CHINA

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Second Enlarged Edition
John King Fairbank was the West’s doyen on China, and this book is the full and final expression of his lifelong engagement with this vast ancient civilization. It remains a masterwork without parallel. The distinguished historian Merle Goldman brings the book up to date, covering reforms in the post-Mao period through the early years of the twenty-first century, including the leadership of Hu Jintao. She also provides an epilogue discussing the changes in contemporary China that will shape the nation in the years to come. (From the publisher)

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INTRODUCTION: Approaches to Understanding China's History
PART I. RISE AND DECLINE OF THE IMPERIAL AUTOCRACY
1. Origins: The Discoveries of Archaeology
2. The First Unification: Imperial Confucianism
3. Reunification in the Buddhist Age
4. China's Greatest Age: Northern and Southern Song
5. The Paradox of Song China and Inner Asia
6. Government in the Ming Dynasty
7. The Qing Success Story
PART II. LATE IMPERIAL CHINA, 1600-1911
8. The Paradox of Growth without Development
9. Frontier Unrest and the Opening of China
10. Rebellion and Restoration
11. Early Modernization and the Decline of Qing Power
12. The Republican Revolution, 1901-1916
PART III. THE REPUBLIC OF CHINA, 1912-1949
13. The Quest for a Chinese Civil Society
14. The Nationalist Revolution and the Nanjing Government
15. The Second Coming of the Chinese Communist Party
16. China's War of Resistance, 1937-1945
PART IV. THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA
18. Establishing Control of State and Countryside
19. The Great Leap Forward, 1958-1960
20. The Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976
21. The Post-Mao Reform Era [by Merle Goldman]
EPILOGUE: China at the Close of the Century [by Merle Goldman]