| Contents |
Maps -- Tables -- Preface to the third edition -- Acknowledgments -- Use of Pinyin -- Conquest And Consolidation: -- Late Ming: -- Glory of the Ming -- Town and farm -- Corruption and hardship -- Ming collapse -- Manchu Conquest: -- Rise of the Qing -- Conquering the Ming -- Adapting to China -- Class and resistance -- Kangxi's Consolidation: -- War of the three feudatories, 1673-1681 -- Taiwan and maritime China -- Wooing the intellectuals -- Defining the borders -- Mixed legacy -- Yongzheng's Authority: -- Economic structures -- Question of taxes -- Center and channels of power -- Moral authority -- Chinese Society And The Reign Of Oianlong: -- Like the sun at midday -- Eighteenth-century -- Confucianism -- Dream of the red chamber -- Qianlong's later years -- China And The Eighteenth-Century World: -- Managing the foreigners -- Aliens and Chinese law -- Opium -- Western images of China -- Fragmentations And Reform: -- First clash with the West: -- Response of China's scholars -- China's political response -- Britain's military response -- New treaty system -- Crisis Within: -- Social dislocation North and South -- Taiping -- Foreign pressures -- Nian rebellion -- Muslim revolts -- Restoration Through Reform: -- Confucian reform -- Defining foreign policy -- Missionary presence -- Overseas Chinese -- End Of The Dynasty: -- Qing constitution -- New railways, new army -- Nationalists and socialists Qing fall -- Envisioning State And Society: -- New Republic: -- Experiment in democracy -- Rule of Yuan Shikai -- Militarists in China and Chinese in France -- Road Is Made: -- Warning voice of social Darwinism -- Marxist stirrings -- Facets of may fourth -- Comintern and the birth of the CCP -- Fractured Alliance: -- Initial agreement -- Launching the Northern expedition -- Shanghai spring -- Wuhan summer, Canton winter -- Guomindang In Power: -- Guomindang government -- Culture and ideology -- China and the United States -- China and Japan -- Communist Survival: -- Chinese poor -- Mao Zedong and the rural Soviets -- Long March -- Crisis at Xian -- War And Revolution: -- World War 2: -- Loss of East China -- China divided -- Chongqing and Yan'an, 1938-1941 -- Chongqing and Yan'an in the widening war -- War's end -- Fall Of The Guomindang State: -- Japanese surrender and the Marshall mission -- Land reform and the Manchurian base -- Losing battle with inflation -- Defeat of the Guomindang armies -- Birth Of The People's Republic: -- Countryside and town, 1949-1950 -- Structure of the new government -- Korean War -- Mass party, mass campaigns -- Planning The New Society: -- First five-year plan -- Foreign policy and the national minorities -- Army reform -- Hundred flowers -- Deepening The Revolution: -- Great leap forward -- Sino-soviet rift -- Political investigation and "socialist education -- Cultural Revolution: -- Cult of Mao and the critics -- Launching the cultural revolution -- Party retrenchment and the death of Lin Biao -- Re-Entering The World: -- Reopening the doors -- United States and the Nixon visit -- Attacking Confucius and Lin Biao -- Defining the economy, 1974-1975 -- 1976: the old guard dies -- Redefining Revolution: -- Four modernizations -- Fifth modernization Taiwan and the special economic zones -- Truth from facts -- Levels Of Power: -- One billion people -- Governing China in the 1980s -- Problems of prosperity 1983-1984 -- Rebuilding the law -- Testing The Limits: -- Democracy's chorus -- Broadening the base -- Social strains -- Braking point -- Century's End: -- Returning to growth -- Zones and games -- Little dragons -- Into the sea -- Deng's passing -- Breakthrough? -- Range of options -- Hu/Wen years -- Economic challenges -- Global preoccupations -- Cultural parameters -- Appendixes -- Notes and permissions -- Further readings -- Glossary -- Illustration credits -- Note on the calligraphy -- Index. |
| Abstract |
Book Description: This text, the classic introduction to modern China for students and general readers, emerged from Spence's highly successful introductory course at Yale, in which he traced the beginnings of modern China to internal developments beginning in the early 17th century. Strong on social and political history, as well as Chinese culture and its intersections with politics, this paperback is a longstanding leader in the survey course on modern China. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages A25-A52) and index. |
| LCCN | 2012041954 |
| ISBN | 9780393934519 (pbk.) |
| ISBN | 0393934519 (pbk.) |
| Standard identifier# |
40022004224 |
