Chinese imperial food dates back to slave society ... There were several dozen varieties of fowl, such as the chicken, peasant, sparrow, and wild goose; and nearly 20 kinds of cold-blooded ...

peasant uprisings and rebellions. Understandably, when the news of gold and opportunity in far away Gum San, (Golden Mountain- the Chinese name for America) reached China, many Chinese seized the ...

In 206 BCE, two powerful Chinese warlords gathered for a feast ... Liu Bang was born into a peasant family in Pei County in modern-day Jiangsu Province in eastern China in the mid-3rd century ...

During the Cultural Revolution, Mao promoted a semiliterate peasant to the office of vice premier and a low-level cadre at a ...