A History of ChinaCosimo, Inc., 2005 M11 1 - 380 páginas The lives of emperors, the great battles, this or the other famous deed, matter less to us than the discovery of the great forces that underlie these features and govern the human element. Only when we have knowledge of those forces and counter-forces can we realize the significance of the great personalities who have emerged in China... -from the Introduction A radical new look at the history of the nation that may well shape the course of the 21st century, this significant exploration of China's past breaks with scholarly traditions to approach its subject with a fresh eye, one that relies less on romanticized mythologies of godlike emperors and more on modern archaeological discoveries and new, fluid theories of ethnography and anthropology. First published in 1950, A History of China is still one of the best sources for understanding the culture and peoples who today are increasingly influencing global society. WOLFRAM EBERHARD (1909-1989) was born in Germany traveled extensively in Asia; from 1948 to 1976, he was a professor of sociology at the University of California at Berkeley. Among his many works examining Chinese folklore, fiction, culture, and history are A Dictionary of Chinese Symbols and China's Minorities: Yesterday and Today. |
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Limitation of the imperial power | 36 |
THE CONTENDING STATES 481256 B C | 51 |
Cultural changes | 57 |
THE HAN DYNASTY 206 B C A D 220 | 71 |
Brief feudal reaction Consolidation of the gentry | 77 |
4 The empire of the Southern Sung dynasty 1127 | 225 |
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 |
Turkestan policy End of the Hsiungnu empire | 86 |
The pseudosocialistic dictatorship Revolt of the Red | 93 |
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THE EPOCH OF THE FIRST DIVISION | 107 |
Internal situation in the Chin empire | 115 |
Struggles for the throne | 119 |
317385 | 126 |
Sociological analysis of the petty States | 132 |
The Hun kingdom of the Hsia 407431 | 139 |
Victory and retreat of Buddhism | 145 |
F The southern empires | 152 |
The LiuSung dynasty A D 420478 and the Southern | 159 |
Cultural achievements of the south | 163 |
THE EMPIRES OF THE SUI | 166 |
Reforms and decentralization | 172 |
Buddhism and capitalism | 179 |
The role of the Uighurs Confiscation of the capital of | 186 |
THE EPOCH OF THE SECOND | 195 |
Political history of the Five Dynasties | 202 |
Southward expansion | 208 |
Reforms and Welfare schemes | 215 |
Military collapse | 221 |
3 The HsiHsia State in the north 10381227 | 224 |
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 |
Collision with Japan further Capitulations | 294 |
THE REPUBLIC 19121948 | 303 |
PRESENTDAY CHINA | 320 |
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