China : a history / John Keay.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Keay, John.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

China--History.

China.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (625 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

An authoritative history of five millennia of Chinese history

Contents:

Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Maps and Diagrams; Introduction; Rewriting the past; Spadework; Cradle, core and beyond; The dynastic dynamic; The triumph of Pinyin; A matter of scale; 1 Rites to Writing, Pre C. 1050 BC; The Great Beginning; Glint of bronze; Finding Family; In the oracular; 2 Sages and Heroes, C. 1050-C. 250 BC; Footprints of Zhou; Less spring than autumn; The Confucian conveyance; Warring states and statist wars; 3 The First Empire, C. 250-210 BC; Stone Cattle Road; Qin's cultural revolution; Crumbling wall, hidden tomb; 4 Han Ascendant, 210-141 BC; Qin implodes

Pawn to kingJaded monarchs; 5 Within and Beyond, 141 BC-AD 1; Han and Hun; Explorer Zhang and the Western Regions; Administrating an empire; Confucian fundamentalism; 6 Wang Mang and the Han Reprise, AD 1-189; A one-man dynasty; Across the watershed; Decline and fall; 7 Four Hundred Years of Vicissitude, 189-550; Three Kingdoms and the Red Cliffs; Dao and the Celestial Masters; Enter the Enlightened One; Into the abyss; Luoyang again; 8 Sui, Tang and the Second Empire, 550-650; Intercalary conjunction; Sui-cide; Sons of the sunset and the sunrise; Beyond the Jade Gate; 9 High Tang, 650-755

Wanton, not waywardThe greatest power in Asia; Like a breath of spring; A turning point; 10 Reconfiguring the Empire, 7551005; Low Tang; Five Dynasties or Ten Kingdoms; Song and Liao; 11 Caving In, 1005-1235; The Great State of White and High; Reform and reappraisal; In Singing-girl Towers; Jin and Song; 12 By Land and Sea, 1235-1405; Sunset of the Song; Mongol reunification; Mongol misadventures; Triump of the Ming; 13 The Rites of Ming, 1405-1620; From the edge of the sky to the ends of the earth; Misadventures and misfortunes; The Great Rites Controversy; Landmarks and inroads

14 The Manchu Conquest, 1620-1750Overwhelming Ming; From Jurchen to Manchu; Much in demand; Zungharia, Xinjiang and Tibet; 15 Death Throes of Empire, 1760-1880; Self-evident truths; Insults and opium; Taiping and Tianjin; 16 Republicans and Nationalists, 1880-1950; Brush to pen; From empire to republic; War and more war; Long March, long war; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography

Notes:

"Originally published in Britain in 2008 by HarperPress, an imprint of HarperCollins"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 549-560) and index.

ISBN:

1-282-33480-8

9786612334801

0-465-02002-X

OCLC:

665868849