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Contents
INTRODUCTION THE EARLIEST TIMES | 1 |
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 |
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 |
19 | 165 |
THE EMPIRES OF THE SUI | 166 |
B The Tang dynasty A D 618906 | 172 |
Buddhism and capitalism | 179 |
THE SHANG DYNASTY c 16001028 B C | 19 |
Writing and Religion | 22 |
Transition to feudalism | 24 |
ANTIQUITY | 27 |
THE CHOU DYNASTY c 1028257 B C | 29 |
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 | 44 |
Lao Tzŭ 7 | 45 |
THE CONTENDING STATES 481256 B C | 51 |
Cultural changes | 57 |
THE HAN DYNASTY 206 B C A D 220 | 71 |
9 | 84 |
Economic situation Rebellion of the Yellow Tur | 99 |
10 | 103 |
THE EPOCH OF THE FIRST DIVISION | 107 |
The northern State of | 113 |
Struggles for the throne | 119 |
317385 | 126 |
Sociological analysis of the petty States | 132 |
The Hun kingdom of the Hsia 407431 | 139 |
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 |
22 | 211 |
Reforms and Welfare schemes | 215 |
Military collapse | 221 |
4 The empire of the Southern Sung dynasty 1127 | 225 |
THE PERIOD OF ABSOLUTISM | 232 |
National rising | 238 |
Wars against Mongols and Japanese | 244 |
Commercial and industrial developments | 250 |
Politics at court | 256 |
Risings | 262 |
Russia in Manchuria | 296 |
THE REPUBLIC 19121948 | 303 |
PRESENTDAY CHINA | 320 |
Notes and References | 335 |
24 | 336 |
32 | 337 |
40 | 338 |
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