Table of Contents

Prefaces
List of Maps
A Note on the Text
Major Chronological Periods
Conversion Tables
1: A Conceptual Framework of Modern China
I. The Persistence of Traditional Institutions, 1600-1800
2: The Rise and Splendor of the Ch'ing Empire
3: Political and Economic Institutions
4: Social and Intellectual Conditions
5: Foreign Relations
6: The Turn of the Dynastic Fortune: From Prosperity to Decline
II. Foreign Aggresion and Domestic Rebellions, 1800-1864
7: The Canton System of Trade
8: The Opium War
9: The Second Treaty Settlement
10: The Taiping Revolution and the Nien and Moslem Rebellions
III. Self-stregthening in an Age of Accelerated Foreign Imperialism
11: The Dynastic Revival and the Self-Stregthening Movement
12: Foreign Relations and Court Politics, 1861-80
13: Foreign Encroachment in Formosa, Sinkiang, and Annam
14: Acceleration of Imperialism: The Japanese Aggression in Korea and the "Partition of China"
IV. Reform and Revolution, 1898-1912
15: The Reform Movement of 1898
16: The Boxer Uprising, 1900
17: Reform and Constitutionalism at the End of the Ch'ing Period
18: Late Ch'ing Intellectual, Social, and Economic Changes with Special Reference to 1895-1911
19: The Ch'ing Period in Historical Perspective
20: Revolution, Republic, and Warlordism
V. Ideological Awakening and the War of Resistance
21: The Intellectual Revolution, 1917-23
22: National Unification Amidst Ideological Ferment and Anti-imperialistic Agitation
23: The Nationalist Government: A Decade of Challenge, 1928-37
24: The Sino-Japanese War, 1937-45
VI. The Rise of the Chinese People's Republic
25: The Civil War, 1945-49
26: The People's Republic: It's First Decade
27: The Sino-Soviet Split
28: The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution
29: The Fall of Lin Pao and Its Aftermath
30: China Rejoins the International Community
31: The Nationalist Rule on Taiwan
VII. China After Mao: The Search for a New Order
32: The Smashing of the Gang of Four
33: Teng Hsiao-p'ing and China's New Order
34: The Normalization of Relations Between China and the United States
35: The Four Modernizations
36: The End of the Maoist Age
37: Building Socialism with Chinese Characteristics
38: China In Transition, 1986-88: The Cultural Impact of the Open-Door Policy
39: Taiwan's "Economic Miracle" and the Prospect for Unification with Mainland China
40: The Violent Crackdown at T'ien-an-men Square, June 3-4, 1989
41: The Chinese Model of Development: Quasi-capitalism in a Political Dictatorship
42: The Rise of Cina
Appendix I
Appendix II
Illustration Credits
Index