The Search for Modern ChinaJonathan D. Spence is George Burton Adams Professor of History at Yale University and author of eight acclaimed books on China. Here he has written a very readable history of this fascinating country. "To understand . . . China's past there is no better place to start than Jonathan D. Spences excellent new book".--The New York Times Book Review front page review. 136 pages of photographs. |
Contents
AND SOCIETY | 5 |
FOREIGN THReats in the LATE MING | 19 |
GROWTH OF MANCHU POWER 16101644 | 27 |
FLIGHT OF THE ANTIMING REBELS 16441647 | 34 |
THE THREE FEUDATORIES 16731681 | 49 |
MARITIME CHINA IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY | 55 |
THE TREATY OF NERCHINSK 1689 | 66 |
THE TREATY Of Kiakhta 1727 | 80 |
THE MUKDEN INCIDENT SEPTEMBER 1931 | 392 |
THE NANJING GOVERNMENTS MILITARY AND DEBT EXPENDITURES | 399 |
THE LONG MARCH | 403 |
THE LONG MARCH OCTOBER 1934JUNE 1935 | 406 |
INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION OF CHINA PROPER AND MANCHURIA | 425 |
SAMPLE FARM INCOMES AND EXPENSES IN MICHANG VILLAGE | 433 |
JAPANESE EXPANSION | 444 |
THE WAR IN SOUTH CHINA 19381942 | 458 |
MACROREGIONS IN MIDQING CHINA | 92 |
HEBEI SHANDONG AND ALL OF CHINA | 94 |
QIANLONGS WESTERN CAMPAIGNS | 98 |
SOCIAL PRESSURES AND POPULATION GROWTH 90 LIKE THE SUN | 102 |
QING CAMPAIGNS IN VIETNAM 17881789 | 111 |
China and the EighteenthCentury World | 117 |
BRITISH SALES OF OPIUM TO CHINA | 129 |
MANAGING THE FOREIGNERS 117 ALIENS AND CHINESE | 132 |
II | 137 |
THE OPIUM War 18391842 | 155 |
TREATY SYSTEM | 158 |
The Crisis Within | 165 |
Foreign pressures and Marxs VIEWS | 179 |
MUSLIM REVOLTS | 189 |
CONFUCIAN REFORM 194 DEFINING FOREIGN POLICY | 199 |
THE MISSIONARY PRESENCE 204 OVERSEAS CHINESE | 210 |
New Tensions in the Late Qing | 216 |
SELFSTRENGTHENING AND THE JAPANESE WAR 216 THE REFORM | 224 |
EMERGING FORCES | 238 |
The End of the Dynasty | 245 |
CHINAS RAILWAYS 18801905 | 251 |
NATIONALISTS AND SOCIALISTS | 256 |
THE FALL OF THE QING 1911 | 264 |
The New Republic | 267 |
FOREIGN INVESTMENTS IN CHINA 1902 AND 1914 | 282 |
THE WARNING VOICE OF SOCIAL DARWINISM | 300 |
CHINAS ANNUAL PRODUCTION OF COAL IRON AND STEEL 19121927 | 326 |
RAILWAY AND INDUSTRIAL EXPANSION 19121922 | 328 |
The Clash | 334 |
THE NORTHERN EXPEDITION 1926 | 347 |
THE NORTHERN EXPEDITION 1928 | 364 |
EXPENDITURES REVENUES AND DEFICITS OF THE NATIONAL | 367 |
XUNWUS TRADITIONAL LAND RELATIONSHIPS | 374 |
CCP SOVIETS 19271934 | 378 |
FOREIGN INVESTMENTS IN CHINA BY COUNTRY 19021936 | 382 |
MANPOWER CHINESE NATIONALIST ARMIES 19371945 | 459 |
CHINAS CURRENCY 19371942 | 467 |
JAPANS ICHIGO OFFENSIVE 1944 | 476 |
SAMPLE | 480 |
THE COURSE OF FABI DEPRECIATION SEPTEMBER 1945FEBRUARY 1947 | 499 |
THE CIVIL WAR IN NORTH CHINA 1948 | 506 |
SHIFTS IN GUOMINDANG AND CCP TROOP STRENGTH 19451948 | 507 |
NEW GOVERNMENT | 519 |
MILITARY REGIONS OF THE PRC 1949 | 523 |
DIPLOMATIC RECOGNITION OF THE PRC 19491950 | 525 |
MASS CAMPAIGNS | 533 |
Results of THE FIVE ANTI MOVEMENT IN SHANGHAI 1952 | 539 |
Planning the New Society | 541 |
DISTRIBUTION OF GOVERNMENT BUDGET EXPENDITURES 19501957 | 545 |
CHINAS MILITARY BUDGET 19501960 | 559 |
NATIONAL MINORITIES 551 ARMY REFORM 557 THE HUNDRED | 563 |
Deepening the Revolution | 574 |
THE GREAT LEAP FORWARD 574 THE SINOSOVIET RIFT | 583 |
BORDER CLASHES 1959 | 587 |
POLITICAL INVESTIGATION AND SOCIALIST EDUCATION 590 | 609 |
CCP ENROLLMENT 19661976 | 634 |
CHINESE TRADE and Complete PLANT PURCHASES | 641 |
CONFUCIUS AND LIN BIAO 633 DEFINING THE ECONOMY 1974 | 645 |
FIELDS OF STUDY FOR PROJECTED CHINESE STUDENTS IN THE UNITED | 655 |
TAIWANS ECONOMIC BASE 1953 AND 1962 | 669 |
Redefining Revolution | 675 |
Levels of Power | 683 |
AGE COMPOSITION OF THE TWO SEXES IN CHINAS POPULATION 1982 | 684 |
ONE BILLION PEOPLE 683 GOVERNING CHINA IN THE 1980S | 690 |
THE PROBLEMS OF PROSPERITY 19831984 696 REBUILDING | 704 |
NOTES AND PERMISSIONS | 749 |
83 | 758 |
THE TREATY PORTS 1842 | 774 |
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The Search for Modern China: A Documentary Collection Pei-kai Cheng,Michael Elliot Lestz,Jonathan D. Spence No preview available - 1999 |
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