A History of China by Wolfram Eberhard - HTML preview

Chapter X: THE PERIOD OF ABSOLUTISM

(A) The Mongol Epoch (1280-1368) 1 Beginning of new foreign rules 2 "Nationality legislation" 3

Military position 4 Social situation 5 Popular risings: National rising 6 Cultural

(B) The Ming Epoch (1368-1644)

1 Start. National feeling

2 Wars against Mongols and Japanese

3 Social legislation within the existing order

4 Colonization and agricultural developments

5 Commercial and industrial developments

6 Growth of the smal gentry

7 Literature, art, crafts

8 Politics at court

9 Navy. Southward expansion

10 Struggles between cliques

11 Risings

12 Machiavelism

13 Foreign relations in the sixteenth century

14 External and internal perils

(C) The Manchu Dynasty (1644-1911)

1 Instalation of the Manchus

2 Decline in the eighteenth century

3 Expansion in Central Asia; the first State treaty

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4 Culture

5 Relations with the outer world

6 Decline; revolts

7 European Imperialism in the Far East

8 Risings in Turkestan and within China: the T'ai P'ing Rebelion

9 Colision with Japan; further Capitulations

10 Russia in Manchuria

11 Reform and reaction: The Boxer Rising

12 End of the dynasty

Chapter XI: THE REPUBLIC (1912-1948)

1 Social and intelectual position 2 First period of the Republic: The warlords 3 Second period of the

Republic: Nationalist China 4 The Sino-Japanese war (1937-1945)