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- ISBN: 9780495913238 | 0495913235
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 1/1/2012
This compelling text explores the development of China through its art, religion, literature, and thought as well as through their economic, political, and social history.
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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