Contents

(and malcontents)

Chapter 1: An Introduction to Chinese History

	Geography
	The Chinese View of History
	A Word About Spelling

Chapter 2: The Development of Chinese Civilization

Before 255 B.C.

	Mythical and Legendary Times
	The Shang or Yin Dynasty
	The Western Zhou Dynasty
	The Eastern Zhou Dynasty
	The Age of Warring States Begins
	Confucius
	Daoism
	Other Sages
	Legalism

Chapter 3: The First Chinese Empire

255 B.C. to 220 A.D.

	The Kingmakers of Qin
	The Qin Dynasty
	The Western Han Dynasty
	The Xin and Eastern Han Dynasty

Chapter 4: The Zenith of Chinese Civilization

220 to 1279 A.D.

	China's Medieval Age
	The Sui Dynasty
	The Tang Dynasty
	The Tang Decline
	The Song Dynasty

Chapter 5: Mongols and Mings

1279 to 1644

	The Yuan Dynasty
	The Ming Dynasty

Chapter 6: The Qing, or Manchu Dynasty

1644 to 1911

	Kangxi
	Qianlong
	The Opium War
	The Taiping Rebellion and the Arrow War
	The Paper Dragon
	The Boxer Rebellion

Chapter 7: The Nationalist Years

1911 to 1949

	The Warlord Period
	Chiang Kai-shek vs. the Communists
	The Long March
	The Second Sino-Japanese War Begins
	Stalemate & Stagnation
	Ichigo
	The Final Showdown

Chapter 8: China Since 1949

	The Establishment of the People's Republic
	The Great Leap Forward
	"Women Hold Up half of the Heavens"
	The Cultural Revolution
	The Lifting of the Bamboo Curtain
	After Mao
	Tragedy at Tiananmen
	Today's China Syndrome
	Taiwan: The Watching Dragon