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9780618133871

China : A Cultural, Social and Political History

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  • ISBN13:

    9780618133871

  • ISBN10:

    0618133879

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2005-10-18
  • Publisher: Cengage Learning

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Summary

Designed for the East Asian history course, this text features the latest scholarship on the region and offers a range of cultural, political, economic, and intellectual history. Coverage is balanced among East Asian regions, with approximately 20 percent of the text focused on Korea, an area that has become increasingly important in East Asian courses and in world politics. Special attention is devoted to coverage of gender and material culture-topics that are reinforced through the text's pedagogical features. Color inserts illustrate the rich artistic heritage of East Asia and bolster the coverage of material culture. Connections sections appear throughout the text and provide an international context for the history of East Asia. Some of the topics covered include Buddhism, the Mongols, Imperialism, and World War II. Each chapter includes primary source features that document, among other topics, culture or the arts. Biographical sketches highlight the lives of major figures in East Asian history.

Table of Contents

The Bronze Age: Shang and Western Zhou (ca. 1500-771 B.C.E.)
The Geography of the Chinese Subcontinent
The Shang Dynasty (ca. 1500-1045 B.C.E.)
Developments Outside the Shang Core
The Western Zhou Dynasty (1045-771 B.C.E.)
Philosophers and Warring States During the Eastern Zhou (770-256 B.C.E.)
The Multistate System of the Eastern Zhou
Warfare and Its Consequences
The Hundred Schools of Thought
Warring States Literature and Art: The Case of Chu
The Founding of the Bureaucratic Empire: Qin and Han (256 B.C.E.-200 B.C.E.)
The Qin Unification (256-206 B.C.E.)
The Han Dynasty (206 B.C.E.-220 C.E.)
Intellectual, Literary, and Religious Currents
Chinese Society in Han Times
Central Asia and the Silk Road
Borderlands
Maintaining the Empire.
Political Division (200-580)
The Three Kingdoms (220-265) and the Western Jin Dynasty (265-316)
Non-Chinese Dominance in the North
The Southern Dynasties and Aristocratic Culture
The Buddhist Conquest of China
Daoist Religion
The Cosmopolitan Empires of Sui and Tang (581-960)
The Northwest Military Aristocracy and the Sui Reunification of China
The Founding of the Tang Dynasty (618-907)
The Tang at Its Height
The Rebellion of An Lushan and Its Aftermath
The Achievements of Tang Men of Letters
The Dunhuang Documents
The Tang Dynasty's Final Decades and the Five Dynasties
China Among Equals: Song, Liao, Xia, and Jin (907-1276)
The Founding of the Song Dynasty
Song's Rivals: Liao and Xia
A New Era
The Fall of the Northern Song and the Jin Dynasty
Hangzhou and the Southern Song
Song Culture and Society
Mongol Rule: Yuan (1215-1368)
The Mongol Conquest of the Jin and Xia Dynasties
The Mongol Conquest of the Southern Song
Life in China Under the Mongols
The Ming Dynasty (1368-1600)
The Founding of the Ming Dynasty
Diplomacy and Defense
Social and Cultural Trends
Manchus and the Qing (1600-1800)
The Ming Dynasty Lapses into Disorder
The Manchus
Ming Loyalism
The Qing at Its Height
Contacts with Europe
Social and Cultural Cross Currents
Disorder and Decline (1800-1900)
Economic and Fiscal Problems
Midcentury Crises
Self-Strengthening
Foreigners in China
The Failures of Reform
The Boxer Rebellion
The Decline of the Qing Empire in Comparative Perspective
Remaking China (1900-1927)
The End of Monarchy
The Presidency of Yuan Shikai and the Emergence of the Warlords
Toward a More Modern China
Reunification by the Nationalists
War and Revolution (1927-1949)
The Chinese Communist Party
The Nationalist Government in Nanjing
The Japanese Invasion and the Retreat to Chongqing
The Chinese Communist Party During the War
The Civil War and the Communist Victory
The People's Republic Under Mao (1949-1976)
The Party in Power
Departing from the Soviet Model
The Cultural Revolution
The Death of Mao
New Directions (1976 to the Present)
The Communist Party After Mao
Restructuring the Economy
Social and Cultural Changes
Critical Voices
Taiwan
China in the World
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