The Rise of Modern China

Preface
	Preface to the First Edition
	Contents
	Maps
	A Note on the Text
	Major Chronological Periods
	Conversion Tables of Currencies/ Weights, and Measures
1 A Conceptual Framework of Modem China
I. The Persistence of Traditional Institutions, 1600-1800
	2 The Rise and Splendor of the Ch\'ing Empire
	3 Political and Economic Institutions
	4 Social and Intellectual Conditions
	5 Foreign Relations
	6 The Turn of Dynastic Fortune: From Prosperity to Decline
II. Foreign Aggression and Domestic Rebellions 1800-1864
	7 The Canton System of Trade
	8 The Opium War
	9 The Second Treaty Settlement
	10 The Taiping Revolution and the Nien and Moslem Rebellions
III. Self-strengthening in an Age of Accelerated Foreign Imperialism 1861-95
	11 The Dynastic Revival and the Self-strengthening Movement
	12 Foreign Relations and Court Politics, 1861-80
	13 Foreign Encroachment in Formosa, Sinkiang, and Annam
	14 Acceleration of Imperialism: The Japanese Aggression in Korea and the \"Partition of China\"
IV. Reform and Revolution 1898-1912
	15 The Reform Movement of 1898
	16 The Boxer Uprising, 1900
	17 Reform and Constitutionalism at the End of the Ch\'ing Period
	18 Late Ch\'ing Intellectual/ Social, and Economic Changes/ with Special Reference to 1895-1911
	19 The Ch\'ing Period in Historical Perspective
	20 Revolution/ Republic, and Warlordism
V. Ideological Awakening and the War of Resistance 1917-45
	21 The Intellectual Revolution, 1917-23
	22 National Unification Amidst Ideological Ferment and Anti-imperialistic Agitation
	23 The Nationalist Government: A Decade of Challenges, 1928-37
	24 The Sino-Japanese Wat, 1937-45
VI. Rise of the Chinese People\'s Republic
	25 The Civil War, 1945-49
	26 The People\'s Republic: Its First Decade
	27 The Sino-Soviet Split
	28 The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution
	29 The Fall of Lin Piao and Its Aftermath
	30 China Rejoins the International Community
	31 The Nationalist Rule on Taiwan
VII. China After Mao: The Search for a New Order
	32 The Smashing of the Gang of Four
	33 Teng Hsiao-p\'ing and China\'s New Order
	34 The Normalization of Relations Between China and the United States
	35 The Four Modernizations
	36 The End of the Maoist Age
	37 Building Socialism with Chinese Characteristics
	38 China in Transition/ 1986-88: The Cultural Impact of the Open-Door Policy
	39 Taiwan\'s \"Economic Miracle\" and the Prospect (or Unification with Mainland China
	40 The Violent Crackdown at T\'ien-an-men Square, June 3-4, 1989
	41 The Chinese Model of Development: Quasi-Capitalism in a Political Dictatorship
	42 The Rise of China
	Appendix I
	Appendix II
	Illustration Credits
	Index