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  • Foreword by Edwin O. Reischauer
  • Preface, 1983, by John K. Fairbank
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • 1 The Chinese Scene
  • The Contrast of North and South
  • China's Origins
  • The Harmony of Man and Nature
  • Part I The Old Order
  • 2 The Nature of Chinese Society
  • Social Structure
  • Early China as an Oriental Society
  • The Gentry Class
  • The Chinese Written Language
  • The Scholar
  • Nondevelopment of Capitalism
  • The Merchant
  • 3 The Confucian Pattern
  • Confucian Principles
  • The Classical Orthodoxy
  • Chinese Militarism
  • Individualism, Chinese StyleThe Nondevelopment of Science
  • 4 Alien Rule and Dynastic Cycles
  • Nomad Conquest
  • The First Sino-Foreign Empires
  • The Manchu Achievement
  • The Dynastic Cycle
  • 5 The Political Tradition
  • Bureaucracy
  • Law
  • Religion
  • Chinese Humanism
  • Folk Sects and Peasant Rebellion
  • Part II The Revolutionary Process
  • 6 The Western Invasion
  • European versus Chinese Expansion
  • China's Impact on Europe
  • The Tribute System
  • The Treaty System
  • The Demographic Disaster
  • 7 Rebellion and Restoration
  • The White Lotus as a PrototypeThe Taiping Heavenly Kingdom
  • The Nien and Other Rebels
  • The Restoration of Confucian Government
  • 8 Reform and Revolution
  • The Self-Strengthening Movement
  • Imperialism and Reform in 1898
  • Revolutionaries versus Reformers
  • Dynastic Reform and Republican Revolution
  • 9 The Rise of the Kuomintang
  • The Search for a New Order
  • The May Fourth Movement
  • The Nationalist Revolution
  • 10 The Nanking Government
  • Political Development
  • The Rise of Chiang Kai-shek
  • Progress toward Industrialization
  • Local Government11 The Rise of the Communist Party
  • Vicissitudes of the First Decade
  • The Rise of Mao Tse-tung
  • Wartime Ideological Development
  • Part III Tlle United States and the People's Republic
  • 12 Our Inherited China Policy
  • American Expansion and Britain's Empire
  • The American Ambivalence about China
  • The Evolution of the Open Door
  • America's Contribution and the Fate of Liberalism
  • 13 United States Policy and the Nationalist Defeat
  • American Aid and Mediation
  • The Nationalist Debacle
  • The Loss of China in America
  • Our Ally Taiwan14 The People's Republic: Establishing the New Order
  • Political Control
  • Economic Reconstruction
  • Social Reorganization
  • The Korean War and Soviet Aid
  • 15 The Struggle for Socialist Transformation
  • Collectivization of Agriculture
  • The First Five-Year Plan
  • The Struggles with Intellectuals and with Cadres
  • China in the World Scene
  • The Great Leap Forward
  • The Communes
  • 16 The Second Revolution
  • Mao and His Opponents
  • The Sino-Soviet Split
  • The Growth of Bureaucratic Evils