China

China
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Three thousand years of Chinese history in an accessible and authoritative single volume.Despite the recent rise of China to a position of dominance on the world economic stage, Chinese history remains an elusive subject. Yet it is this vast narrative of appalling loss, superhuman endeavour and incredible invention that has made China the superpower it is today. From the dawn of legend to the succession of great dynasties, from Confucius to Chairman Mao and from the clamour of revolution to the lure of slick capitalism, John Keay takes the reader on a sweeping tour through Chinese history. This is a definitive and indispensable account of a country set to play a major part in our future.

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John Keay. China

China. John Keay

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Contents

INTRODUCTION. REWRITING THE PAST

SPADEWORK

CRADLE, CORE AND BEYOND

THE DYNASTIC DYNAMIC

THE TRIUMPH OF PINYIN

A MATTER OF SCALE

1 RITES TO WRITING

THE GREAT BEGINNING

GLINT OF BRONZE

FINDING FAMILY

IN THE ORACULAR

2 SAGES AND HEROES

FOOTPRINTS OF ZHOU

LESS SPRING THAN AUTUMN

THE CONFUCIAN CONVEYANCE

WARRING STATES AND STATIST WARS

3 THE FIRST EMPIRE

STONE CATTLE ROAD

QIN’S CULTURAL REVOLUTION

CRUMBLING WALL, HIDDEN TOMB

4 HAN ASCENDANT

QIN IMPLODES

PAWN TO KING

JADED MONARCHS

5 WITHIN AND BEYOND

HAN AND HUN

EXPLORER ZHANG AND THE WESTERN REGIONS

ADMINISTERING AN EMPIRE

CONFUCIAN FUNDAMENTALISM

6 WANG MANG AND THE HAN REPRISE

A ONE-MAN DYNASTY

ACROSS THE WATERSHED

DECLINE AND FALL

7 FOUR HUNDRED YEARS OF VICISSITUDE

THREE KINGDOMS AND THE RED CLIFFS

DAO AND THE CELESTIAL MASTERS

ENTER THE ENLIGHTENED ONE

INTO THE ABYSS

LUOYANG AGAIN

8 SUI, TANG AND THE SECOND EMPIRE

INTERCALARY CONJUNCTION

SUI-CIDE

SONS OF THE SUNSET AND THE SUNRISE

BEYOND THE JADE GATE

9 HIGH TANG

WANTON, NOT WAYWARD

THE GREATEST POWER IN ASIA

LIKE A BREATH OF SPRING

A TURNING POINT

10 RECONFIGURING THE EMPIRE

LOW TANG

FIVE DYNASTIES OR TEN KINGDOMS

SONG AND LIAO

11 CAVING IN

THE GREAT STATE OF WHITE AND HIGH

REFORM AND REAPPRAISAL

IN SINGING-GIRL TOWERS

JIN AND SONG

12 BY LAND AND SEA

SUNSET OF THE SONG

MONGOL REUNIFICATION

MONGOL MISADVENTURES

TRIUMPH OF THE MING

13 THE RITES OF MING

FROM THE EDGE OF THE SKY TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH

MISADVENTURES AND MISFORTUNES

THE GREAT RITES CONTROVERSY

LANDMARKS AND INROADS

14 THE MANCHU CONQUEST

OVERWHELMING MING

FROM JURCHEN TO MANCHU

MUCH IN DEMAND

ZUNGHARIA, XINJIANG AND TIBET

15 DEATH THROES OF EMPIRE

SELF-EVIDENT TRUTHS

INSULTS AND OPIUM

TAIPING AND TIANJIN

16 REPUBLICANS AND NATIONALISTS

BRUSH TO PEN

FROM EMPIRE TO REPUBLIC

WAR AND MORE WAR

LONG MARCH, LONG WAR

EPILOGUE

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NOTES

EPIGRAPHS

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER 1: RITES TO WRITING, PRE-C. 1050 BC

CHAPTER 2: SAGES AND HEROES, C. 1050 BC-C. 250 BC

CHAPTER 3: THE FIRST EMPIRE, C. 250-210 BC

CHAPTER 4: HAN ASCENDANT, 210–141 BC

CHAPTER 5: WITHIN AND BEYOND, 141 BC–AD 1

CHAPTER 6: WANG MANG AND THE HAN REPRISE, AD 1–189

CHAPTER 7: FOUR HUNDRED YEARS OF VICISSITUDE, 189–550

CHAPTER 8: SUI, TANG AND THE SECOND EMPIRE, 550–650

CHAPTER 9: HIGH TANG, 650–755

CHAPTER 10: RECONFIGURING THE EMPIRE, 755–1005

CHAPTER 11: CAVING IN, 1005–1235

CHAPTER 12: BY LAND AND SEA, 1235–1405

CHAPTER 13: THE RITES OF MING, 1405–1620

CHAPTER 14: THE MANCHU CONQUEST, 1620–1760

CHAPTER 15: DEATH THROES OF EMPIRE, 1760–1880

CHAPTER 16: REPUBLICANS AND NATIONALISTS, 1880–1950

EPILOGUE

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

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Praise

About the Publisher

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For Julia

Confucius, The Analects, Book I, i1

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Sadly – indeed catastrophically for the wider understanding of China – few of these names will be familiar to readers primed on existing works in English. Until recently the Emperor Tang Taizong usually appeared in English translation as T’ang T’ai-tsung, Emperor Song Renzong as Sung Jen-tsung and the Qing Qianlong emperor as the Ch’ing Ch’ien-lung emperor. Hebei and Henan provinces were Hopei and Honan, Beijing was Peking, and the Giant Panda was not Daxiongmao but Ta-hsiung-mao. Something like 75 per cent of all Romanised renderings of Chinese characters have been changed in the last thirty years, often beyond the point of easy recognition. In the long run, the change can only be for the good, although at the present time it remains a challenge and a source of no little confusion.

Previously a system called Wade-Giles (after its two late nineteenth-century creators) governed the spelling of Chinese words in English. Wade-Giles was not straightforward, involving nearly as much diacritic punctuation – hyphens, single inverted commas – as letters. More disastrously, its use was far from universal. Another system was common in the United States, and other European languages had their own systems. To say that linguistic scholarship was failing the student of China would be an understatement. Standardisation became imperative.

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