Table of Contents
New coauthor Janet Chen has thoroughly revised this beloved text in its Fourth Edition. Chen’s expertise and revisions focus on social and cultural history to balance the strong political core of the text to present the latest view of modern China.
1. The Late Ming
2. The Manchu Conquest
3. Kangxi’s Consolidation
4. Yongzheng’s Authority
5. Chinese Society and the Reign of Qianlong
6. China and the Eighteenth-Century World
7. The First Clash with the West
8. The Crisis Within
9. Restoration through Reform
10. New Tensions in the Late Qing
11. The End of the Dynasty
12. The New Republic
13. “A Road Is Made”
14. The Fractured Alliance
15. The Guomindang in Power
16. Communist Survival
17. World War II
18. The Civil War, 1945–1949
19. The Birth of the People’s Republic
20. Planning the New Society
21. Deepening the Revolution
22. Cultural Revolution
23. Reopening the Doors
24. Redefining Revolution
25. Levels of Power
26. Testing the Limits
27. Century’s End
28. Breakthrough?
Epilogue
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