China : a history / Harold M. Tanner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tanner, Harold Miles

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

China--History.

China.

History.

Physical Description:

xii, 610 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Indianapolis : Hackett Pub. Co., [2009]

Contents:

Part I. The early empire : building institutions and identity, 2070 (?) BCE-220 CE

From myth to history: the beginnings of the Chinese state and culture in the Xia, Shang, and Western Zhou dynasties

The age of fighting and philosophy: the Eastern Zhou dynasty

From feudal states to bureaucratic empire: the Qin and Western Han dynasties

The decline and fall of Eastern civilization: the Xin and Eastern Han dynasties

Part II. Cultural interaction and transformation, 220-1368

The age of warriors and Buddhists : the Three Kingdoms, Western Jin, and the period of North-South division

A multi-ethnic empire: the Sui and Tang dynasties

Competing suns in heaven: the Song and its neighbors

China in the Mongol empire: the Yuan dynasty

Part III. A new Confucian empire, 1368-1911

A model government for the ages: the early to mid-Ming dynasty

Wealth and instability: the mid- and late Ming

A Manchu empire: the Qing dynasty to 1799

The Qing dynasty's 19th-century crises

Part IV. The road to wealth and power, 1911-present

Struggling to build a nation: the 1911 revolution and the early Republic, 1912-26

Years of turmoil: China under Chiang Kai-shek's Guomindang government

The People's Republic of China: the Mao era

The march toward wealth and power.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 584-593) and index.

ISBN:

9780872209152

0872209156

9780872209169

0872209164

OCLC:

262429335