China
Subtitle: a history
By: Harold M. Tanner.
Publisher: Hackett Pub. Co.; Brand: Hackett Pub Co; Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Indianapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 624
ISBN-13: 9780872209152; 9780872209169
Subjects: China -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I. Creation of the Middle Kingdom; title: From myth to history: the beginnings of the Chinese Middle Kingdom in the Xia, Shang, and Western Zhou dynasties; title: The age of fighting and philosophy: the Eastern Zhou dynasty; title: From feudal states to bureaucratic empire: Qin and Western Han dynasties; title: The decline and fall of eastern civilizations: the Xin and Eastern Han dynasties; title: Part II. The Middle Kingdom transformed; title: The age of Buddhists and warriors: the Three Kingdoms, Western Jin, and the period of north-south division; title: A multi-ethnic empire: the Sui and Tang dynasties; title: Competing suns in heaven: the Song and its neighbors; title: China in the Mongol empire: the Yuan dynasty; title: Part III. A new Confucian empire; title: A model government for the ages: the early to mid-Ming dynasty; title: Wealth and instability: the mid and late Ming dynasty; title: A Manchu empire: the Qing dynasty to 1799; title: The Qing dynasty's nineteenth century crises; title: Part IV. The road to wealth and power; title: Struggling to build a nation: the 1911 revolution and the early Republic, 1912-1926; title: Years of turmoil: China under Jiang Jieshi's Guomindang government; title: The People's Republic of China: the Mao era; title: The march toward wealth and power.