From the Book - Fourth edition.
1. The land and the people of China
2. Origins and early history
Zhou dynasty : 1027-221 B.C.
4. Religion and philosophy
5. Unification and expansion
Qin dynasty : 221-206 B.C.
Han dynasty : 206 B.C.-A.D. 221
6. Outsiders, generals, and eccentrics
The six dynasties period : A.D. 222- 589
7. The flowering of Chinese civilization
8. The Chinese enter on their modern times
Five dynasties : 907-960, North China
Ten kingdoms : 907-970, South China
Jin dynasty (Jurchen) : 1126-1234, North China
Southern Song dynasty : 1127-1279, South China
9. The Mongol interruption
10. The restoration and consolidation of Chinese rule
11. The Manzhou : summit and decline of the empire
12. The impact of the West in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
13. The republican revolution 1900-1949
14. The communist revolution 1949-1965
15. The cultural revolution and its aftermath 1966-1978
16. Deng Xiaoping and the reform era 1978-1992
17. The party, greater China, and the wider world 1993-2003