A History of China
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Authors: Morris Rossabi
Contents
SERIES EDITOR’S ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
PART I: China among “Barbarians”
[1] EARLY HISTORY, TO 1027 BCE
AGRICULTURAL REVOLUTION IN THE NEOLITHIC ERA
THE SHANG AND THE ORIGINS OF CHINESE CIVILIZATION
RITUAL OBJECTS AS HISTORICAL SOURCES
[2] CLASSICAL CHINA, 1027–256 BCE
POLITICAL INSTABILITY IN THE EASTERN ZHOU
TRANSFORMATIONS IN THE ECONOMY
BOOK OF ODES AND BOOK OF DOCUMENTS
[3] THE FIRST CHINESE EMPIRES, 221 BCE–220 CE
EMPEROR WU’S DOMESTIC POLICIES AND THEIR RAMIFICATIONS
WANG MANG: REFORMER OR USURPER?
RESTORATION OF A WEAKER HAN DYNASTY
SPIRITUAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL DEVELOPMENTS IN THE HAN
[4] CHAOS AND RELIGIOUS AND POLITICAL RESPONSES, 220–581
SPIRITUAL DEVELOPMENTS, POST-HAN
LITERATURE, SCIENCE, AND THE ARTS IN A PERIOD OF DIVISION
[5] RESTORATION OF EMPIRE UNDER SUI AND TANG, 581–907
SUI: FIRST STEP IN RESTORATION
TAIZONG: THE GREATEST TANG EMPEROR
IRREGULAR SUCCESSIONS AND THE EMPRESS WU
[6] POST-TANG SOCIETY AND THE GLORIOUS SONG, 907–1279
FIVE DYNASTIES AND TEN KINGDOMS
NEO-CONFUCIANISM: A NEW PHILOSOPHY
THE KHITANS AND THE LIAO DYNASTY
PRESERVATION OF KHITAN IDENTITY
XIA AND JIN: TWO FOREIGN DYNASTIES
SOUTHERN SONG ECONOMIC AND CULTURAL SOPHISTICATION AND POLITICAL INSTABILITY
PART III: China and the Mongol World
[7] MONGOL RULE IN CHINA, 1234–1368
EXPANSION AND EARLY RULE OF EMPIRE
SORGHAGHTANI BEKI, MÖNGKE, AND KHUBILAI
MULTIETHNIC AND MULTIRELIGIOUS CHINA
[8] MING: ISOLATIONISM AND INVOLVEMENT IN THE WORLD, 1368–1644
NEO-CONFUCIANISM: SCHOOL OF THE MIND
SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT AND MATERIAL CULTURE
VIOLENCE IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY
PART IV: China in Global History
[9] EARLY QING: A MANCHU DYNASTY, 1644–1860
KANGXI AND THE HEIGHT OF THE QING
EXPLANATIONS FOR THE DECLINE OF THE QING
NIAN AND OTHER MINOR REBELLIONS
DIFFERING COURT RESPONSES TO CHALLENGES
ANTIFOREIGN ACTS AND FOREIGN REACTIONS
SCRAMBLE FOR CONCESSIONS AND US RESPONSE
CHINA HUMILIATED AND THE REFORMERS
[11] THE REPUBLICAN PERIOD, 1911–1949
THE 1911 REVOLUTION AND ITS AFTERMATH
THE MAY FOURTH MOVEMENT AND INTELLECTUALS IN THE POST-FIRST WORLD WAR PERIOD
THE PACIFIC WAR, THE COMMUNISTS, AND THE GUOMINDANG
[12] THE COMMUNIST ERA IN CHINA, 1949 ONWARDS
EARLY PACIFICATION OF BORDER AREAS
GREAT PROLETARIAN CULTURAL REVOLUTION
DRAMATIC CHANGES AND MODERNIZATION
TIANANMEN DISTURBANCE OF 1989 AND ITS AFTERMATH
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Rossabi, Morris.
A history of China / Morris Rossabi.
pages cm. – (The Blackwell history of the world)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-55786-078-1 (hardback : alk. paper) – ISBN 978-1-57718-113-2 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1. China–History. I. Title.
DS735.R68 2014
951–dc23
2013006410
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