Fēngjiàn (Chinese: 封建; lit. 'demarcation and establishment') was a governance system in Ancient China and Imperial China, whose social structure formed...

22°48′46″N 113°09′18″E / 22.8128°N 113.1549°E / 22.8128; 113.1549 Fengjian Village (Chinese: 逢简村) is a village in Xingtan Town, Shunde, Foshan, Guangdong...

(Chinese: 十八國), also translated as "Eighteen States", refers to the eighteen fengjian states in China created by military leader Xiang Yu in 206 BCE, after the...

though the centralized authority of Son of Heaven was slowly eroded by fengjian lords. Some principalities eventually emerged from the weakened Zhou and...

its greatly expanded territory and prevent other revolts, he set up the fengjian system. Furthermore, he countered Zhou's crisis of legitimacy by expounding...

to identify China's recent past, neologized from the Chinese concept of fengjian (which means to allocate a region or piece of land to an individual, establishing...

and Japan during the Shogunate. Wu Ta-k'un argued that the Shang-Zhou fengjian were kinship estates, quite distinct from feudalism. James Lee and Cameron...

kingdom into East China, transforming it into an empire using the new Fengjian system. Edward L. Shaughnessy called the rebellion "a succession crisis...

The Jinshi archway in Fengjian Village, in Guangdong, China is a three-tier memorial archway. It commemorates the 13 Jinshi scholars from the village....

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