Chinese (Civ2)

The Chinese civilization is a default civilization in Civilization II.

Color

The Chinese are a teal civilization. A game including the Chinese will not include the Americans, Arabs, or Persians.

Leaders

Main article: Leaders (Civ2)

The default male leader of the Chinese is Mao Tse Tung ("MAO zuh-DONG"), a former way of writing Mao Zedong. Chairman Mao (1893–1976) was a communist revolutionary and ruler who won the Chinese Civil War, restructured Chinese society, and fitfully continued China's modernization. His continuing personality cult includes a famous portrait and the Little Red Book.

The default female leader is Wu Zhao ("WOO JAO"), another name for Wu Zetian ("WOO zuh-TEE-inn"; 624–705), the only officially-recognized empress in Chinese history. She expanded Chinese influence in central Asia and Korea and was a patron of Chinese Buddhism, notably including the Longmen Grottoes.

Chinese leaders use the default titles except under communism. A Chinese comrade is known as a "chairman" (male) or "chairperson" (female).

Personality

The Chinese AI, like the Egyptians', is civilized.

City list

Main article: City (Civ2)

The default Chinese list is a grabbag of pinyin, traditional, and misspelled modern PRC, Taiwanese, North Korean, and colonial cities and neighborhoods. For the most part, the beginning of the list continues the traditional spellings used by the Civ1 Chinese list and most of the additions use pinyin.

1. Beijing (default capital)
2. Shanghai
3. Canton
4. Nanking
5. Tsingtao
6. Xinjian
7. Chengdu
8. Hangchow
9. Tientsin
10. Tatung
11. Macao
12. Anyang
13. Shantung
14. Chinan
15. Kaifeng
16. Ningpo
17. Paoting
18. Yangchow
19. Shenyang
20. Qingdao
21. Wuchang
22. Chengsha
23. Fuzhou
24. Haikou
25. Kunming
26. Guiyang
27. Lanzhou
28. Taiyuan
29. Jinan
30. Lhasa
31. Harbin
32. Pyongyang
33. Jilin
34. Taipei
35. Weihai
36. Dalian
37. Hefei
38. Suzhou
39. Zhanjiang
40. Tongren
41. Chonqing
42. Xian
43. Yinchuan
44. Hengyang
45. Chengde
46. Lushun
47. Yantai
48. Tonghua
49. Fuyu
50. Linqing
51. Wuxi
52. Wenzhou
53. Kowloon
54. Taichung

When this list is completed, the game continues with the names in the extra cities list. When that list is completed, the game cycles back to the top of this list with "Beijing" again.

Khanbaliq, which appears as Khanbalyk in the Mongol city list, was located within present-day Beijing. Quinsay, which also appears in the Mongol list, was Marco Polo's scribe's misspelling of Xingzai, a former name of Hangzhou (Hangchow on this list). Tsingtao and Qingdao are the same name of the city in different romanizations; the same thing occurs with Chinan and Jinan. At the time of Civilization II’s 1996 release, Macao had not yet been transferred from Portuguese control. Although Hong Kong had not been handed over from British control either, its neighborhood Kowloon appears on the list. Wuchang has been a district of Wuhan since 1949; Lushun is a misspelling of Lüshunkou, a distict of Dalian, also included on the list. Shantung is a former spelling of Shandong Province, not a city. Xinjian is either a misspelling of the Xinjiang Autonomous Region or a minor suburb of Nanchang, omitted from the list. Chongqing is misspelled Chonqing; Changsha is misspelled Chengsha; Xi'an ("SHEE-ahn") is misspelled Xian ("SHYEN").

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