China: A History
By Harold M. Tanner
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Introduction: The Lay of the Land and the Origins of the Chinese People
PART I –THE EARLY EMPIRE: BUILDING INSTITUTIONS AND IDENTITY, 2070(?) BCE–220 CE
Chapter 1: From Myth to History: The Beginnings of the Chinese State and Culture in the Xia, Shang, and Western Zhou Dynasties
Chapter 2: The Age of Fighting and Philosophy: The Eastern Zhou Dynasty
Chapter 3: From Feudal States to Bureaucratic Empire: The Qin and Western Han Dynasties
Chapter 4: The Decline and Fall of Eastern Civilization: The Xin and Eastern Han Dynasties
PART II – CULTURAL INTERACTION AND TRANSFORMATION, 220–1368
Chapter 5: The Age of Warriors and Buddhists: The Three Kingdoms, Western Jin, and the Period of North-South Division
Chapter 6: A Multi-Ethnic Empire: The Sui and Tang Dynasties
Chapter 7: Competing Suns in Heaven: The Song and Its Neighbors
Chapter 8: China in the Mongol Empire: The Yuan Dynasty
PART III – A NEW CONFUCIAN EMPIRE, 1368–1911
Chapter 9: A Model Government for the Ages: The Early to Mid-Ming Dynasty
Chapter 10: Wealth and Instability: The Mid- and Late Ming
Chapter 11: A Manchu Empire: The Qing Dynasty to 1799
Chapter 12: The Qing Dynasty's 19th-Century Crises
PART IV – THE ROAD TO WEALTH AND POWER, 1911–Present
Chapter 13: Struggling to Build a Nation: The 1911 Revolution and the Early Republic, 1912–26
Chapter 14: Years of Turmoil: China Under Chiang Kai-shek's Guomindang Government
Chapter 15: The People's Republic of China: The Mao Era
Chapter 16: The March Toward Wealth and Power
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