Stella & Rose's Books

Contents

• VOLUME I
• Introduction
• Preface to the Second Edition
• Acknowledgements
• Translator's Preface
• Author's Introduction
• Lands and Peoples
• The Han Chinese
• Non-Han Minorities
• Modes of Life and Cultures
• Outline of the Historical Evolution of the Chinese World
• The General Characteristics of Chinese Civilisation
• PART ONE
• From the Archaic Monarchy to the Centralised State
• 1. The Archaic Monarchy
• 2 The Age of the Principalities
• 3 The Formation of the Centralised State
• 4 The Heritage of Antiquity
• PART TWO
• Rise, Evolution and Decline of the First Centralised State
• Prologue
• 5 The Conquering Empire
• 6 Causes and Consequences of the Expansion
• 7 The Rise of Gentry and the Crisis in Political Institutions
• 8 The Vivilisation of the Han Age
• PART THREE
• The Middle Ages
• Prologue
• 9 Barbarians and Aristocrats
• 10 The Medieval Civilisation
• PART FOUR
• From the Middle Ages to Modern Times
• 11 The Aristocratic Empire
• 12 The Transition to the Mandarin Empire
• 13 From the Opening up to the World to the Return to the Sources of the Classical Tradition
• PART FIVE
• The Chinese 'Renaissance'
• Prologue
• 14 The New World
• 15 The Civilisation of the Chinese 'Renaissance'
• PART SIX
• From the Sinicised Empires to the Mongol Occupation
• Prologue
• 16 The Sinicised Empires
• 17 The Mongol Invasion and Occupation
• Tables in Volume I
• VOLUME II
• PART SEVEN
• The Reign of the Autocrats and Eunnuchs
• Prologue
• 18 Reconstruction and Expansion
• 19 Political, Social, and Economic Changes
• 20 The Beginnings of Modern China and the Crisis at the End of the Ming Dynasty
• 21 Intellectual Life in the Ming Age
• PART EIGHT
• Authoritarian Paternalism
• Prologue
• 22 The Conquest and the Foundations of the Manchu Regime
• 23 The Enlightened Despots
• 24 Intellectual Life from the Middle of the Seventeenth Century to the end of the Eighteenth Century
• PART NINE
• From Decline to Takeover
• Prologue
• 25 The Great Recession
• 26 The Social Expansion and its Consequences
• 27 The Failure of Modernisation and the Advance of Foreign Intrusion
• 28 Intellectual Currents in the Nineteenth Century
• PART TEN
• China Crucified
• Prologue
• 29 The Disintegration of the Traditional Economy and Society
• 30 Political Developments in the First Half of the Twentieth Century
• 31 Philosophical and Literary Developments
• PART ELEVEN
• A new Chapter in Chinese History: The People's Republic of China
• Prologue
• Tables in Volume II
• General Chronology
• Bibliography
• Index