A History of China

Portada
University of California Press, 1969 - 367 páginas
 

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INTRODUCTION THE EARLIEST TIMES
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PREHISTORY I Sources for the earliest history
7
The Peking Man 3 The Palaeolithic
8
The Neolithic
9
The eight principal prehistoric cultures
10
The Yangshao culture
12
The Lungshan culture
15
The first petty States in Shansi
16
THE EPOCH OF THE SECOND
195
Political history of the Five Dynasties
202
Southward expansion
208
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Reforms and Welfare schemes
215
Military collapse
221
3 The HsiHsia State in the north 10381227
224
4 The empire of the Southern Sung dynasty 1127
225

THE SHANG DYNASTY c 16001028 B C
19
Writing and Religion I
22
Transition to feudalism
24
ANTIQUITY
27
THE CHOU DYNASTY c 1028257 B C
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Feudalism in the new empire
30
Fusion of Chou and Shang
32
Limitation of the imperial power
36
Changes in the relative strength of the feudal states
38
Confucius
40
Lao Tzŭ
45
THE CONTENDING STATES 481256 B C
51
Cultural changes
57
Frontier Defence Internal collapse
67
Situation of the Hsiungnu empire its relation to
75
Turkestan policy End of the Hsiungnu empire
86
The pseudosocialistic dictatorship Revolt of the Red
93
Economic situation Rebellion of the Yellow Tur
99
THE EPOCH OF THE FIRST DIVISION
107
The northern State of
113
Struggles for the throne
119
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Sociological analysis of the petty States
132
The Hun kingdom of the Hsia 407431
139
Victory and retreat of Buddhism
145
CONTENTS
147
F The southern empires
152
The LiuSung dynasty A D 420478 and the Southern
159
Cultural achievements of the south
163
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THE EMPIRES OF THE SUI
166
Turkish policy
176
Second blossoming of Tang culture
182
First successful peasant revolt Collapse of the empire
189
Internal situation
226
Cultural situation reasons for the collapse
227
Rapid expansion from northern Korea to the Yangtze
229
Start of the Mongol empire
230
THE PERIOD OF ABSOLUTISM A The Mongol Epoch 12801368
232
Nationality legislation
233
Military position
234
Social situation
235
National rising
238
Cultural
241
B The Ming Epoch 13681644
243
Wars against Mongols and Japanese
244
Social legislation within the existing order
246
Colonization and agricultural developments
248
Commercial and industrial developments
250
Growth of the small gentry
252
Literature art crafts
253
Politics at court
256
Navy Southward expansion
258
Struggles between cliques
259
Risings
262
Machiavellism
263
Foreign relations in the sixteenth century
264
External and internal perils
266
Russia in Manchuria
296
THE REPUBLIC 19121948
303
PRESENTDAY CHINA
320
Notes and References
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