China

• Verfasst von: Tanner, Harold M.
• Titel: China
• Titelzusatz: a history
• Verf.angabe: Harold M. Tanner
• Verlagsort: Indianapolis [u.a.]
• Verlag: Hackett
• Jahr: 2009
• Umfang: XII, 610 S.
• Illustrationen: Ill., graph. Darst., Kt.
• Fussnoten: Includes bibliographical references and index
• ISBN: 978-0-87220-916-9
• ISBN: 978-0-87220-915-2
• ISBN: 0-87220-915-6
• Schlagwörter: (g)China / (z)Geschichte
• Schlagwörter: (g)China / (z)Geschichte
• Sprache: eng
• Sonstige Nr.: Identnummer: 2008043320
• RVK-Notation: NK 3400
• K10plus-PPN: 1621138356

Abstract

Part I. Creation of the Middle Kingdom -- From myth to history: the beginnings of the Chinese Middle Kingdom in the Xia, Shang, and Western Zhou dynasties -- The age of fighting and philosophy: the Eastern Zhou dynasty -- From feudal states to bureaucratic empire: Qin and Western Han dynasties -- The decline and fall of eastern civilizations: the Xin and Eastern Han dynasties -- Part II. The Middle Kingdom transformed -- The age of Buddhists and warriors: the Three Kingdoms, Western Jin, and the period of north-south division -- A multi-ethnic empire: the Sui and Tang dynasties -- Competing suns in heaven: the Song and its neighbors -- China in the Mongol empire: the Yuan dynasty -- Part III. A new Confucian empire -- A model government for the ages: the early to mid-Ming dynasty -- Wealth and instability: the mid and late Ming dynasty -- A Manchu empire: the Qing dynasty to 1799 -- The Qing dynasty's nineteenth century crises -- Part IV. The road to wealth and power -- Struggling to build a nation: the 1911 revolution and the early Republic, 1912-1926 -- Years of turmoil: China under Jiang Jieshi's Guomindang government -- The People's Republic of China: the Mao era -- The march toward wealth and power