Inhalt: Maps -- A Note on the Text -- Major Chronological Periods -- Conversion Tables of Currencies, Weights, and Measures -- 1. A Conceptual Framework of Modern China -- I. The Persistence of Traditional Institutions, 1600-1800. 2. The Rise and Splendor of the Ch'ing Empire -- 3. Political And Economic Institutions -- 4. Social and Intellectual Conditions -- 5. Foreign Relations -- 6. The Turn of Dynastic Fortune: From Prosperity to Decline -- II. Foreign Aggression and Domestic Rebellions, 1800-1864. 7. The Canton System of Trade -- 8. The Opium War -- 9. The Second Treaty Settlement -- 10. The Taiping Revolution and the Nien and Moslem Rebellions -- III. Self-strengthening in an Age of Accelerated Foreign Imperialism, 1861-95. 11. The Dynastic Revival and the Self-strengthening Movement -- 12. Foreign Relations and Court Politics, 1861-80 -- 13. Foreign Encroachment in Formosa, Sinkiang, and Annam -- 14. Acceleration of Imperialism: The Japanese Aggression in Korea and the "Partition of China" -- IV. Reform and Revolution, 1898-1912. 15. The Reform Movement of 1898 -- 16. The Boxer Uprising, 1900 -- 17. Reform and Constitutionalism at the End of the Ch'ing Period -- 18. Late Ch'ing Intellectual, Social and Economic Changes, with Special Reference to 1895-1911 -- 19. The Ch'ing Period in Historical Perspective -- 20. Revolution, Republic, and Warlordism -- V. Ideological Awakening and the War of Resistance, 1917-45. 21. The Intellectual Revolution, 1917-23 -- Inhalt: 22. National Unification Amidst Ideological Ferment and Anti-imperialistic Agitation -- 23. The Nationalist Government: A Decade of Challenges, 1928-37 -- 24. The Sino-Japanese War, 1937-45 -- VI. The Rise of the Chinese People's Republic -- 25. The Civil War, 1945-49 -- 26. The People's Republic: Its First Decade -- 27. The Sino-Soviet Split -- 28. The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution -- 29. The Fall of Lin Piao and Its Aftermath -- 30. China Rejoins the International Community -- 31. The Nationalist Rule on Taiwan -- VII. China After Mao: The Search for a New Order -- 32. The Smashing of the Gang of Four -- 33. Teng Hsiao-p'ing and China's New Order -- 34. The Normalization of Relations Between China and the United States -- 35. The Four Modernizations -- 36. The End of the Maoist Age -- 37. Building Socialism with Chinese Characteristics -- 38. China In Transition, 1986-88: The Cultural Impact of the Open-Door Policy -- 39. Taiwan's "Economic Miracle" and the Prospect for Unification with Mainland China -- 40. The Violent Crackdown at T'ien-an-men Square, June 3-4, 1989 -- 41. The Chinese Model of Development: Quasi-capitalism in a Political Dictatorship -- 42. The Rise of China -- App. I. Chinese Personal Names, Places, and Terms mentioned in part VII in both Wade-Giles and Pinyin Systems -- App. II. Hanyu Pinyin/Wade-Giles Conversion Table -- Illustration Credits -- Index. |
