A History of China

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Cosimo, 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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PREHISTORY
7
Writing and Religion
22
THE CHOU DYNASTY c 1028257 B C
29
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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99
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
32
359
115
363
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