The story of China : a portrait of a civilisation and its people /
Wood, Michael,1948-author.
Prologue: Beijing, December 1899 -- Roots -- The Great War of the Shang -- The mandate of Heaven -- The First Emperor and the Unification of China -- The Han Empire -- The Glory of the Tang -- Decline and fall -- The five dynasties -- The song renaissance -- The fall of the Northern Song -- The Southern Song, 1127-1279 -- The Yuan : China under the Mongol Empire -- The Ming -- The last days of the Ming -- The great Qing : the long eighteenth century -- The Opium Wars and the Taiping -- The Great Chinese Revolution, 1850-1950 -- The age of reform : from the Republic to Mao -- The rise of the New China.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Civilization.