How did China's 2,000-year empire collapse?

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China. A cradle of world civilisation. The land that invented  printing, paper and gunpowder. And under successive dynasties, the centre  of a vast empire that stretched from the Pacific Ocean to the Himalayas... and from the  eastern steppe to the tropical South China Sea. The Chinese call it Zhōngguó - the  Central State, or Middle Kingdom. And f... Read More