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The Heritage of Chinese Civilization

by: Craig, Albert M.

The Heritage of Chinese Civilization

by: Craig, Albert M.

ISBN 13:
9780131346109
ISBN 10:
0131346105
Edition: 2nd
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 01/01/2007
Publisher: Pearson College Div
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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.

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Preface

CHAPTER ONE

Early China

(1)

Origins: The Old and New Stone Ages

(2)

Early Bronze Age: The Shang

(5)

Later Bronze Age: The Western Zhou

(2)

Iron Age: The Eastern Zhou

(3)

Iron Age: The Birth of Chinese Philosophy

(13)

Confucianism

(3)

Daoism

(2)

Legalism

(6)

CHAPTER TWO China's First Empire (221 B.C.-220 A.D.) and Its Aftermath (220-589 A.D.)

(30)

Qin Unification of China

(4)

Former Han Dynasty (206 B.C.-8 A.D.)

(8)

The Dynastic Cycle

(1)

Early Years of the Former Han Dynasty

(1)

Han Wudi

(1)

Xiongnu

(2)

Government During the Former Han

(3)

The Silk Road

(1)

Decline and Usurpation

(1)

Later Han (25-220 A.D.) and Its Aftermath (220-589 A.D.)

(3)

First Century

(1)

Decline During the Second Century

(1)

Aftermath of Empire

(2)

Han Thought and Religion

(10)

Han Confucianism

(1)

History

(1)

Neo-Daoism

(5)

Buddhism

(3)

China's First Empire in Historical Perspective

(4)

CHAPTER THREE High Imperial China (589-1368)

(44)

REESTABLISHMENT OF EMPIRE: SUI (589-618) AND TANG (618-907) DYNASTIES

(16)

The Sui Dynasty

(1)

The Tang Dynasty

(15)

Government

(4)

The Empress Wu

(1)

The Chang'an of Emperor Xuan Zong 712-756)

(1)

The law Empire

(3)

Rebellion and Decline

(3)

Tang Culture

(4)

TRANSITION TO LATE IMPERIAL CHINA: THE SONG DYNASTY (960-1279)

(13)

Agricultural Revolution of the Song: From Serfs to Free Farmers

(1)

Commercial Revolution of the Song

(3)

Emergence of the Yangzi Basin

(1)

New Technology

(1)

Rise of a Money Economy

(1)

Trade

(2)

Government: From Aristocracy to Autocracy

(2)

Song Culture

(6)

Philosophy

(2)

Poetry

(2)

Painting

(1)

CHINA IN THE MONGOL WORLD EMPIRE: THE YUAN DYNASTY (1279-1368)

(8)

Rise of the Mongol Empire

(1)

Mongol Rule in China

(4)

Foreign Contacts and Chinese Culture

(1)

Last Years of the Yuan

(1)

IMPERIAL CHINA IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE

(6)

CHAPTER FOUR Late Imperial China: The Ming (1368-1644) and Qing (1644-1912) Dynasties

101

(30)

Economic Regions

103

(2)

People

105

(1)

China's Third Commercial Revolution

106

(3)

Women and the Commercial Revolution 107

Government

109

(7)

Confucianism

109

(1)

Emperor

110

(1)

Bureaucracy

111

(2)

Gentry

113

(1)

The Pattern of Manchu Rule

114

(2)

Foreign Relations

116

(6)

Ming

116

(3)

Qing

119

(1)

Contacts with the West

120

(2)

Culture

122

(4)

Late Imperial China in Historical Perspective

126

(5)

CHAPTER FIVE Modern China (1839-1949)

131

(32)

The Close of Manchu Rule

133

(10)

The Opium War and Its Aftermath

133

(2)

Rebellions Against the Manchus

135

(3)

Self-Strengthening and Decline (1874-1895)

138

(3)

The Borderlands

141

(2)

From Dynasty to Warlordism (1895-1926)

143

(4)

Cultural and Ideological Ferment: The May Fourth Movement

147

(4)

Nationalist China

151

(8)

The Guomindang Unification of China and the Nanjing Decade (1927-1937)

151

(3)

War and Revolution (1937-1949)

154

(5)

Modern China in Historical Perspective

159

(4)

CHAPTER SIX China, the Last Half Century

163

(28)

Mao's China

164

(6)

Consolidation

164

(2)

The Soviet Model

166

(1)

The Great Leap Forward

166

(2)

The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (1965-1976)

168

(2)

China after Mao

170

(13)

Politics

170

(3)

The Economy

173

(3)

Social Change

176

(4)

China and the World

180

(3)

Taiwan

183

(3)

China, the Outlook

186

(5)

Index

191

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