China A History

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CONTENTS Acknowledgments About the Chinese Characters List of Maps Introduction: THE LAY OF THE LAND AND THE ORIGINS OF THE CHINESE PEOPLE The Lay of the Land People and Provinces Villages, Towns, and Cities The Origins of the Chinese People Neolithic Cultures and the Beginnings of Chinese Civilization Multiple Centers of Culture Yangshao Culture Longshan Culture Conclusion Notes ÿþP Chapter 1: From Myth to History Chapter 2: The Age of Fighting and Philosophy Chapter 3: From Feudal States to Bureaucratic Empire Chapter 4: The Decline and Fall of Eastern Civilization Part II: Cultural Interactions and Transformation, 220-1368 Chapter 5: The Age of Warriors and Buddhists Chapter 6: A Multi-Ethnic Empire Chapter 7: Competing Suns in Heaven Chapter 8: China in the Mongol Empire Part III: A New Confucian Empire, 1368-1911 Chapter 9: A Model Government For the Ages Chapter 10: Wealth and Instability Chapter 11: A Manchu Empire Chapter 12: The Qing Dynasty's 19th-Century Crises Part IV: The Road to Wealth and Power, 1911-Present Chapter 13: Struggling to Build a Nation The 1911 Revolution Yuan Shikai and the Warlords The New Culture Movement ÿþC The Communist Party, the Guomindang, and the First United Front The Political Parties, the Masses, and the May Thirtieth Movement Chapter 14: Years of Turmoil The Northern Expedition The Nanjing Decade ÿþT Japanese Imperialism in the Nanjing Decade Nationalists and Communists in the War of Resistance Against Japan Art and Literature Go to War ÿþA The Civil War, 1945-49 Notes Chapter 15: The People's Republic of China The Communist Party, the Chinese State, and Mass Movements ÿþR ÿþB ÿþR From Recovery to Cultural Revolution The Red Guard Generation: From Revolution to Disillusion The Legacy of the Mao Era Notes Chapter 16: The March Toward Wealth and Power The Reformists Take Power ÿþB The Student and Worker Demonstrations of 1989 Deepening Reform, Transforming Everyday Life The Trouble with Reform China on the Global Stage Conclusion Notes Further Readings Text and Illustration Credits Index Cover China A History by Harold Miles Tanner (z-lib.org)