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Created page with "== Prehistoric China == The earliest known written records of the history of China date from as early as 1250 BC, from the Shang (c. 1600–1046 BC). Ancient historical texts such as the ''Records of the Grand Historian'' (c. 100 BC) and the ''Bamboo Annals'' (296 BC) describe a Xia dynasty (c. 2070–1600 BC), which had no system of writing on a durable medium, before the Shang. Image:Detail-47441.jpg|thumb|center|An aerial view of the r..."