Chinese (Civ5)

The Chinese people represent a civilization in Civilization V.
* Symbol: Head of a Chinese dragon
* Musical Theme: Gao Shan Liu Shui (Mandarin for Tall Mountains and Flowing Water; composed by Michael Curran, orchestrated by Geoff Knorr)
* Music Set: Asian
* Architecture: Asian
* Spy Names: Li, Chen, Zhang, Liu, Yang, Huang, Zhao, Wu, Zhou, Sun
* Preferred Religion: Taoism
* Preferred Ideology: Order
== Strategy ==
The Chinese are one of the more versatile civilizations, with two main paths to victory open to them.
* The Path of War: Their unique ability is to produce Great Generals faster, and derive double combat bonus from them. This makes for a generally more powerful army almost from the start of the game. In addition, their unique building, the Paper Maker, provides additional early on, which is a precious and easy way of maintaining a larger army. The Chu-Ko-Nu unit in the Medieval Era comes as a deadly bonus with its double-attack ability. Further expand the combat prowess of the Chinese by adopting Honor, and you'll get a terrifying war machine to lead you to a domination victory!
* The Path of Science: Their unique building, the Paper Maker, provides additional , which is a great incentive to build it ASAP in every city you found. This kick-starts your technological advancement, and although it doesn't offer you direct scientific advantages, you could choose to enhance it via the standard ways. Research Writing as soon as possible, and where possible, rush to build the Great Library to further enhance production. From there on, follow the regular path to a science victory.
** Successfully building the Great Library will lead you to an early tech advantage. This gives you the potential time in the midgame to claim territory and expand, even if you don't go for a full domination victory.
** Social policy choice is flexible. With Tradition, the does not especially need the focus, but the empire will benefit overall from a large for boosting. Liberty, while more war- and expansion-oriented, can be used peacefully if fertile land is available, and its finishing bonus can be used to receive a Great Scientist, which can build an Academy to speed up China's acquisition of new technologies.
== Civilopedia entry ==
== Cities ==
== Trivia ==
* China's unique ability is a reference to The Art of War, a famous treatise by Sun Tzu.
== Gallery ==
File:China map (Civ5).png|Map of Chinese Empire
== Related achievements ==
== See also ==
* Jin (Civ5)
* Chinese in other games
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