An Outline History of China (Bai Shouyi, Fang Linggui, Gong Shuduo, Yang Zhao, Zhu Zhongyu)

An Outline History of China
An Outline History of China
Author	Bai Shouyi, Fang Linggui, Gong Shuduo, Yang Zhao, Zhu Zhongyu
First published	1982; Beijing
Type	Book
PDF	First Edition; Second Edition

Introduction

A Land of 9,600,000 Square Kilometers

Fifty-five Nationalities and a Population of Nearly 1,000,000,000

1,700,000 Years and 3,600 Years

Traces of Remote Antiquity

From Yuanmou Man to Peking Man; the Making of Tools and the Use of Fire

Dingcun (Tingtsun) Man and Upper Cave Man; the Improvement of Tools and the Emergence of Ornaments

The Yangshao Culture and Its Matriarchal Communes

The Patriarchal Clan Society of the Longshan Culture

Myth and Legend

The Legends of Ancient Tribes

Tribal Chiefs, Gods and Their Sons

The Hereditary Monarchy of the Xia Dynasty

The Slave State of the Shang and Zhou Dynasties

The Earliest Written History

The Slave-Owning Shang Dynasty

The Social Economy of the Shang Dynasty

The Rise of the Zhou and the Establishment of the Slave-Owning Zhou Dynasty

Economic Development Under Zhou Slavery

The Zhou Dynasty from Prosperity to Decline

The Early Eastern Zhou, Spring and Autumn, and Warring States Periods: Transition from Slavery to Feudalism

The Early Eastern Zhou and the Spring and Autumn Period: Contention for Supremacy Among the Major States

The Seven Powers of the Warring States Period

The Transition from Slavery to Feudalism

Confucius, Mo Zi, Other Thinkers and the Elegies of Chu

The Qin and Han Dynasties: the Growth of Feudal Society

The Qin, China’s First Feudal Dynasty

Peasant Uprisings in the Late Qin Dynasty

Establishment and Consolidation of the Western Han Dynasty

Golden Age of the Western Han Dynasty

Decline of the Western Han Dynasty; Uprisings of the Green Woodsmen and Red Eyebrows

The Establishment of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Prolonged Turbulence, and the Yellow Turban Uprising

The Development of Social Productive Forces

The Growth of Feudal Relations

The Three Kingdoms, the Jin, the Southern and Northern Dynasties, the Sui and the Tang: the Earlier Period of Ascendancy of Chinese Feudalism

The Three Kingdoms

The Western Jin, the Eastern Jin and the Sixteen States

The Southern and Northern Dynasties

The Establishment of the Sui Dynasty and the Peasant Uprisings in Its Closing Years

The Golden Age of the Tang

Turmoil in the Mid-Tang Period

The Decline of the Tang Empire and the Late-Tang Peasant Uprisings

The Development of Social Productive Forces

The Development of Feudal Relations and the Feudalization of Regions Inhabited by Several Nationalities

The Five Dynasties, the Song and the Yuan: the Later Period of Ascendancy of Chinese Feudalism

The Five Dynasties and Ten States

Rise and Fall of the Northern Song; Uprisings by Wang Xiaobo and Fang La

The Liao, the Xia and the Jin: Their Relations with the Northern Song

Rival Regimes of the Song and the Jin; Uprisings by Zhong Xiang, Yang Yao and the Red Jackets

The Rise of the Mongols and the Fall of the Xia, the Jin and the Southern Song

Founding of the Yuan Dynasty and Peasant Uprisings During the Late Yuan

Further Growth of Social Productivity; Southward Shift of Economic Development

Further Development of Feudal Relations; Feudalization of the Border Regions

China’s Communications with the Outside World

The Ming-Qing Period: the Twilight of Feudalism

Establishment of the Ming Dynasty

Decline of the Ming Dynasty; Refugee and Miner Uprisings

Decay of the Ming Dynasty; Peasant Uprisings Continued

Rise of the Manchus; Peasant Uprisings Towards the End of the Ming; Fall of the Ming Dynasty

Peasant Regime of the Great Shun; Princes of the Southern Ming; Unification Activities During the Early Qing Dynasty

Qing Rule Strengthened

Decline of the Qing; Uprisings of Different Nationalities

The Decline of Feudalism and the Emergence of Sprouts of Capitalism

Arrival of Western Colonialism

Semi-Colonial and Semi-Feudal Society; The Old Democratic Revolution

The Opium War

The Taiping Peasant War

The Second Opium War; Russia’s Occupation of Chinese Territory

The Later Period of the Taiping Peasant War

Culture and Learning After the Opium War

Foreign Economic Aggression and the Official “Westernization” Drive

The Proletariat and the National Bourgeoisie in the Early Days; The Spread of Modern Western Science

Foreign Aggression and China’s Border Crises

The Sino-Japanese War and Imperialist Partition of China

The Modernization Movement of the Bourgeois Reformists

The Anti-Imperialist Patriotic Movement of the Yi He Tuan

The Rise of the Bourgeois Revolutionary Movement

The Founding of the Tong Meng Hui

The Wuchang Uprising; The Founding of the Republic of China and the Fall of the Qing Dynasty

The Period of Beiyang Warlord Rule

Ideology and Culture During the Period of Bourgeois Revolution

The Dawn of the Chinese Revolution