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This compelling text explores the development of China through its art, religion, literature, and thought as well as through its economic, political, and social history. The author team combines strong research with extensive classroom teaching experience to offer a clear, consistent, and highly readable text that is accessible to students with no previous knowledge of the history of China.

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Preface	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xiv
About the Authors	p. xv
The Classical Civilization of China	p. 1
"China" in Antiquity	p. 2
The Neolithic Age	p. 3
The Rise of the Bronze Age	p. 6
Erlitou and Xia	p. 7
The Shang	p. 7
The Origins of Chinese Writing	p. 8
Oracle Bones	p. 9
Bronze Vessels	p. 13
Other Bronze Age Civilizations	p. 14
The Western Zhou Dynasty	p. 16
The Odes	p. 19
Turbulent Times and Classical Thought	p. 23
The Spring and Autumn Period	p. 24
The Warring States Period	p. 26
"The Hundred Schools"	p. 31
The Analects	p. 31
Mozi	p. 33
Mencius	p. 36
Xunzi	p. 38
Laozi and Zhuangzi	p. 40
Han Feizi	p. 43
The Early Imperial Period	p. 46
The Qin	p. 47
Sources and Historiographical Problems	p. 47
Reappraisals	p. 50
The Han	p. 52
The Formative Years	p. 52
The Quality of Han Rule	p. 54
The Xiongnu and Other Neighboring Peoples	p. 55
Intellectual Movements	p. 57
Poetry	p. 60
Gender	p. 61
Changes in Political Economy during the Han Period	p. 65
The Fall of the Han	p. 72
China in a Buddhist Age	p. 75
The Fundamentals of Buddhism	p. 76
China during the Period of Disunity	p. 81
A World in Disarray	p. 82
China Divided	p. 84
The Northern Wei (386-534)	p. 84
Buddhism in the North	p. 86
Daoism-The Religion	p. 89
The South	p. 91
Poetry	p. 92
Calligraphy	p. 93
Painting	p. 95
Buddhism in the South	p. 96
China on the Eve of Reunification	p. 97
The Cosmopolitan Civilization of the Sui and Tang: 581-907	p. 99
The Sui (581-617)	p. 100
The Tang: Establishment and Consolidation	p. 101
Gaozong and Empress Wu	p. 105
High Tang	p. 107
City Life in the Capital Chang'an	p. 108
The Flourishing of Buddhism	p. 111
Institutionally	p. 111
Aesthetically	p. 112
Intellectually	p. 113
Pure Land and Chan	p. 114
The Hungry Ghost Festival	p. 115
Daoism	p. 116
The Rebellion of An Lushan (755-763)	p. 116
Li Bai and Du Fu	p. 118
Late Tang	p. 121
Late Tang Poetry and Culture	p. 122
Collapse of the Dynasty	p. 124
Late Imperial/Early Modern Period	p. 127
China during the Song: 960-1279	p. 129
The Founding	p. 130
The New Elite	p. 130
The Examination System	p. 132
The Northern Song (960-1127)	p. 133
Government and Politics	p. 134
Wang Anshi	p. 136
The Economy	p. 138
The Religious Scene	p. 141
The Confucian Revival	p. 144
Poetry and Painting	p. 144
The Southern Song (1127-1279)	p. 148
Southern Song Cities and Commerce	p. 148
Literary and Visual Arts	p. 150
"Neo-Confucianism"	p. 152
Values and Gender	p. 155
The End	p. 157
The Mongol Empire and the Yuan Dynasty	p. 159
Chinggis Khan: Founding of the Mongol Empire	p. 160
China under the Mongols: The Early Years (1211-1260)	p. 163
Kublai Khan and the Early Yuan	p. 165
The Yuan Continued (1294-1355)	p. 167
The Economy	p. 168
Society	p. 169
Religion	p. 169
Cultural and Intellectual Life	p. 170
"Northern" Drama	p. 172
Painting	p. 175
Rebellions and Disintegration	p. 179
The Ming Dynasty: 1368-1644	p. 181
The Early Ming (1368-1424)	p. 182
Maritime Expeditions (1405-1433)	p. 185
The Early Middle Period (1425-1505)	p. 186
The Later Middle Period (1506-1590)	p. 188
Economy and Society	p. 190
Literacy and Literature	p. 192
The Novel	p. 193
Drama	p. 194
Painting	p. 195
Ming Thought-Wang Yangming	p. 198
Religion	p. 199
Ming Thought after Wang Yangming	p. 200
Dong Qichang and Late Ming Painting	p. 202
Late Ming Government (1590-1644)	p. 202
East Asia and Modern Europe: First Encounters	p. 208
The Portuguese in East Asia	p. 209
The Jesuits in Japan	p. 211
The Impact of Other Europeans	p. 213
The "Closing" of Japan	p. 214
The Jesuits in China	p. 216
The Rites Controversy	p. 218
The Decline of Christianity in China	p. 219
Trade with the West and the Canton System	p. 221
The Qing Dynasty	p. 223
The Founding of the Qing	p. 224
Early Qing Thinkers and Painters	p. 227
The Reign of Kangxi	p. 230
Yongzheng	p. 231
Qianlong	p. 232
Eighteenth-Century Governance	p. 233
Eighteenth-Century Literati Culture	p. 234
Fiction	p. 236
A Buoyant Economy	p. 239
Social Change	p. 240
Ecology	p. 243
Dynastic Decline	p. 243
China in the Modern World	p. 245
Internal Crises and Western Intrusion	p. 247
The Opium War and Taiping Rebellion	p. 248
The Opium War (1839-1841) and Its Causes	p. 248
The Treaty of Nanjing and the Treaty System	p. 253
Internal Crisis	p. 255
The Taiping Rebellion (1850-1864)	p. 256
Zeng Guofan and the Defeat of the Taipings	p. 258
China and the World from the Treaty of Nanjing to the End of the Taipings	p. 260
1870-1894	p. 261
The Post-Taiping Revival	p. 262
Self-Strengthening-The First Phase	p. 262
Self-Strengthening-The Theory	p. 264
The Empress Dowager and the Government	p. 265
Education	p. 267
Economic Self-Strengthening	p. 268
The Traditional Economic Sector	p. 269
Missionary Efforts and Christian Influences	p. 270
Old and New Wine in Old Bottles	p. 272
Foreign Relations	p. 274
Continued Pressures	p. 274
Vietnam and the Sino-French War of 1884-1885	p. 274
China: Endings and Beginnings, 1894-1927	p. 277
The Last Years of the Last Dynasty	p. 278
The New Reformers	p. 278
The Scramble for Concessions	p. 280
The Boxer Rising	p. 281
Winds of Change	p. 282
Stirrings of Protest and Revolution	p. 283
Eleventh-Hour Reform	p. 284
The Revolution of 1911	p. 285
From Yuan Shikai to Chiang Kai-shek (Jiang Jieshi)	p. 286
Yuan Shikai	p. 286
The Warlord Era	p. 288
Intellectual Ferment	p. 289
Intellectual Alternatives	p. 290
Cultural Alternatives	p. 291
Marxism in China: The Early Years	p. 294
The GMD and Sun Yat-Sen (1913-1923)	p. 295
GMD and CCP Cooperation (1923-1927)	p. 296
The Break	p. 298
Establishment of the Nationalist Government	p. 299
Building a New China	p. 301
China under the Nationalists	p. 302
China: The Nanjing Decade-An Uneasy Peace	p. 303
China: The Nanjing Decade-Domestic Policies	p. 303
The Chinese Communists (1927-1934)	p. 306
The Long March	p. 307
United Front and War	p. 309
Expansion of the War into a Pacific War	p. 312
The Course of the War	p. 313
China at War	p. 314
Japan at War	p. 317
The End of World War II	p. 318
Taiwan	p. 318
China: Civil War and Communist Triumph (1946-1949)	p. 321
China under Mao: 1949-1976	p. 325
Consolidation and Construction Soviet Style, 1949-1958	p. 326
Government and Politics	p. 326
Foreign Relations and the Korean War	p. 327
Economic Policies	p. 328
Thought Reform and Intellectuals	p. 330
The Revolution Continued, 1958-1976	p. 332
The Great Leap Forward and the Great Famine	p. 333
The Sino-Soviet Split	p. 335
Domestic Politics, 1961-1965	p. 338
The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution: The Radical Phase, 1966-1969	p. 339
The Winding Down, 1969-1976	p. 342
The Chinese World since Mao 3	p. 47
Deng Xiaoping and the Four Modernizations	p. 348
The Four Cardinal Principles	p. 350
Intellectual Life and the Arts in the 1980s	p. 351
Tiananmen	p. 353
State, Economy, and Society after 1989	p. 354
The Environment	p. 357
The Revival of Religion	p. 359
Foreign Relations and Hong Kong	p. 360
Intellectuals and Artists after 1989	p. 362
Taiwan	p. 368
Afterword	p. 373
International Tensions	p. 374
Economic Globalization	p. 375
Contending Trends	p. 376
Cultural Globalization	p. 377
Appendix: Suggestions for Further Study	p. 380
Notes	p. 395
Index	p. 411
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