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| The Bronze Age: Shang and Western Zhou (ca. 1500-771 B.C.E.) | |
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| The Geography of the Chinese Subcontinent | |
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| The Shang Dynasty (ca. 1500-1045 B.C.E.) | |
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| Developments Outside the Shang Core | |
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| The Western Zhou Dynasty (1045-771 B.C.E.) | |
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| Philosophers and Warring States During the Eastern Zhou (770-256 B.C.E.) | |
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| The Multistate System of the Eastern Zhou | |
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| Warfare and Its Consequences | |
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| The Hundred Schools of Thought | |
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| Warring States Literature and Art: The Case of Chu | |
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| The Founding of the Bureaucratic Empire: Qin and Han (256 B.C.E.-200 B.C.E.) | |
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| The Qin Unification (256-206 B.C.E.) | |
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| The Han Dynasty (206 B.C.E.-220 C.E.) | |
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| Intellectual, Literary, and Religious Currents | |
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| Chinese Society in Han Times | |
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| Central Asia and the Silk Road | |
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| Borderlands | |
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| Maintaining the Empire. | |
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| Political Division (200-580) | |
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| The Three Kingdoms (220-265) and the Western Jin Dynasty (265-316) | |
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| Non-Chinese Dominance in the North | |
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| The Southern Dynasties and Aristocratic Culture | |
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| The Buddhist Conquest of China | |
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| Daoist Religion | |
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| The Cosmopolitan Empires of Sui and Tang (581-960) | |
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| The Northwest Military Aristocracy and the Sui Reunification of China | |
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| The Founding of the Tang Dynasty (618-907) | |
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| The Tang at Its Height | |
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| The Rebellion of An Lushan and Its Aftermath | |
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| The Achievements of Tang Men of Letters | |
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| The Dunhuang Documents | |
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| The Tang Dynasty's Final Decades and the Five Dynasties | |
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| China Among Equals: Song, Liao, Xia, and Jin (907-1276) | |
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| The Founding of the Song Dynasty | |
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| Song's Rivals: Liao and Xia | |
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| A New Era | |
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| The Fall of the Northern Song and the Jin Dynasty | |
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| Hangzhou and the Southern Song | |
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| Song Culture and Society | |
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| Mongol Rule: Yuan (1215-1368) | |
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| The Mongol Conquest of the Jin and Xia Dynasties | |
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| The Mongol Conquest of the Southern Song | |
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| Life in China Under the Mongols | |
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| The Ming Dynasty (1368-1600) | |
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| The Founding of the Ming Dynasty | |
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| Diplomacy and Defense | |
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| Social and Cultural Trends | |
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| Manchus and the Qing (1600-1800) | |
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| The Ming Dynasty Lapses into Disorder | |
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| The Manchus | |
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| Ming Loyalism | |
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| The Qing at Its Height | |
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| Contacts with Europe | |
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| Social and Cultural Cross Currents | |
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| Disorder and Decline (1800-1900) | |
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| Economic and Fiscal Problems | |
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| Midcentury Crises | |
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| Self-Strengthening | |
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| Foreigners in China | |
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| The Failures of Reform | |
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| The Boxer Rebellion | |
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| The Decline of the Qing Empire in Comparative Perspective | |
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| Remaking China (1900-1927) | |
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| The End of Monarchy | |
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| The Presidency of Yuan Shikai and the Emergence of the Warlords | |
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| Toward a More Modern China | |
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| Reunification by the Nationalists | |
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| War and Revolution (1927-1949) | |
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| The Chinese Communist Party | |
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| The Nationalist Government in Nanjing | |
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| The Japanese Invasion and the Retreat to Chongqing | |
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| The Chinese Communist Party During the War | |
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| The Civil War and the Communist Victory | |
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| The People's Republic Under Mao (1949-1976) | |
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| The Party in Power | |
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| Departing from the Soviet Model | |
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| The Cultural Revolution | |
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| The Death of Mao | |
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| New Directions (1976 to the Present) | |
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| The Communist Party After Mao | |
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| Restructuring the Economy | |
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| Social and Cultural Changes | |
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| Critical Voices | |
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| Taiwan | |
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| China in the World | |