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Let’s say you wanted to remember the names of Chinese dynasties: Zhou, Ch’in, Han, Tang, Ming.

From Washington Post • Apr. 8, 2023

Shensi is reverenced as the birthplace of the Chinese nation, and when the country was first unified by the Ch'in dynasty in 221 B.C., its capital was near present-day Sian.

From Time Magazine Archive

Even more astonishing, a poem circulated at the protest read: "Gone for good is Ch'in Shih Huang feudal society."

From Time Magazine Archive

In the 3rd century B.C., he forcibly united most of China around the northeastern state of Ch'in and established a tyrannical rule that was soon swept away in civil war.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Minister of Crime in the State of Ch‘in asked Confucius whether Duke Ch‘au, of Lu was acquainted with the Proprieties; and he answered, "Yes, he knows them."

From The Wisdom of Confucius with Critical and Biographical Sketches by Wilson, Epiphanius