1. Late-Traditional China

During the Yuan dynasty, China had fifteen provinces . In 1664 the provinces of Hubei and Hunan , Jiangsu and Anhui , Shaanxi and Gansu were created from larger units, Xinjiang became a province in 1882, and Taiwan was separated from Fujian in 1885. In 1907 Manchuria was transformed into the three northeastern provinces. Beijing and the secondary capital of Shengjing (Shenyang ), as well as Manchuria until 1907, were special administrat…