Dynastic China: An Elementary History
Subtitle: An Elementary History
Publisher: The Other Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Kuala Lumpur
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 533
ISBN-13: 9789839541885
Description: An Elementary History surveys four millennia of China’s history. It traced commentaries from the mythological period of Pangu, creator of the Chinese universe, and the Goddess Nuwa, creator of the Chinese people, through to the legendary periods of the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties to subsequent succeeding dynasties from the Qin Dynasty (221 BC) to the end of the Qing Dynasty (1912 AD).
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: List of Chinese Dynasties; title: List of Maps of Dynasties; title: CHAPTER 1: The Beginning to the Xia Dynasty 夏 朝 (2100–1700 BC); title: CHAPTER 2: Shang Dynasty 商 朝 (1700–1046 BC); title: CHAPTER 3: Zhou Dynasty 周 朝 (1122–256 BC); title: CHAPTER 4: Qin Dynasty 秦 朝 (221–207 BC); title: CHAPTER 5: Han Dynasty 汉 朝 (206 BC–220 AD); title: PART 1: Western Han Dynasty 西 汉 朝 (206 BC–9 AD); title: PART 2: Xin Dynasty (9–24 AD) & Eastern Han Dynasty (25–220 AD); title: PART 3: Frontier relations; title: CHAPTER 6: Six Dynasties 六 朝 (220–589 AD) and Three Kingdoms Period 三 国 时 代 (220–280 AD); title: CHAPTER 7: Sui Dynasty 隋 朝 (589–618 AD); title: CHAPTER 8: Tang Dynasty 唐 朝 (618–907 AD); title: CHAPTER 9: Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms 五 代 十 国 (907–960/979 AD); title: CHAPTER 10: Liao Dynasty 辽 朝 (907–1125 AD) (Khitan Empire 契 丹 国 (907–1125 AD); title: CHAPTER 11: Jin Dynasty 金 朝 (1115–1234 AD) and Western Xia Dynasty 西 夏 朝 (1038–1227 AD); title: PART 1: Jin Dynasty 金 朝 (1115–1234 AD); title: PART 2: Western Xia Dynasty 西 夏 朝 (1038–1227 AD); title: CHAPTER 12: Song Dynasty 宋 朝 (960–1279 AD); title: PART 1: Northern Song Dynasty (960–1127 AD); title: PART 2: Southern Song (1127–1279 AD)	287; title: CHAPTER 13: Yuan Dynasty 元 朝 (1271–1368 AD); title: CHAPTER 14: The Ming Dynasty 明 朝 (1368–1644 AD); title: CHAPTER 15: The Qing Dynasty 清 朝 (1644–1911 AD); title: PART 1: 1644–1861	375; title: PART 2: Last Fifty Years—Reign of the Dowagers (1861–1912); title: EPILOGUE: Future from the Past—Salient aspects of Dynastic China; title: Tian Xia in Chinese Cosmology; title: Index