A History of China

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A HISTORY OF CHINA

by

WOLFRAM EBERHARD





CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION


           _THE EARLIEST TIMES_

Chapter I: PREHISTORY

  1 Sources for the earliest history
  2 The Peking Man
  3 The Palaeolithic Age
  4 The Neolithic Age
  5 The eight principal prehistoric cultures
  6 The Yang-shao culture
  7 The Lung-shan culture
  8 The first petty States in Shansi

Chapter II: THE SHANG DYNASTY (_c_. 1600-1028 B.C.)

  1 Period, origin, material culture
  2 Writing and Religion
  3 Transition to feudalism


             _ANTIQUITY_

Chapter III: THE CHOU DYNASTY (_c_. 1028-257 B.C.)

  1 Cultural origin of the Chou and end of the Shang dynasty
  2 Feudalism in the new empire
  3 Fusion of Chou and Shang
  4 Limitation of the imperial power
  5 Changes in the relative strength of the feudal states
  6 Confucius
  7 Lao Tz[)u]

Chapter IV: THE CONTENDING STATES (481-256 B.C.):
DISSOLUTION OF THE FEUDAL SYSTEM

  1 Social and military changes
  2 Economic changes
  3 Cultural changes

Chapter V: THE CH'IN DYNASTY (256-207 B.C.)

  1 Towards the unitary State
  2 Centralization in every field
  3 Frontier Defence. Internal collapse


            _THE MIDDLE AGES_

Chapter VI: THE HAN DYNASTY (206 B.C.-A.D. 220)

  1 Development of the gentry-state
  2 Situation of the Hsiung-nu empire; its relation to the
    Han empire. Incorporation of South China
  3 Brief feudal reaction. Consolidation of the gentry
  4 Turkestan policy. End of the Hsiung-nu empire
  5 Impoverishment. Cliques. End of the Dynasty
  6 The pseudo-socialistic dictatorship. Revolt of the "Red Eyebrows"
  7 Reaction and Restoration: the Later Han dynasty
  8 Hsiung-nu policy
  9 Economic situation. Rebellion of the "Yellow Turbans".
    Collapse of the Han dynasty
 10 Literature and Art

Chapter VII: THE EPOCH OF THE FIRST DIVISION OF CHINA (A.D. 220-580)

    (A) _The three kingdoms_ (A.D. 220-265)
  1 Social, intellectual, and economic problems during the
    period of the first division
  2 Status of the two southern Kingdoms
  3 The northern State of Wei

    (B) _The Western Chin dynasty_ (265-317)
  1 Internal situation in the Chin empire
  2 Effect on the frontier peoples
  3 Struggles for the throne
  4 Migration of Chinese
  5 Victory of the Huns. The Hun Han dynasty
    (later renamed the Earlier Chao dynasty)

    (C) _The alien empires in North China, down to the Toba_
       (A.D. 317-385)
  1 The Later Chao dynasty in eastern North China (Hun; 329-352)
  2 Earlier Yen dynasty in the north-east (proto-Mongol; 352-370),
    and the Earlier Ch'in dynasty in all north China (Tibetan; 351-394)
  3 The fragmentation of north China
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