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| Preface to the Enlarged Edition | |
| Preface to the Original Edition | |
| Introduction: Approaches to Understanding China's History | |
| The Variety of Historical Perspectives | |
| Geography: The Contrast of North and South | |
| Humankind in Nature | |
| The Village: Family and Lineage | |
| Inner Asia and China: The Steppe and the Sown | |
| Rise and Decline of the Imperial Autocracy | |
| Origins: The Discoveries of Archaeology Paleolithic China | |
| Neolithic China | |
| Excavation of Shang and Xia | |
| The Rise of Central Authority | |
| Western Zhou | |
| Implications of the New Archaeological Record | |
| The First Unification: Imperial Confucianism The Utility of Dynasties | |
| Princes and Philosophers | |
| The Confucian Code | |
| Daoism | |
| Unification by Qin | |
| Consolidation and Expansion under the Han | |
| Imperial Confucianism | |
| Correlative Cosmology | |
| Emperor and Scholars | |
| Reunification in the Buddhist Age Disunion | |
| The Buddhist Teaching | |
| Sui-Tang Reunification | |
| Buddhism and the State | |
| Decline of the Tang Dynasty | |
| Social Change: The Tang-Song Transition | |
| China's Greatest Age: Northern and Southern Song Efflorescence of Material Growth | |
| Education and the Examination System | |
| The Creation of Neo-Confucianism | |
| Formation of Gentry Society | |
| The Paradox of Song China and Inner Asia The Symbiosis of Wen and Wu | |
| The Rise of Non-Chinese Rule over China | |
| China in the Mongol Empire | |
| Interpreting the Song Era | |
| Government in the Ming Dynasty Legacies of the Hongwu Emperor | |
| Fiscal Problems | |
| China Turns Inward | |
| Factional Politics | |
| The Qing Success Story The Manchu Conquest Institutional Adaptation The Jesuit Interlude | |
| Growth of Qing Control in Inner Asia | |
| The Attempted Integration of Polity and Culture | |
| Late Imperial China, 1600-1911 | |
| The Paradox of Growth without Development The Rise in Population | |
| Diminishing Returns of Farm Labor | |
| The Subjection of Women | |
| Domestic Trade and Commercial Organization | |
| Merchant-Official Symbiosis | |
| Limitations of the Law | |
| Frontier Unrest and the Opening of China The Weakness of State Leadership | |
| The White Lotus Rebellion, 1796-1804 | |
| Maritime China: Origins of the Overseas Chinese | |
| European Trading Companies and the Canton Trade | |
| Rebellion on the Turkestan Frontier, 1826-1835 | |
| Opium and the Struggle for a New Order at Guangzhou, 1834-1842 | |
| Inauguration of the Treaty Century after 1842 | |
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