This is a list of Chinese Dynasties from around 2200BC until the introduction of Communist rule in 1912.
| DATES | DYNASTY |
| c. 22nd-18th centuries BC | Hsia |
| c. 18th-12th centuries BC | Shang or Yin |
| c. 1111 - 256 BC | Chou |
| c. 1111 - 770 BC | Western Chou |
| 770 - 256 BC | Eastern Chou |
| 770 - 476 BC | Ch'un Ch'iu Period |
| 475 - 221 BC | Warring States Period |
| 221 - 206 BC | Ch'in |
| 206 BC - 220 AD | Han |
| 206 BC - 9 AD | Western Han |
| 9 -23 AD | Hsin Interregnum |
| 25 - 220 AD | Eastern Han |
| 220 - 265 AD | Three Kingdoms Period |
| 265 - 420 AD | Chin |
| 265 - 317 AD | Western Chin |
| 317 - 420 AD | Eastern Chin |
| 420 - 589 AD | Northern and Southern Dynasties |
| 581 - 618 AD | Sui |
| 618 - 907 AD | Tang |
| 907 - 960 AD | Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms |
| 960 - 1279 AD | Sung |
| 960 - 1127 AD | Northern Sung |
| 1127 - 1279 AD | Southern Sung |
| 1115 - 1234 AD | Chin (Jurchen Tartars) |
| 1279 - 1368 AD | Yuan (Mongol) |
| 1368 - 1644 AD | Ming |
| 1644 - 1912 AD | Ch'ing or Qing (Manchu) |
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