Historical C-Drama Chronology sorted by Historical Periods

MODERN - early 21st <-> late 20th centuries (both from the PRC period) .

IMPERIAL - Qing dynasty .

IMPERIAL - probably during the Tang dynasty .

IMPERIAL <-> MODERN - Song dynasty <-> 21st century (from the PRC period) <-> Song dynasty .

MODERN - People's Republic of China <-> Republic of China .

MODERN - final years of the 20th <-> 21st <-> final years of the 20th <-> 21st centuries (all from the PRC period) .

MODERN - Republic of China .

IMPERIAL - probably* Yan vassal state (from the Three Kingdoms period) .

* That's the existing Yan state during 259, as the drama suggests.

IMPERIAL - probably sometime among the turmoils of the Three Kingdoms period, the Jin dynasty, the Sixteen Kingdoms and the Northern and Southern Dynasties periods .

MODERN - late 20th <-> early 21st <-> late 20th centuries (from the PRC period) .

MODERN - late 20th century (from the PRC period) .

IMPERIAL - possibly* Ming dynasty .

* Although not because of the aesthetics, the male lead is an emperor who lives in the Forbidden City, where only Ming and Qing dynasties lived, and as Qing emperors had a specific hair, it should be more of a Ming drama...

IMPERIAL - possibly* Song dynasty .

* Because of its aesthetics and clothing.

MODERN - early People's Republic of China .

MODERN - early 21st century (from the PRC period) .

MODERN - final years of the Republic of China.

MODERN - Republic of China .

MODERN - early 21st century (from the PRC period) .

MODERN - Republic of China .

MODERN - early years of the 21st century (from the PRC period) .

IMPERIAL - Tang dynasty .

IMPERIAL - Han dynasty .

ANCIENT - Jinsha civilization and Ancient Shu kingdom (during the Bronze Age period) .

ANCIENT - Xia dynasty .

MODERN - late 20th century (from the PRC period) .

IMPERIAL - Tang dynasty .

IMPERIAL - Ye* dynasty .

* Although disguised by a fictional name, this dynasty comprises elements from Northern Qi, Southern Qi, and Northern Wei (from the Northern and Southern Dynasties period), Song, and Ming dynasties, being it probably more of a Northern Qi's drama than any of the others.

IMPERIAL - Northern Song dynasty .

MODERN - Republic of China .

MODERN - Republic of China .

MODERN - early Republic of China .

IMPERIAL - Qing dynasty .

IMPERIAL - Qing dynasty .

IMPERIAL - Northern Yuan <-> early Ming dynasties .

MODERN - final years of the 20th century (from the PRC period) .

MODERN - early 21st century (from the PRC period) .

IMPERIAL - middle Ming dynasty .

MODERN - final years of the 20th century (from the PRC period) .

MODERN - Republic of China .

MODERN - final years of the Republic of China .

MODERN - end of the 20th <-> beginning of the 21st centuries (from the PRC period) .

MODERN - late Chinese Civil War (from the Chinese Republican period) .

IMPERIAL - late Qing dynasty .

IMPERIAL - Mu'an nation, Yuanding dynasty* .

* However fictional these names may be, this drama includes historical data from dynasties, like Ming, such as the Zhaosheng dowager title, and Song, e.g., the ruling house of Zhao, the aesthetics, and the minister's clothing, being it, thus, more of a Song drama than that of a Ming's.

MODERN - towards the end of the Second Sino-Japanese War (from the Chinese Republican period) .

MODERN - early years of the 21st century (from the PRC period) .

MODERN - Republic of China .

MODERN - Republic of China .

MODERN - Republic of China .

IMPERIAL - Qing dynasty .

MODERN - early years of the 21st <-> final years of the 20th <-> early years of the 21st centuries (from the PRC period) <-> early Republic of China .

MODERN - early years of the Republic of China .

MODERN - early Republic of China .

MODERN <-> IMPERIAL - 21st century (from the PRC period) <-> Han dynasty .