept for a period of intervention and subjugation of China by foreign powers
Princess Wencheng
Chinese princess, Tibetan empress (628–680)
Chinese Rites controversy
17th–18th-century dispute among Roman Catholic missionaries
Yulin Festival and Dog meat Consumption in China
annual festival and consumption in China
Pax Sinica
periods of regional peace maintained by Chinese hegemony
Gonghe Regency
regency
COVID-19 lab leak theory
proposed hypothesis on the origin of SARS-CoV-2
Zhongshan Warship Incident
1926 purge undertaken by Chiang Kai-shek
Hua–Yi distinction
ancient distinction between Chinese people and foreigners
Li Wangyang
Chinese dissident labor rights activist (1950–2012)
Hu Jintao removal incident
Hu Jintao forced removal from the 20th CCP National Congress venue by his heir Xi Jinping's subordinate
Sister Hong hijueputa
scandal in China
conquest dynasty
imperial dynasty of China ruled by a non-Han ethnicity
2022 Guizhou bus crash
2022 road incident in China
Balhae controversies
East Asian historiographic dispute
Goguryeo controversies
historiographical dispute between China and Korea
Wong Yuk-man
Hong Kong politician (born 1951)
Great Rites Controversy
controversy in the decade following 1524 in Ming China, pitting the Jiajing Emperor against the Grand Secretary Yang Tinghe
Zhu Benli
Chinese Emperor
New Qing History
school of thought on the history of the Qing dynasty
historical nihilism
term used by the Chinese Communist Party to refer to hisorical viewpoints critical of its history
Sino-Babylonianism
thumb|300px|Tower of the Jade Emperor (玉皇阁 Yùhuánggé), central pavilion of a temple to the supreme godhead, in Guide, [[Qinghai. Jade Emperor shrines are frequently built on raised platforms, especially in western China.]] Sino-Babylonianism is the theory (now rejected by most scholars) that in the third millennium B.C., the civilization which existed in the Babylonian region provided the essential elements of material civilization and language to what is now China. Albert Terrien de Lacouperie (1845–1894) was the first theorist to hypothesize that a massive migration by Babylonians brought th