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2013, The Search for Modern China 3rd edi., Jonathan D. Spence
Conquest & Consolidation
- the late Ming: the glory of the Ming, town & farm, corruption & hardship, the ming collapse
- the Manchu conquest: the rise of the Qing, conquering the Ming, adaption to China, class & resistance
- Kangxi's consolidation: the war of the three feudatories 1673-81, Taiwan & maritime China, wooing the intellectuals, defining the borders, a mixed legacy
- Yongzheng雍正's authority: economic structures, the question of taxes, the center and channels of power, moral authority
- Chinese society and the Reign of Qianlong乾隆: 'like the sun like the midday', eightenth-century confuciansim, The Dream of the Red Chamber红楼梦, Qianlong's late years
- China and the 18thc world: managinbg the foreigners, aliens and Chinese law, opium, western images of China
Fragmentation & reform
- the first clash with the West: the response of China's ccholars, China's political response, Britain's millitary response, the new treaty system
- the crisis within: social dislocation north and south, the Taiping, foreign pressures, the nian rebellion, muslim revolts
- resotration through reform: confucian reform, defining foreign policy, the missionary presence, overseas Chinese
- new tensions in the late Qing: self-strengtening and the Japanese war, the reform movement of 1898, three sides of nationalism, emerging forces
- the end of the dynasty: the Qing constitution, new railways, new army; nationalists and soclaists, Qing fall
Envisioning state and society
- the new Republic: experiment in democracy, the rule of Yuan Shikai, militarists in China and Chinese in France
- 'A Road is Made': the warning voice of social Darwinism, Maxist stirring, the facets of May Fourth五四运动, the comintern and the birth of the CCP.
- the fractured alliance: the initial agreement, launching the northern expendition, Shanghai spring, Wuhan summer, Canton winter
- the Guomingdang in power: Guomingdang government, culture and ideology, China and the United States, China and Japan
- communist survival: the Chinese poor, Mao Zedong and the rural soviets, the Long March, crisis at Xi'an
War and Revolution
- WWII: the loss of east China, China divided, Chongqing and Yan'an 1938-41, Chongqing and Yan'an in the widening war, war's end
- the fall of the Guomingdang state: the Japanese surrender and the marshall mission, land reform and the Manchurian base, the losing battle with inflation, defeat of the Guomingdang armies
- the birth of the People's Republic: countryside and towns 1949-50, the structure of the new government, the Korean War, mass party, mass campaigns
- planning the new society: the first Five-Year plan, foreign policy and the national minorties, army reform, the Hundred Flowers
- deepening the revolution: the Great Leap Forward, the sino-soviet rift, political investigation and 'socialist education'
- Cultural Revolution: the 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: the United States and the Nixon visit, attacking confucius and Lin Biao, defining the economy 1974-75, 1976: the Old Guard dies
- redifining revolution: the four modernisations, the fifth modernisation, Taiwan and the special economic zones, 'Truth from Facts'
- levels of power: one billion people, governing China in the 1980s, the problems of prosperity 1983-84, rebulding the law
- testing the limits: democracy's chorus, broadening the base, social strains, the breaking point
- century's end: returning to growth, zones and games, little dragons, into the sea, Deng's passing
- breakthrough? the range of options, the Hu/Wen years, the economic challenges, global preoccupations, cultural parameters
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