China : a history /
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| Language: | English |
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Indianapolis :
Hackett Publishing Company,
[2009]
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Table of Contents:
- Part I. Creation of the Middle Kingdom
- From myth to history: the beginnings of the Chinese Middle Kingdom in the Xia, Shang, and Western Zhou dynasties
- The age of fighting and philosophy: the Eastern Zhou dynasty
- From feudal states to bureaucratic empire: Qin and Western Han dynasties
- The decline and fall of eastern civilizations: the Xin and Eastern Han dynasties
- Part II. The Middle Kingdom transformed
- The age of Buddhists and warriors: the Three Kingdoms, Western Jin, and the period of north-south division
- A multi-ethnic empire: the Sui and Tang dynasties
- Competing suns in heaven: the Song and its neighbors
- China in the Mongol empire: the Yuan dynasty
- Part III. A new Confucian empire
- A model government for the ages: the early to mid-Ming dynasty
- Wealth and instability: the mid and late Ming dynasty
- A Manchu empire: the Qing dynasty to 1799
- The Qing dynasty's nineteenth century crises
- Part IV. The road to wealth and power
- Struggling to build a nation: the 1911 revolution and the early Republic, 1912-1926
- Years of turmoil: China under Jiang Jieshi's Guomindang government
- The People's Republic of China: the Mao era
- The march toward wealth and power.