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A Brief History of Chinese Civilization / Conrad Schirokauer and Miranda Brown.
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- Author/Creator:
- Schirokauer, Conrad.
- Language:
- English
- Edition:
- Fourth Edition.
- Summary:
- A Brief History of Chinese Civilization explores the development of China through its art, religion, literature, and thought, as well as through its economic, political, and social history. Authors Conrad Schirokauer and Miranda Brown combine strong research with extensive classroom teaching experience to offer a clear, consistent, and highly readable text that is accessible to students with no previous knowledge of the history of China. The Fourth Edition features:
- A thorough revision that reflects current scholarship and recent history. These updates include military archaeology, expanded coverage on relations with the outside world, new material on Fascism as a path toward modernity in China, and much more. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Part 1 The Classical Civilization of China 1
- Chapter 1 "China" in Antiquity 2
- The Neolithic Age 3
- The Rise of the Bronze Age 6
- Erlitou and Xia 7
- The Shang 7
- The Origins of Chinese Writing 8
- Oracle Bones 9
- Bronze Vessels 13
- Other Bronze Age Civilizations 14
- The Western Zhou Dynasty 16
- The Odes 19
- Chapter 2 Turbulent Times and Classical Thought 23
- The Spring and Autumn Period 24
- The Warring States Period 26
- "The Hundred Schools" 31
- The Analects 31
- Mozi 33
- Mencius 36
- Xunzi 38
- Laozi and Zhuangzi 40
- Han Feizi 43
- Chapter 3 The Early Imperial Period 46
- The Qin 47
- Sources and Historiographical Problems 47
- Reappraisals 50
- The Han 52
- The Formative Years 52
- The Quality of Han Rule 54
- The Xiongnu and Other Neighboring Peoples 55
- Intellectual Movements 57
- Poetry 60
- Gender 61
- Changes in Political Economy during the Han Period 65
- The Fall of the Han 72
- Part 2 China in a Buddhist Age 75
- The Fundamentals of Buddhism 76
- Chapter 4 China during the Period of Disunity 81
- A World in Disarray 82
- China Divided 84
- The Northern Wei (386-534) 84
- Buddhism in the North 86
- Daoism-The Religion 89
- The South 91
- Poetry 92
- Calligraphy 93
- Painting 95
- Buddhism in the South 96
- China on the Eve of Reunification 97
- Chapter 5 The Cosmopolitan Civilization of the Sui and Tang: 581-907 99
- The Sui (581-617) 100
- The Tang: Establishment and Consolidation 101
- Gaozong and Empress Wu 105
- High Tang 107
- City Life in the Capital Chang'an 108
- The Flourishing of Buddhism 111
- Institutionally 111
- Aesthetically 112
- Intellectually 113
- Pure Land and Chan 114
- The Hungry Ghost Festival 115
- Daoism 116
- The Rebellion of An Lushan (755-763) 116
- Li Bai and Du Fu 118
- Late Tang 121
- Late Tang Poetry and Culture 122
- Collapse of the Dynasty 124
- Part 3 Late Imperial/Early Modern Period 127
- Chapter 6 China during the Song: 960-1279 129
- The Founding 130
- The New Elite 130
- The Examination System 132
- The Northern Song (960-1127) 133
- Government and Politics 134
- Wang Anshi 136
- The Economy 138
- The Religious Scene 141
- The Confucian Revival 144
- Poetry and Painting 144
- The Southern Song (1127-1279) 148
- Southern Song Cities and Commerce 148
- Literary and Visual Arts 150
- "Neo-Confucianism" 152
- Values and Gender 155
- The End 157
- Chapter 7 The Mongol Empire and the Yuan Dynasty 159
- Chinggis Khan: Founding of the Mongol Empire 160
- China under the Mongols: The Early Years (1211-1260) 163
- Kublai Khan and the Early Yuan 165
- The Yuan Continued (1294-1355) 167
- The Economy 168
- Society 169
- Religion 169
- Cultural and Intellectual Life 170
- "Northern" Drama 172
- Painting 175
- Rebellions and Disintegration 179
- Chapter 8 The Ming Dynasty: 1368-1644 181
- The Early Ming (1368-1424) 182
- Maritime Expeditions (1405-1433) 185
- The Early Middle Period (1425-1505) 186
- The Later Middle Period (1506-1590) 188
- Economy and Society 190
- Literacy and Literature 192
- The Novel 193
- Drama 194
- Painting 195
- Ming Thought-Wang Yangming 198
- Religion 199
- Ming Thought after Wang Yangming 200
- Dong Qichang and Late Ming Painting 202
- Late Ming Government (1590-1644) 202
- Chapter 9 East Asia and Modern Europe: First Encounters 208
- The Portuguese in East Asia 209
- The Jesuits in Japan 211
- The Impact of Other Europeans 213
- The "Closing" of Japan 214
- The Jesuits in China 216
- The Rites Controversy 218
- The Decline of Christianity in China 219
- Trade with the West and the Canton System 221
- Chapter 10 The Qing Dynasty 223
- The Founding of the Qing 224
- Early Qing Thinkers and Painters 227
- The Reign of Kangxi 230
- Yongzheng 231
- Qianlong 232
- Eighteenth-Century Governance 233
- Eighteenth-Century Literati Culture 234
- Fiction 236
- A Buoyant Economy 239
- Social Change 240
- Ecology 243
- Dynastic Decline 243
- Part 4 China in the Modern World 245
- Chapter 11 Internal Crises and Western Intrusion 247
- The Opium War and Taiping Rebellion 248
- The Opium War (1839-1841) and Its Causes 248
- The Treaty of Nanjing and the Treaty System 253
- Internal Crisis 255
- The Taiping Rebellion (1850-1864) 256
- Zeng Guofan and the Defeat of the Taipings 258
- China and the World from the Treaty of Nanjing to the End of the Taipings 260
- 1870-1894 261
- The Post-Taiping Revival 262
- Self-Strengthening-The First Phase 262
- Self-Strengthening-The Theory 264
- The Empress Dowager and the Government 265
- Education 267
- Economic Self-Strengthening 268
- The Traditional Economic Sector 269
- Missionary Efforts and Christian Influences 270
- Old and New Wine in Old Bottles 272
- Foreign Relations 274
- Continued Pressures 274
- Vietnam and the Sino-French War of 1884-1885 274
- Chapter 12 China: Endings and Beginnings, 1894-1927 277
- The Last Years of the Last Dynasty 278
- The New Reformers 278
- The Scramble for Concessions 280
- The Boxer Rising 281
- Winds of Change 282
- Stirrings of Protest and Revolution 283
- Eleventh-Hour Reform 284
- The Revolution of 1911 285
- From Yuan Shikai to Chiang Kai-shek (Jiang Jieshi) 286
- Yuan Shikai 286
- The Warlord Era 288
- Intellectual Ferment 289
- Intellectual Alternatives 290
- Cultural Alternatives 291
- Marxism in China: The Early Years 294
- The GMD and Sun Yat-Sen (1913-1923) 295
- GMD and CCP Cooperation (1923-1927) 296
- The Break 298
- Establishment of the Nationalist Government 299
- Part 5 Building a New China 301
- Chapter 13 China under the Nationalists 302
- China: The Nanjing Decade-An Uneasy Peace 303
- China: The Nanjing Decade-Domestic Policies 303
- The Chinese Communists (1927-1934) 306
- The Long March 307
- United Front and War 309
- Expansion of the War into a Pacific War 312
- The Course of the War 313
- China at War 314
- Japan at War 317
- The End of World War II 318
- Taiwan 318
- China: Civil War and Communist Triumph (1946-1949) 321
- Chapter 14 China under Mao: 1949-1976 325
- Consolidation and Construction Soviet Style, 1949-1958 326
- Government and Politics 326
- Foreign Relations and the Korean War 327
- Economic Policies 328
- Thought Reform and Intellectuals 330
- The Revolution Continued, 1958-1976 332
- The Great Leap Forward and the Great Famine 333
- The Sino-Soviet Split 335
- Domestic Politics, 1961-1965 338
- The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution: The Radical Phase, 1966-1969 339
- The Winding Down, 1969-1976 342
- Chapter 15 The Chinese World since Mao 3 47
- Deng Xiaoping and the Four Modernizations 348
- The Four Cardinal Principles 350
- Intellectual Life and the Arts in the 1980s 351
- Tiananmen 353
- State, Economy, and Society after 1989 354
- The Environment 357
- The Revival of Religion 359
- Foreign Relations and Hong Kong 360
- Intellectuals and Artists after 1989 362
- Taiwan 368.
- ISBN:
- 9780495913238
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