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List of Maps | |
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List of Tables | |
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Preface | |
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Acknowledgments | |
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The Use of Pinyin | |
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Conquest and Consolidation | |
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The Late Ming | |
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The Glory of the Ming | |
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Town and Farm | |
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Corruption and Hardship | |
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The Ming Collapse | |
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The Manchu Conquest | |
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The Rise of the Qing | |
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Conquering the Ming | |
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Adapting to China | |
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Class and Resistance | |
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Kangxi's Consolidation | |
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The War of the Three Feudatories, 1673-1681 | |
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Taiwan and Maritime China | |
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Wooing the Intellectuals | |
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Defining the Borders | |
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A Mixed Legacy | |
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Yongzheng's Authority | |
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Qing Power and Taxation in the Countryside | |
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The Center and Channels of Power | |
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Moral Authority | |
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Chinese Society and the Reign of Qianlong | |
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Social Pressures and Population Growth | |
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"Like the sun at Midday" | |
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Eighteenth-Century Confucianism | |
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The Dream of the Red Chamber | |
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Qianlong's Later Years | |
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China and the Eighteenth-Century World | |
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Managing the Foreigners | |
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Aliens and Chinese Law | |
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Opium | |
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Western Images of China | |
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Fragmentation and Reform | |
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The First Clash with the West | |
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The Response of China's Scholars | |
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China's Political Response | |
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Britain's Military Response | |
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The New Treaty System | |
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The Crisis Within | |
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Social Dislocation North and South | |
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The Taiping | |
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Foreign Pressures and Marx's Views | |
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The Nian Rebellion | |
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Muslim Revolts | |
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Restoration through Reform | |
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Confucian Reform | |
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Defining Foreign Policy | |
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The Missionary Presence | |
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Overseas Chinese | |
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New Tensions in the Late Qing | |
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Self-Strengthening and the Japanese War | |
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The Reform Movement of 1898 | |
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Three Sides of Nationalism | |
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Emerging Forces | |
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The End of the Dynasty | |
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The Qing Constitution | |
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New Railways, New Army | |
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Nationalists and Socialists | |
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Qing Fall | |
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Envisioning State and Society | |
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The New Republic | |
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Experiment in Democracy | |
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The Rule of Yuan Shikai | |
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Militarists in China and Chinese in France | |
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The Political Thinking of Sun Yat-Sen | |
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"A Road Is Made" | |
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The Warning Voice of Social Darwinism | |
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The Promise of Marxism | |
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The Facets of May Fourth | |
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The Comintern and the Birth of the Ccp | |
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The Industrial Sector | |
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The Clash | |
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The Initial Alliance | |
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Launching the Northern Expedition | |
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Shanghai Spring | |
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Wuhan Summer, Canton Winter | |
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Experiments in Government | |
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The Power Base of Chiang Kai-Shek | |
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Mao Zedong and the Rural Soviets | |
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China and the United States | |
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China and Japan | |
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China and Germany | |
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The Drift to War | |
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The Long March | |
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The National Mood and Guomindang Ideology | |
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Crisis at Xi'an | |
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The Chinese Poor | |
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War and Revolution | |
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World War II | |
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The Loss of East China | |
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China Divided | |
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Chongqing and Yan'an, 1938-1941 | |
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Chongqing and Yan'an in the Widening War | |
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War's End | |
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The Fall of the Guomindang State | |
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The Japanese Surrender and the Marshall Mission | |
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Land Reform and the Manchurian Base | |
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The Losing Battle with Inflation | |
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Defeat of the Guomindang Armies | |
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The Birth of the People's Republic | |
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Countryside and Town, 1949-1950 | |
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The Structure of the New Government | |
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The Korean War | |
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Mass Party, Mass Campaigns | |
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Planning the New Society | |
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The First Five-Year Plan | |
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Foreign Policy and the National Minorities | |
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Army Reform | |
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The Hundred Flowers | |
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Deepening the Revolution | |
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The Great Leap Forward | |
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The Sino-Soviet Rift | |
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Political Investigation and "Socialist Education" | |
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The Cult of Mao and the Critics | |
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Launching the Cultural Revolution | |
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Party Retrenchment and the Death of Lin Biao | |
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Living in the World | |
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Reopening the Doors | |
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The United States and the Nixon Visit | |
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Attacking Confucius and Lin Biao | |
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Defining the Economy, 1974-1975 | |
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1976: the Old Guard Dies | |
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Redefining Revolution | |
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The Four Modernizations | |
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The Fifth Modernization | |
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Taiwan and the Special Economic Zones | |
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"Truth From Facts" | |
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Levels of Power | |
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One Billion People | |
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Governing China in the 1980s | |
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The Problems of Prosperity, 1983-1984 | |
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Rebuilding the Law | |
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Testing the Limits | |
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Emerging Tensions in 1985 | |
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Democracy's Chorus | |
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Broadening the Base | |
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Social Strains | |
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The Breaking Point | |
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Notes and Permissions | |
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Further Readings | |
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Glossary | |
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About the Color Illustrations | |
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Illustration Credits | |
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A Note on the Calligraphy | |
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Index | |
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Map: China During the Late Ming | |
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Map: Contemporary China | |