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A History of China

A History of China

by Wolfram Eberhard

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Author
Eberhard, Wolfram, 1909-1989
Title
A history of China., [3d ed. rev. and enl.]
Credits
Produced by John Hagerson, Juliet Sutherland, Leonard Johnson, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net
Language
English
LoC Class
DS: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: Asia
Subject
China -- History
Category
Text
eBook-No.
17695
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/17695
Release Date
February 7, 2006
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.A HISTORY OF CHINA — by
  2. 2.WOLFRAM EBERHARD
  3. 3.CONTENTS
  4. 4.ILLUSTRATIONS
  5. 5.MAPS
  6. 6.INTRODUCTION
  7. 7.THE EARLIEST TIMES
  8. 8.PREHISTORY
  9. 9.THE SHANG DYNASTY ( c. 1600-1028 B.C. )
  10. 10.ANTIQUITY
  11. 11.THE CHOU DYNASTY ( c. 1028-257 B.C. )
  12. 12.THE CONTENDING STATES (481-256 B.C. ): DISSOLUTION OF THE FEUDAL SYSTEM
  13. 13.THE CH'IN DYNASTY (256-207 B.C. )
  14. 14.THE MIDDLE AGES
  15. 15.THE HAN DYNASTY (206 B.C. - A.D. 220)
  16. 16.THE EPOCH OF THE FIRST DIVISION OF CHINA ( A.D. 220-580) — (A) The three kingdoms (220-265) — (B) The Western Chin dynasty (A.D. 265-317) — (C) The alien empires in North China, down to the Toba ( A.D. 317-385) — (D) The Toba empire in North China ( A.D. 385-550) — (E) Succession States of the Toba ( A.D. 550-580): Northern Ch'i dynasty, Northern Chou dynasty — (F) The Southern Empires — Principal dynasties of North and South China — North and South — Western Chin dynasty ( A.D. 265-317)
  17. 17.THE EMPIRES OF THE SUI AND THE T'ANG — (A) The Sui dynasty ( A.D. 580-618) — (B) The T'ang dynasty ( A.D. 618-906)
  18. 18.MODERN TIMES
  19. 19.THE EPOCH OF THE SECOND DIVISION OF CHINA — (A) The period of transition: the Five Dynasties ( A.D. 906-960) — (B) Period of Moderate Absolutism — (1) The Northern Sung dynasty — (2) The Liao (Kitan) dynasty in the north (937-1125) — (3) The Hsi-Hsia State in the north (1038-1227) — (4) The empire of the Southern Sung dynasty (1127-1279) — (5) The empire of the Juchên in the north (1115-1234)
  20. 20.THE PERIOD OF ABSOLUTISM — (A) The Mongol Epoch (1280-1368) — (B) The Ming Epoch (1368-1644) — (C) The Manchu Dynasty (1644-1911)
  21. 21.THE REPUBLIC (1912-1948)
  22. 22.PRESENT-DAY CHINA
  23. 23.NOTES AND REFERENCES
  24. 24.INDEX — Transcriber's Notes

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