A Concise History of China,9780898751949

A Concise History of China

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ISBN13: 9780898751949
ISBN10: 0898751942
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2001-03-01
Publisher(s): Lightning Source Inc
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Author Biography

Jian Bozan (1898-1968), head of the History Department, Beijing University Shao Xunzheng (1909-73), head of the History Department, Qinghua University Hu Hua, head of the Department of History of the Chinese Communist Party, Chinese People's University

Table of Contents

Introduction 1(4)
EARLY PERIOD (Primitive Society, Slave Society and Feudal Society)
Remote Antiquity to the Period of the Warring States (Prior to 300 B.C.)
5(15)
Archaeological Discoveries
5(1)
Prehistoric Legends
6(1)
Xia and Shang
6(4)
Western Zhou and Eastern Zhou
10(8)
The Culture of the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods
18(2)
Qin, Han, The Three Kingdoms, Jin And The Southern and Northern Dynasties (3rd Century B.C.-6th Century A.D.)
20(25)
The Qin Dynasty
20(2)
The Establishment of the Western Han Dynasty and Its Development
22(3)
Land Concentration Under Western Han and the Peasant Uprisings
25(3)
The Rise of Eastern Han and Its Development
28(2)
Internal Struggles of the Ruling Class, the Uprising of the Yellow Turbans and the Disintegration of Eastern Han
30(2)
The Cultural Achievements of Western and Eastern Han
32(1)
From the Three Kingdoms to the Unification Under Western Jin
33(3)
The Sixteen States
36(2)
Eastern Jin; the Southern Dynasties
38(2)
The Northern Dynasties
40(3)
The Influence of Buddhism on Politics, Economic Life and Culture
43(2)
The Periods of SUI, TANG, The Five Dynasties, Song and YUAN (6th to 14th Century)
45(26)
The Unification of China Under Sui and the Fall of Sui
45(2)
The Establishment of the Tang Dynasty and Its Days of Power
47(2)
The Internal Strife of the Ruling Class
49(2)
Great Peasant Uprisings
51(1)
The Disintegration of the Tang Dynasty and the Rise of the Five Dynasties and Ten States
52(1)
Literature, Art and Religion in the Tang Dynasty
53(2)
The Unification of China Under the Song Dynasty
55(2)
The Development of Industry and Trade
57(1)
The Reforms Introduced by Wang Anshi and His Failure
57(2)
The Fall of Northern Song
59(1)
The Establishment of the Southern Song Dynasty
60(2)
The Fall of Southern Song
62(1)
Printing and the Advance of Culture
63(1)
The Establishment of the Yuan Dynasty
63(4)
Industry and Trade in the Yuan Dynasty
67(2)
Literature and Religion in the Yuan Dynasty
69(1)
The Great Peasant Uprisings Against the Rule of the Mongol Nobles in China
69(2)
The Ming and Qing Dynasties (14th to 19th Century)
71(15)
The Ming Dynasty
71(1)
Concentration of Land and the Beginning of Money Rent
72(1)
Growth of Handicraft Workshops, Prosperity of Urban Economy and Arrival of Europeans
73(2)
Peasant Wars and the Fall of the Ming Dynasty
75(2)
The New Spirit in Ming Culture
77(1)
The Entry of the Manchus Through the Shanhaiguan Pass and the Han People's Struggle Against the Manchus
78(1)
Prosperity of the Qing Dynasty and Its Decline
79(2)
The Qing Institutions
81(1)
Industry and Trade Before the Opium War
82(2)
Culture in the Period Before the Opium War
84(2)
MODERN PERIOD (The Period of the Old Democratic Revolution)
The Opium Wars
86(9)
The Illieit Trade in Opium and the Ban on Opium
86(2)
The War of 1840-42
88(1)
The Treaties of Nanking, Wanghia and Whampoa
89(1)
The Heroic Resistance of the Chinese People
90(1)
The Extension of Foreign Aggressive Designs
91(1)
The War of 1856-60
92(3)
The Taiping Revolution
95(8)
The Taiping Revolution and Its Initial Successes
95(2)
The Failure of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom
97(3)
The Uprisings of the Nian Forces and Various Ethnic Minorities
100(3)
The Position of China in the eighth and ninth decades of the 19th century
103(5)
The Reduction of China to a Semi-Colony
103(1)
The ``Westernization'' Movement Among the Feudal Bureaucrats and Early Beginnings of Modern Industrial Capitalism in China
104(2)
Intensification of Foreign Capitalist Encroachment on China's Frontiers
106(2)
The Sino-Japanese war and the crisis of the partition of china by imperialist powers
108(7)
Japan's Designs on Korea and China
108(1)
The Sino-Japanese War of 1894-95
109(2)
The Imperialist Powers' ``Spheres of Influence''
111(3)
The Qing Government as the Servant of Foreign Imperialism
114(1)
The bourgeois political reform movement of 1898
115(4)
The Rise of Bourgeois Ideas of Political Reform
115(2)
The Failure of the 1898 Reform Movement
117(2)
The yi he tuan peasant movement against imperialist aggression
119(5)
The Anti-Imperialist Movement of the People as Reflected in the Opposition to Foreign Missionaries
119(1)
The Yi He Tuan Movement
120(1)
The Combined Forces of the Imperialist Brigands Against China in 1900
121(2)
The 1901 Treaty
123(1)
The Bourgeois Revolution of 1911
124(8)
The Chinese People Under the Yoke of Imperialist and Feudal Forces
124(3)
The Development of the Bourgeois-Democratic Movement
127(1)
The Outbreak of the 1911 Revolution
128(2)
The Crisis Lurking in the Rapid Success of the Wuchang Uprising
130(1)
The Failure of the 1911 Revolution and Its Historical Significance
131(1)
China Before and After the First World War
132(3)
China's Plight Under the Twofold Oppression of Imperialists and Warlords
132(2)
Further Development of Chinese Capitalism During the First World War
134(1)
New Learning and Old Learning
135(5)
CONTEMPORARY PERIOD (The Period of the New Democratic Revolution)
The Beginning of the New Democratic Revolution The May 4th Movement, the Founding of the Communist Party of China and the First Revolutionary Civil War
140(34)
The May 4th Movement Against Imperialism
140(2)
The Influence of the October Socialist Revolution on China
142(2)
The Founding of the Communist Party of China and the Development of the Working-Class Movement
144(6)
The Imperialist Powers and the Chinese Warlords
150(2)
The Decision of the Communist Party of China to Form a Revolutionary United Front
152(3)
Sun Yat-sen Accepts the Aid of the Communist Party and Reorganizes the Kuomintang
155(3)
The May 30th Movement and Its Outcome
158(2)
The Consolidation of the Guangdong Revolutionary Base
160(3)
The Right Wing of the National Bourgeoisie Plans to Usurp the Leadership of the Revolution
163(3)
The Victorious Progress of the Northern Expedition
166(3)
The Views of Stalin and Mao Zedong on the Chinese Revolution
169(2)
The Kuomintang Reactionaries Betray the Revolution
171(3)
The Second Revolutionary Civil War
174(24)
The Crimes Committed by the Kuomintang Reactionaries
174(4)
The August 1st Uprising and the Establishment of the Revolutionary Base in the Jinggang Mountains
178(3)
The Development of Revolutionary Bases
181(5)
The Occupation of Northeast China by Japan and the People's Struggle Against Japanese Aggression
186(3)
The Long March of the Red Army
189(3)
The Anti-Japanese National United Front Begins to Take Shape
192(6)
The War of Resistance Against Japan
198(20)
Resistance Led by the Chinese Communist Party
198(6)
Help from the Soviet Union; Britain's and the United States' Attempt to Induce the Kuomintang to Come to Terms with Japan
204(1)
The Chinese Communist Party Persists in the War of Resistance and Checks Three Anti-Communist Onslaughts by the Kuomintang
205(7)
The Communist Party Fights for Anti-Japanese Democracy
212(3)
The Seventh National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party
215(1)
The Victory of the War of Resistance
216(2)
The Third Revolutionary Civil War
218(18)
The Communist Party Struggles for Peace and Democracy
218(2)
The Chinese Communist Party and the Chinese People Smash the Attacks of the Kuomintang Troops
220(4)
The Fight for the Thorough Destruction of the Feudal and Comprador Regime
224(1)
The Upsurge of the Patriotic Democratic Movement in Kuomintang-Controlled Areas
225(4)
The Victory of the Third Revolutionary Civil War
229(3)
The Opening of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference
232(2)
The Establishment of the People's Republic of China
234(2)
The Contemporary Cultural and Ideological Revolution in China
236(8)
Postscript 244(3)
Index 247

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