The Emperor Wu-ti Liang explains the Buddhist Books. China. 1847.

Print from steel engraving titled „L‘ Empereur Wou-ti des Liang explique les Livres bouddhiques.Chine“.

Artist and engraver L. Massard.

Published in the China volume of L\\\'Univers (Meyers), 1847.

Notes: 56.

China officially the People\\\'s Republic of China (PRC), is a sovereign state located in East Asia. It is the world\\\'s most populous country. The PRC is a single-party state governed by the Communist Party, with its seat of government in the capital city of Beijing. It exercises jurisdiction over 22 provinces, five autonomous regions, four direct-controlled municipalities (Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, and Chongqing), and two mostly self-governing special administrative regions (Hong Kong and Macau). The PRC also claims the territories governed by the Republic of China (ROC), a separate political entity commonly known as Taiwan today, as a part of its territory, which includes the island of Taiwan as Taiwan Province, Kinmen and Matsu as a part of Fujian Province and islands the ROC controls in the South China Sea as a part of Hainan Province, a claim which is controversial due to the complex political status of Taiwan.

History:

The history of China goes back to the ancient civilization – one of the world\\\'s earliest – that flourished in the fertile basin of the Yellow River in the North China Plain. For millennia, China\\\'s political system was based on hereditary monarchies, known as dynasties, beginning with the semi-mythological Xia of the Yellow River basin (c. 2000 BCE). Since 221 BCE, when the Qin Dynasty first conquered several states to form a Chinese empire, the country has expanded, fractured and been reformed numerous times.

Approx. image size 14, 5 x 9, 7/22, 2 x 14 cm.

Condition: good.