The name "Han" comes from the Han Dynasty that united China as one country.

Other than the warlord-controlled central government, two primary forces aimed to unite China under their ideology.

The Sui Dynasty united China in 589 and did not use prefecture as a unit of administration.

The Nationalists, led by Chiang Kai-shek, united China under one government.

For fifty years this has been my dream-a united China.

After dealing the Rouran threat to his northern flank, he engaged in a war to unite northern China.

Following several hundred years of unrest, the Sui Dynasty united China again in 582.

To unite China under one central government, the southern armies needed to defeat the northern armies.

Throughout this period, competing states, seeking to war with one another and unite China as a single country, patronized philosophers, scholars, and teachers.

Mao hoped to establish himself as the leader of China's communist party in order to unite China and vanquish the Japanese.