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A History of China
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Newark :
John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated,
2013.
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| Colección: | New York Academy of Sciences Ser.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- A History of China
- Copyright
- Contents
- Series Editor's Preface
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- List of Illustrations
- List of Maps
- A Note on Romanization
- Part I China among "Barbarians"
- 1 Early History, to 1027 BCE
- Land and Settlement
- Early Mankind
- Agricultural Revolution in the Neolithic Era
- Xia: The First Dynasty?
- The Shang and the Origins of Chinese Civilization
- Oracle Bones
- Ritual Objects as Historical Sources
- Shang Society
- Notes
- Further Reading
- 2 Classical China, 1027-256 BCE
- "Feudalism"?
- Changes in Social Structure
- Political Instability in the Eastern Zhou
- Transformations in the Economy
- Hundred Schools of Thought
- Daoism
- Popular Religions
- Confucianism
- Mohism
- Legalism
- Book of Odes and Book of Documents
- Secularization of Arts
- Notes
- Further Reading
- 3 The First Chinese Empires, 221 BCE-220 CE
- Development of the Qin State
- Qin Achievements
- Failures of the Qin
- Han and New Institutions
- Han Foreign Relations
- Emperor Wu's Domestic Policies and Their Ramifications
- Wang Mang: Reformer or Usurper?
- Restoration of a Weaker Han Dynasty
- Spiritual and Philosophical Developments in the Han
- Han Literature and Art
- Further Reading
- 4 Chaos and Religious and Political Responses, 220-581
- Three Kingdoms
- Rise of South China
- Foreigners and North China
- Northern Wei
- Spiritual Developments, Post-Han
- Buddhism Enters China
- Literature, Science, and the Arts in a Period of Division
- Notes
- Further Reading
- Part II China among Equals
- 5 Restoration of Empire under Sui and Tang, 581-907
- Sui: First Step in Restoration
- Disastrous Foreign Campaigns
- Origins of the Tang
- Taizong: The Greatest Tang Emperor
- Tang Expansionism
- Irregular Successions and the Empress Wu
- Tang Cosmopolitanism
- Arrival of Foreign Religions
- Glorious Tang Arts
- Decline of the Tang
- Tang Faces Rebellions
- Uyghur Empire and Tang
- Tang's Continuing Decline
- Suppression of Buddhism
- Final Collapse
- Efflorescence of Tang Culture
- Notes
- Further Reading
- 6 Post-Tang Society and the Glorious Song, 907-1279
- Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms
- Song: A Lesser Empire
- A New Song Elite
- Neo-Confucianism: A New Philosophy
- Attempts at Reform
- Women and the Song
- The Khitans and the Liao Dynasty
- Expansion of Khitan Territory
- Preservation of Khitan Identity
- Fall of the Liao
- Xia and Jin: Two Foreign Dynasties
- Song Arts
- Southern Song Economic and Cultural Sophistication and Political Instability
- Notes
- Further Reading
- Part III China and the Mongol World
- 7 Mongol Rule in China, 1234-1368
- Rise of Chinggis Khan
- Legacy of Chinggis Khan
- Expansion and Early Rule of Empire
- Sorghaghtani Beki, Möngke, and Khubilai
- Unification of China
- Khubilai's Policies
- Multiethnic and Multireligious China
- Khubilai and Chinese Culture
- Decline of the Yuan