Outline of ancient China

Geography of ancient China

Locations in ancient China

• List of Bronze Age sites in China

  Regions of ancient China

• Regions of ancient China during the Xia and Shang dynasties
• * Nine Provinces
• *# Ji Province
• *# Jing Province
• *# Liang Province
• *# Qing Province
• *# Xu Province
• *# Yan Province
• *# Yang Province
• *# Yong Province
• *# Yu Province

  Government and politics of ancient China

• Political thought in ancient China
• * Mandate of Heaven
• Ancient Chinese states
• Interstate relations during the Spring and Autumn period
• Family tree of ancient Chinese emperors
• Aristocracy in ancient China

  Rulers in ancient China

• Kings of the Xia dynasty
• * Yu the Great
• * Qi
• * Tai Kang
• * Zhong Kang
• * Xiang
• * Shao Kang
• * Zhu
• * Huai
• * Mang
• * Xie
• * Bu Jiang
• * Jiong
• * Jin
• * Kong Jia
• * Gao
• * Fa
• * Jie
• Kings of the Shang Dynasty
• * Early Shang period
• ** Da Yi
• ** Da Ding
• ** Da Jia
• ** Bu Bing
• ** Da Geng
• ** Xiao Jia
• ** Da Wu
• ** Lü Ji
• ** Zhong Ding
• ** Bu Ren
• ** Jian Jia
• ** Zu Yi
• ** Zu Xin
• ** Qiang Jia
• ** Zu Ding
• ** Nan Geng
• ** Xiang Jia
• * Yin period
• ** Pan Geng
• ** Xiao Xin
• ** Xiao Yi
• ** Wu Ding
• ** Zu Geng
• ** Zu Jia
• ** Lin Xin
• ** Kang Ding
• ** Wu Yi
• ** Wen Wu Ding
• ** Di Yi
• ** Di Xin

  Ancient Chinese law

• Traditional Chinese law

  Military history of ancient China

Military of ancient China

• Ancient Chinese armor
• Crossbow
• Military thought
• * During the Zhou Dynasty
• ** Six Secret Teachings – attributed to Lü Shang, a top general of King Wen of Zhou, founder of the Zhou dynasty
• * During Warring States period – great period for military strategy; of the Seven Military Classics of China, four were written during this period:
• ** The Art of War – attributed to Sun Tzu, a highly influential study of strategy and tactics.
• ** Wuzi – attributed to Wu Qi, a statesman and commander who served the states of Wei and then Chu.
• ** Wei Liaozi – of uncertain authorship.
• ** The Methods of the Sima – attributed to Sima Rangju, a commander serving the state of Qin.

  General history of ancient China

Ancient Chinese history, by period

• Neolithic China – predates ancient China
• Bronze Age China
• * Xia dynasty
• * Shang dynasty
• * Zhou dynasty
• ** Western Zhou
• Iron Age China
• * Zhou dynasty
• ** Eastern Zhou
• *** Spring and Autumn period
• *** Warring States period

  Ancient Chinese history, by region

• Ancient history of Beijing
• Ancient history of Shanghai
• Ye

  Ancient Chinese history, by subject

Works on ancient Chinese history

• Records of the Grand Historian
• The Cambridge History of Ancient China
• ''Twenty-Four Histories''

  Culture of ancient China

• Architecture in ancient China
• * Ancient Chinese wooden architecture
• Dogs in ancient China
• Games in ancient China
• * Chuiwan
• * Cuju
• * Go
• * Liubo
• Mythology of China
• * Chinese creation myth
• * Chinese dragon
• Ancient Chinese urban planning
• Women in ancient and imperial China

  Art in ancient China

Performing arts in ancient China

• Juggling in ancient China
• Music in ancient China
• * Yayue

  Language in ancient China

• Old Chinese or Archaic Chinese
• Classical Chinese or Literary Chinese
• History of names in ancient China
• * History of Chinese personal names
• * History of Chinese surnames in ancient China
• ** Origin of Chinese surnames
• ** Eight Great Surnames of Chinese Antiquity
• Evolution of written Chinese
• * Oracle bone script – earliest confirmed evidence of the Chinese script yet discovered is the body of inscriptions carved on oracle bones from the late Shang dynasty.
• * Chinese bronze inscriptions
• * Seal script

  Literature in ancient China

• Ancient Chinese classics

  People in ancient China

• * Ancient Chinese philosophers
• Family tree of ancient Chinese emperors

  Philosophy in ancient China

• Hundred Schools of Thought
• School of Names
• Ancient Chinese philosophers

  Economics and infrastructure of ancient China

• Economic history of ancient China
• Coinage in ancient China

  Science and technology of ancient China

• Chariots in ancient China
• * Xi Zhong
• Bamboo and wooden slips
• Crossbow