Mango Elephant
Deity
I know, I read that last page. 
I read it before I made my last post. Oh well. Peking would be a cool sounding city.
I read it before I made my last post. Oh well. Peking would be a cool sounding city.
If in a Civ game China was represented by a dynasty ...
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It's just a different kind of transliteration. (You know, because Chinese doesn't use the Latin alphabet. Barbarians.) They're pronounced the exact same way.
Apparently "Peking" is either derived from an old form of Mandarin or from Hokkein.
"Beijing" and "Pei-ching" are different transliterations of the same pronounciation however.
I know, I read that last page.
Peking is certainly a delicious sounding duck.
Ming isn't exactly modern... I mean, when the Ming were just on the way out, Shakespeare (or Bacon, the Zheng He of the West) was busy writing his stuff.
And when the Ming were on the way in, the Black Death was having a fun raunch through Europe.
Point is compared to places like Chang'an/Xi'an or Jiankang/Nanjing its rise to prominance is quite recent.
Kraznaya
Princeps
Ming Shanghai wasn't incredibly important. The main commercial port on the Huangpu Jiang was Songjiang, but it wasn't nearly as vital to China then as Shanghai became after being established as one of the few conduits for traffic with the Europeans during the Qing period.
Luckymoose
The World is Mine
Occupied China, doesn't matter by who.
aelf
Ashen One
Why, the Mao dynasty, of course. The Civ series' obsession with him can't have it otherwise.
That or the Zheng dynasty. Created through Chinese-pioneered cloning, of course.
That or the Zheng dynasty. Created through Chinese-pioneered cloning, of course.
LightSpectra
me autem minui
Also, a good drink.
ParkCungHee
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We should go with the second Qing dynasty.
I never said I prefer the Song myself.
Personally the first half of the Tang is the closest to my ideal representative Chinese dynasty. Militantly expansive, well-run and very cosmopolitan.
I thought the Tang would do it - artistic too. In the game of civ, representing any country by a single dynasty seems best when its confined to a certain timeline. Ideally, there would be a changing of the guard with each major era (Unfortunately we cant all be present there) But lets face it, seeing Victoria's face is never easy, especially on the diplomacy screen in 4000 BC.
Terrance888
Discord Reigns
I always though Tang is more of a cultural heritage than the Song. At my school that I went to china, poems are divided into three sections: Ancient Poems (GuShi) Tang Dynasty Poems (TangShi) and Song Poems (ChangShi) (ie, nursery rhyme type stuff.) However, this is for 2nd grade education, so I am not sure if they divided them up differently later or expained differently.
WWTVICTOR
Webroamer
In my opinion, I will choose Tang, Song or Ming although China is a combination of various histories.
Tang as a successed diplomatic player, gaining her land smartly and handling conflicts around the world in between potential regional powers. Song is an expert merchant, and poet. Ming had large voyages and a small indication of the start capitalism, but with rampant corruption.
Tang as a successed diplomatic player, gaining her land smartly and handling conflicts around the world in between potential regional powers. Song is an expert merchant, and poet. Ming had large voyages and a small indication of the start capitalism, but with rampant corruption.
aronnax
Let your spirit be free
You have a few large expeditions and that's all people can remember...
