Historical C-Drama Chronology sorted by Historical Periods

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

MODERN - early years of the Republic of China .

MODERN - Republic of China .

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

MODERN - Cultural Revolution <-> early 21st century (both from the PRC period) .

MODERN - Cultural Revolution <-> early 21st century (both from the PRC period) .

ANCIENT - Chu state (from the Spring and Autumn period) <-> probably Warring States period .

PRIMORDIAL <-> ANCIENT - Creation out of Primordial Chaos <-> probably during the most legendary part of the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors (from the Yu dynasty period) .

IMPERIAL - probably sometime during the Ming dynasty .

IMPERIAL - probably sometime during the Ming dynasty .

IMPERIAL - probably sometime during the Ming dynasty .

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

PRIMORDIAL <-> ANCIENT <-> IMPERIAL - Creation by Pangu <-> Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors (from the Yu dynasty period) <-> Zhou dynasty <-> Tang dynasty .

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

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

PRIMORDIAL <-> ANCIENT - Primordial Chaos <-> Creation by Pangu <-> probably Shang dynasty .

ANCIENT - Shang dynasty .

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

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

IMPERIAL - probably Tang dynasty* .

* The aesthetics and the style resemble the Tang representative ones very much.

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

IMPERIAL - probably Southern Liang dynasty (from the Northern and Southern Dynasties period) .

ANCIENT - Jin state (during the late Spring and Autumn and the early Warring States periods) .

IMPERIAL - Western Jin dynasty .

MODERN - Republic of China .

MODERN - sometime between the Chinese Civil War and the Second Sino-Japanese War (both from the Chinese Republican period) .

IMPERIAL <-> MODERN - late Qing dynasty <-> early Republic of China .

IMPERIAL - Western Jin dynasty .

IMPERIAL - Ming dynasty .

MODERN - Republic of China <-> early People's Republic of China <-> late 20th century (from the PRC period) .

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

IMPERIAL - Ming dynasty .

MODERN - Republic of China .

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

MODERN - Cultural Revolution (from the PRC period) .

MODERN - Republic of China .

MODERN - Republic of China .

MODERN - early People's Republic of China .

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

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

IMPERIAL - Chu-Han Contention <-> Western Han dynasty, and Changsha and Nanyue kingdoms .

MODERN - Republic of China .

IMPERIAL - Liu Song , Northern Qi (from the Northern and Southern Dynasties period), and Southern Qing* dynasties .

* Southern Qing is a fictional dynasty.

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

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

IMPERIAL - Song dynasty .

MODERN - by the end of the Republic of China .

IMPERIAL <-> MODERN - Qin <-> Han <-> Song <-> Qing dynasties <-> early People's Republic of China <-> early 21st century (from the PRC period) .

IMPERIAL - Tang dynasty .

IMPERIAL - Liu Song , Northern Qi (from the Northern and Southern Dynasties period), and Southern Qing* dynasties .

* Southern Qing is a fictional dynasty.

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

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

MODERN - sometime between the Chinese Civil War and the Second Sino-Japanese War (both from the Chinese Republican period) .

MODERN - sometime between the Chinese Civil War and the Second Sino-Japanese War (both from the Chinese Republican period) .

ANCIENT - Qin and Zhao states (possibly from sometime between the Zhou dynasty or the Spring and Autumn or the Warring States periods) .

MODERN - Republic of China .

IMPERIAL - Ming dynasty .

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

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

IMPERIAL - Northern Song dynasty .

IMPERIAL - final years of the Ming dynasty .

IMPERIAL - Northern Yan (from the Sixteen Kingdoms period) .

IMPERIAL - possibly sometime between the Former Yan, the Later Yan, the Western Yan, or the Southern Yan kingdoms (all from the Sixteen Kingdoms period) .

MODERN - Republic of China .

MODERN - sometime between the Chinese Civil War and the Second Sino-Japanese War (both from the Chinese Republican period) .

ANCIENT - Wei and Chu states (from the Spring and Autumn period) .

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

IMPERIAL - Western Liang dynasty (from the Northern and Southern Dynasties period) .

WARNING

What I've got from here downwards are unreleased dramas upon whose information I depend to help me classify them or redistribute to other lists, if it happens to be the case. Thank you for your understanding. ;)