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The Heritage of Chinese Civilization

ISBN: 9780135766200 | 0135766206
Edition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Pub. Date: 1/1/2001

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SummaryTable of Contents
For Introduction to Chinese History and Introduction to East Asia courses. A clear and manageable single volume narrative covering all the major periods of Chinese history. The text is presented chronologically and features brief principle interpretations to provide an accessible introductory overview of an expansive subject area.
A single volume, clear and manageable narrative covering all the major periods of Chinese history. The text is presented chronologically and features brief principle interpretations to pr... MORE
Maps
xi
Documentsxiii
Prefacexv
Early China
3(26)
... MORE
Origins: The Old and New Stone Ages
4(2)
Early Bronze Age: The Shang
6(4)
Later Bronze Age: The Western Chou
10(2)
Iron Age: The Eastern Chou
12(2)
Iron Age: The Birth of Chinese Philosophy
14(15)
Confucianism
17(4)
Taoism
21(2)
Legalism
23(6)
China's First Empire (221 B.C.E.=220 C.E.) and Its Aftermath
29(26)
Ch'in Unification of China
30(3)
Former Han Dynasty (203 B.C.E.-8 C.E.)
33(7)
The Dynastic Cycle
33(1)
Early Years of the Former Han Dynasty
33(1)
Han Wu Ti
34(2)
Government During the Former Han
36(3)
Decline and Usurpation
39(1)
Later Han (25-220 C.E.) and Its Aftermath
40(3)
First Century
40(1)
Decline During the Second Century
40(1)
Aftermath of Empire
41(2)
Han Thought and Religion
43(7)
Han Confucianism
43(1)
History
44(1)
Neo-Taoism
45(4)
Buddhism
49(1)
China's First Empire in Historical Perspective
50(5)
Imperial China (589-1368)
55(40)
Reestablishment of Empire: SUI (589-618) and T'ang (618-907) Dynasties
56(1)
The Sui Dynasty
57(1)
The T'ang Dynasty
57(13)
Government
57(3)
The Empress Wu
60(1)
The Ch'Ang-an of Emperor Hsuan-tsung
60(1)
The T'ang Empire
61(2)
Rebellion and Decline
63(2)
T'ang Culture
65(5)
Transition to Late Imperial China: The Sung Dynasty (960-1279)
70(1)
Agricultural Revolution of the Sung: From Serfs to Free Farmers
71(1)
Commercial Revolution of the Sung
72(3)
Emergence of the Yangtze Basin
72(1)
New Technology
72(1)
Rise of a Money Economy
73(1)
Trade
73(2)
Government: From Aristocracy to Autocracy
75(2)
Sung Culture
77(4)
Philosophy
77(1)
Poetry
78(2)
Painting
80(1)
China in the Mongol World Empire: The Yuan Dynasty (1279-1368)
81(1)
Rise of the Mongol Empire
82(2)
Mongol Rule in China
84(4)
Foreign Contacts and Chinese Culture
88(1)
Last Years of the Yuan
89(1)
Imperial China in Historical Perspective
90(5)
Late Imperial China: The Ming (1368-1644) and Ch'ing (1644-1912) Dynasties
95(28)
Land and People
97(1)
China's Third Commercial Revolution
98(3)
Women and the Commercial Revolution
99(2)
Political System
101(7)
The Role of Confucianism
102(1)
The Role of Emperor
102(2)
The Role of Bureaucracy
104(1)
The Role of Gentry
105(1)
The Pattern of Manchu Rule
106(2)
Foreign Relations
108(5)
Ming
108(2)
Ch'ing
110(1)
Contacts with the West
111(2)
Culture
113(5)
Late Imperial China in Historical Perspective
118(5)
Modern China (1839-1949)
123(32)
The Close of Manchu Rule
125(10)
The Opium War and Its Aftermath
125(3)
Rebellions Against the Manchus
128(2)
Self-Strengthening and Decline (1874-1895)
130(3)
The Borderlands
133(2)
From Dynasty to Warlordism (1895-1926)
135(4)
Cultural and Ideological Ferment: The May Fourth Movement
139(4)
Nationalist China
143(7)
Kuomintang Unification of China and the Nanking Decade (1927-1937)
143(3)
War and Revolution (1937-1949)
146(4)
Modern China in Historical Perspective
150(5)
China, the Last Half Century
155(24)
Mao's China
156(6)
Consolidation
156(2)
The Soviet Model
158(1)
The Great Leap Forward
158(2)
The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (1965-1976)
160(2)
China After Mao
162(8)
Political Developments
162(2)
Economic Growth
164(2)
Social Change
166(2)
China's Relations with the World
168(2)
Taiwan
170(3)
China, the Outlook
173(6)
Index179

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