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China: Its History and Culture [NOOK Book]
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“A wonderful job! So lucid, beautfully written, with greatrange and insight. This will set a new standard for shortgeneral histories of China.”
—Michael Gasster,professor emeritus of history at Rutgers University
Newly updated and revised, China: Its History and Culture,Fourth Edition, incorporates the crucial social and economicchanges that have taken place in China over the last decade.Through rich detail and engaging illustrations, the book tracesChina’s history from Neolithic times to the present day.
| Foreword | ||
| 1 | The land and the people of China | 5 |
| 2 | Origins and early history | 11 |
| 3 | The formative period | 22 |
| Zhou dynasty : 1027-221 B.C. | ||
| 4 | Religion and philosophy | 29 |
| 5 | Unification and expansion | 45 |
| Qin dynasty : 221-206 B.C. | ||
| Han dynasty : 206 B.C.-A.D. 221 | ||
| 6 | Outsiders, generals, and eccentrics | 71 |
| The Six Dynasties period : A.D. 222-589 | ||
| 7 | The flowering of Chinese civilization | 81 |
| Sui dynasty : 589-618 | ||
| Tang dynasty : 618-907 | ||
| 8 | The Chinese enter on their modern times | 98 |
| Five Dynasties : 907-960, North China | ||
| Ten Kingdoms : 907-970, South China | ||
| Song dynasty : 960-1126 | ||
| Jin dynasty (Jurchen) : 1126-1234, North China | ||
| Southern Song dynasty : 1127-1279, South China | ||
| 9 | The Mongol interruption | 115 |
| Yuan dynasty : 1280-1368 | ||
| 10 | The restoration and consolidation of Chinese rule | 123 |
| Ming dynasty : 1368-1644 | ||
| 11 | The Manzhou : summit and decline of the empire | 136 |
| Qing dynasty : 1644-1911 | ||
| 12 | The impact of the West in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries | 148 |
| 13 | The Republican revolution, 1900-1949 | 175 |
| 14 | The Communist revolution, 1949-1965 | 201 |
| 15 | The Cultural Revolution and its aftermath, 1966-1978 | 215 |
| 16 | Deng Xiaoping and the reform era, 1978-1992 | 227 |
| 17 | The party, greater China, and the wider world, 1993-2003 | 242 |
| 18 | A changing society | 261 |
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“A wonderful job! So lucid, beautfully written, with greatrange and insight. This will set a new standard for shortgeneral histories of China.”
—Michael Gasster,professor emeritus of history at Rutgers University
Newly updated and revised, China: Its History and Culture,Fourth Edition, incorporates the crucial social and economicchanges that have taken place in China over the last decade.Through rich detail and engaging illustrations, the book tracesChina’s history from Neolithic times to the present day.