Link to the 17 page google document that totally wouldn't fit on Reddit. I'll separate my post into a super short summation of what was going on everywhere, then my thoughts/reason for putting this together and what I want to see in the future. Anyways, super short cliff-notes version:

North-West: Ma Teng/Han Sui/Liu Yan fight with Li Jue and eventually make peace. Li Jue loses the Emperor due to bandits/internal faction stuff and then gets killed due to Cao Cao's machinations. Meanwhile, Ma Teng and Han Sui engage in a blood feud because of Cao Cao's machinations.

South-West: Shi Xie still does nothing but trade at this point. Liu Zhang deals with Zhang Lu resisting his rule, his own officers not respecting him, and Liu Biao inciting a riot in his eastern territories that involve Gan Ning.

North-East: Gongsun Zan and Yuan Shao engage in battles after many of the other warlords in the region were consolidated, but Gongsun Zan's army would fall apart because of Barbarians/Officers under him turning on him, and he would hole himself up in his capital until Yuan Shao was able to siege in and kill him.

South-East: Sun Ce as a vassal of Yuan Shu fights Liu Yao, Wang Lang, and the bandits in the area, in particular Yan Baihu. Much of what CA has done in the SE is creative license over what was going on in the area. When Yuan Shu declares himself Emperor, Sun Ce splits from him. He eventually takes Lujiang from Yuan Shu and attacks Huang Zu to cement his position from the southlands, then dies due to Yan Baihu + other's men.

Jingzhou and Liu Biao: Liu Biao got Zhang Xiu as a vassal in Nanyang, but didn't expand his territory and just chilled out while antagonizing Liu Zhang and Sun Ce at times.

The Central Plains: Lu Bu took all of Cao Cao's territory outside 3 towns (the opposite of Lu Bu's start in the game where Cao Cao is chasing him from the west), got driven to ally with Liu Bei but would turn on him after Zhang Fei caused a riot by killing the chancellor of the town he was in, and would proceed to vassalize Liu Bei. Liu Bei would then raise troops/steal Lu Bu's horses causing Lu Bu to attack Liu Bei, and Liu Bei would flee to Cao Cao. The combined forces would then attack Lu Bu, and eventually capture and kill him.

Meanwhile, Cao Cao pacified the region of bandits and almost died from trying to get with Zhang Ji's wi

https://youtu.be/Hqwry93-p0U R5: The author of the book he debunks uses fake citations and claims norse navigational findings were actually Chinese.

Another way of asking the question would be: how long has the conception that the geographical region we know today as China, notwithstanding its vast land area and historically heterogeneous population, should be a unified political entity been around, and have there been any prominent arguments against it?

Edit: oops, I meant 1916-1928; also, the period is part of modern China, not ancient China :/

This excerpt is from the book "Chan and Enlightenment" by Master Sheng Yen (Wikipedia). It's in the first talk titled "Chan and Enlightenment". The Chan Buddhism Wikipedia entry has a section titled Periodization which has two additional ways of dividing periods of Chan history. Where possible, I included links to more information on people and texts. Anything in parentheses without links was originally in the text, the links are my additions (with the exception of the Chinese title for "The Gate of Essential Expediencies for Entering the Path and Calming the Mind").

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The Chan School of China

The Chan School in China can be seen as Chan prior to the coming of the Sixth Patriarch Huineng (Wikipedia | Terebess), when he became the Sixth Patriarch, and after his passing.

Prior to the Sixth Patriarch, Master Huineng

Prior to the Sixth Patriarch Master Huineng, the Chan School took shape in two directions, one of them being passed down from Bodhidharma (Wikipedia | Terebess), and the other being transmitted by the lineage masters of other schools. When the lineage of Bodhidharma was passed down to the Fourth Patriarch, Master Daoxin (580-651) (Wikipedia | Terebess), it branched into two lines of Niutou Farong (594-657) (Wikipedia | Terebess) and Dongshan Hongren (601-674) (Wikipedia | Terebess). Generally, Hongren is taken to be the Fifth Patriarch of the Chan school because he was the teacher of Huineng. In fact, Farong was also the disciple of the Fourth Patriarch, and his line was carried on for seven generations, and gradually disappeared after Niake Daolin (741-824). As for Chan masters outside the lineage of Bodhidharma, they include Zhu Daoshen (355-434), Sengchou (480-560) (Chinese Wikipedia | [Terebess](https://terebess.hu/zen/mesterek/

Did most people spend most of human history just being peasants, working long hours on the farm, growing whatever staple crops were important to that region? Was everyone just sort of uniformly miserable?

All the history books talk about big dramatic events (wars, plagues etc.) and unique people (kings, writers, military commanders etc.). It occurs to me that most people were commoners and most of the time they weren't in the middle of some unusual situation. Are there any good resources on what life was like for these people, and how they felt about their lot?

I've never felt entirely happy about the strong focus on opium in the histories I've read. How significant were attempts to introduce Christianity, and general disruption to life in the coastal provinces caused by the development of European trade? Did British and French interference exacerbate much older tensions within China?

The term "modern history of China" I mean refers to the period from 1840(The First Opium Wars) to 1950(the end of The Chinese Civil War). Since Taiwanese people have begun to have a new identity that distinguishes them from China(PRC), it is unlikely that many historical dramas/movies about Chinese history will be made in Taiwan. But I don't want to watch any made in PRC that deal with this period since so many works are full of praising "the superiority of Chinese civilization to Western civilization" and the Chinese Communist Party. So I'd like to ask if you guys know any historical dramas/movies made in Taiwan dealing with this period. Thanks.

Appeasing China is no different than the appeasement of Hitler pre-WW2. The only thing that will make China reconsider its path is if their economy collapses, but with billions of investment from western corporation, that won't happen soon. Meanwhile China is committing genocide, suppressing freedom, murdering innocents, operates a dystopian legal system. When will we, the consumers, put our money where our mouth is and stop buying from these greedy corporation. Blizzard is only the latest to cave.

I've been watching the spread of the virus via this link (from the sidebar of this sub):

https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6

And while it's all well and good, it doesn't seem to allow you to remove any countries from the list (maybe I'm wrong, but I haven't figured out how to do it, at least). Considering how dubious the statistics coming from China are, as well as how overwhelming they are as a proportion of the world total, I'd like to see data for the world outside China - not a country-by-country thing, but a whole-world-except China thing.

Help, anyone?

Edit: OK, I worked it out. The bottom right of that webpage has the mainland China and non-China cases plotted on a graph, and you can uncheck the China (and total recovered) cases to get a graph of the cases outside the country. https://imgur.com/ZGRvh56