Contents
Preface to the Enlarged Edition
Preface to the Original Edition
Introduction: Approaches to Understanding China’s History
Part one Rise and Decline of the Imperial Autocracy
1. Origins: The Discoveries of Archaeology
2. The First Unification: Imperial Confucianism
3. Reunification in the Buddhist Age
4. China’s Greatest Age: Northern and Southern Song
5. The Paradox of Song China and Inner Asia
6. Government in the Ming Dynasty
7. The Qing Success Story
Part two Late Imperial China, 1600–1911
8. The Paradox of Growth without Development
9. Frontier Unrest and the Opening of China
10. Rebellion and Restoration
11. Early Modernization and the Decline of Qing Power
12. The Republican Revolution, 1901–1916
Part three The Republic of China, 1912–1949
13. The Quest for a Chinese Civil Society
14. The Nationalist Revolution and the Nanjing Government
15. The Second Coming of the Chinese Communist Party
16. China’s War of Resistance, 1937–1945
17. The Civil War and the Nationalists on Taiwan
Part four The People’s Republic of China
18. Establishing Control of State and Countryside
19. The Great Leap Forward, 1958–1960
20. The Cultural Revolution, 1966–1976
21. The Post-Mao Reform Era
Epilogue: China at the Start of the Twenty-first Century
Note on Romanization and Citation
Suggested Reading
Publisher’s Note
Illustration Credits
Author Index
General Index