Under the Ming, China was the Great Ming, under the Qing, China was the Great Qing, and so on. Yet on unofficial documents, the name Zhongguo lived on. The full given name of China today is Zhonghua Renmin Gong He Guo, or Peoples Republic of China.Under the Ming, China was the Great Ming, under the Qing, China was the Great Qing

What was the original name of China?

The first time Zhongguo was used as the Chinese nations official name was in the Sino-Russian Treaty of Nerchinsk of 1689. In 1912, Zhongguo was designated the short-form Chinese name for the Republic of China, and the Peoples Republic inherited the name in 1949.

What was China called before 1912?

the Republic of China Chinas last dynasty was the Qing (1644–1912), which was replaced by the Republic of China in 1912, and then in the mainland by the Peoples Republic of China in 1949.

Who is the ancestor of Chinese?

An international study has found that the Chinese people originated not from Peking Man in northern China, but from early humans in East Africa who moved through South Asia to China some 100,000 years ago, Hong Kongs Ming Pao daily reported yesterday in a finding that confirms the single origin theory in