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I. Conquest and Consolidation
1. The Late Ming
The Glory of the Ming
Town and Farm
Corruption and Hardship
The Ming Collapse
2. The Manchu Conquest
The Rise of the Qing
Conquering the Ming
Adapting to China
Class and Resistance
3. Kangxi’s Consolidation
The War of the Three Feudatories, 1673–1681
Taiwan and Maritime China
Wooing the Intellectuals
Defining the Borders
A Mixed Legacy
4. Yongzheng’s Authority
Economic Structures
The Question of Taxes
The Center and Channels of Power
Moral Authority
5. Chinese Society and the Reign of Qianlong
"Like the sun at Midday"
Eighteenth-Century Confucianism
The Dream of the Red Chamber
Qianlong’s Later Years
6. China and the Eighteenth-Century World
Managing the Foreigners
Aliens and Chinese Law
Opium
Western Images of China
II. Fragmentation and Reform
7. The First Clash with the West
The Response of China’s Scholars
China’s Political Response
Britain’s Military Response
The New Treaty System
8. The Crisis Within
Social Dislocation North and South
The Taiping
Foreign Pressures
The Nian Rebellion
Muslim Revolts
9. Restoration through Reform
Confucian Reform
Defining Foreign Policy
The Missionary Presence
Overseas Chinese
10. New Tensions in the Late Qing
Self-Strengthening and the Japanese War
The Reform Movement of 1898
Three Sides of Nationalism
Emerging Forces
11. The End of the Dynasty
The Qing Constitution
New Railways, New Army
Nationalists and Socialists
Qing Fall
III. Envisioning State and Society
12. The New Republic
Experiment in Democracy
The Rule of Yuan Shikai
Militarists in China and Chinese in France
13. "A Road Is Made"
The Warning Voice of Social Darwinism
Marxist Stirrings
The Facets of May Fourth
The Comintern and the Birth of the Ccp
14. The Fractured Alliance
The Initial Agreement
Launching the Northern Expedition
Shanghai Spring
Wuhan Summer, Canton Winter
15. The Guomindang in Power
Guomindang Government
Culture and Ideology
China and the United States
China and Japan
16. Communist Survival
The Chinese Poor
Mao Zedong and the Rural Soviets
The Long March
Crisis at Xi’an
IV. War and Revolution
17. World War II
The Loss of East China
China Divided
Chongqing and Yan’an, 1938–1941
Chongqing and Yan’an in the Widening War
War’s End
18. The Fall of the Guomindang State
The Japanese Surrender and the Marshall Mission
Land Reform and the Manchurian Base
The Losing Battle with Inflation
Defeat of the Guomindang Armies
19. The Birth of the People’s Republic
Countryside and Town, 1949–1950
The Structure of the New Government
The Korean War
Mass Party, Mass Campaigns
20. Planning the New Society
The First Five-Year Plan
Foreign Policy and the National Minorities
Army Reform
The Hundred Flowers
21. Deepening the Revolution
The Great Leap Forward
The Sino-Soviet Rift
Political Investigation and "Socialist Education"
22. Cultural Revolution
The Cult of Mao and the Critics
Launching the Cultural Revolution
Party Retrenchment and the Death of Lin Biao
V. Re-Entering the World
23. Reopening the Doors
The United States and the Nixon Visit
Attacking Confucius and Lin Biao
Defining the Economy, 1974–1975
1976: the Old Guard Dies
24. Redefining Revolution
The Four Modernizations
The Fifth Modernization
Taiwan and the Special Economic Zones
"Truth From Facts"
25. Levels of Power
One Billion People
Governing China in the 1980s
The Problems of Prosperity, 1983–1984
Rebuilding the Law
26. Testing the Limits
Democracy’s Chorus
Broadening the Base
Social Strains
The Breaking Point
27. Century’s End
Returning to Growth
Zones and Games
Little Dragons
Into the Sea
Deng’s Passing
Notes and Permissions
Further Readings
Glossary
Illustration Credits
A Note on the Calligraphy
Index
Map: China During the Late Ming
Map: Contemporary China

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