LEADER 05274nam 2200661Ia 450 001 9910452953603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-118-47345-0 010 $a1-55786-078-5 010 $a1-118-47344-2 035 $a(CKB)2550000001106851 035 $a(EBL)1323948 035 $a(OCoLC)854977092 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000949778 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12420528 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000949778 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11004357 035 $a(PQKB)11082980 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1323948 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4035666 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1323948 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10738690 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL507221 035 $a(OCoLC)860825901 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001106851 100 $a20130225d2014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 12$aA history of China$b[electronic resource] /$fMorris Rossabi 210 $aMalden, Mass. $cJohn Wiley and Sons$d2014 215 $a1 online resource (454 p.) 225 0 $aThe Blackwell history of the world 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-57718-113-1 311 $a1-299-75970-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aA History of China; Copyright; Contents; Series Editor's Preface; Preface; Acknowledgments; List of Illustrations; List of Maps; A Note on Romanization; Part I China among "Barbarians"; 1 Early History, to 1027 BCE; Land and Settlement; Early Mankind; Agricultural Revolution in the Neolithic Era; Xia: The First Dynasty?; The Shang and the Origins of Chinese Civilization; Oracle Bones; Ritual Objects as Historical Sources; Shang Society; Notes; Further Reading; 2 Classical China, 1027-256 BCE; "Feudalism"?; Changes in Social Structure; Political Instability in the Eastern Zhou 327 $aTransformations in the EconomyHundred Schools of Thought; Daoism; Popular Religions; Confucianism; Mohism; Legalism; Book of Odes and Book of Documents; Secularization of Arts; Notes; Further Reading; 3 The First Chinese Empires, 221 BCE-220 CE; Development of the Qin State; Qin Achievements; Failures of the Qin; Han and New Institutions; Han Foreign Relations; Emperor Wu's Domestic Policies and Their Ramifications; Wang Mang: Reformer or Usurper?; Restoration of a Weaker Han Dynasty; Spiritual and Philosophical Developments in the Han; Han Literature and Art; Further Reading 327 $a4 Chaos and Religious and Political Responses, 220-581Three Kingdoms; Rise of South China; Foreigners and North China; Northern Wei; Spiritual Developments, Post-Han; Buddhism Enters China; Literature, Science, and the Arts in a Period of Division; Notes; Further Reading; Part II China among Equals; 5 Restoration of Empire under Sui and Tang, 581-907; Sui: First Step in Restoration; Disastrous Foreign Campaigns; Origins of the Tang; Taizong: The Greatest Tang Emperor; Tang Expansionism; Irregular Successions and the Empress Wu; Tang Cosmopolitanism; Arrival of Foreign Religions 327 $aGlorious Tang ArtsDecline of the Tang; Tang Faces Rebellions; Uyghur Empire and Tang; Tang's Continuing Decline; Suppression of Buddhism; Final Collapse; Efflorescence of Tang Culture; Notes; Further Reading; 6 Post-Tang Society and the Glorious Song, 907-1279; Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms; Song: A Lesser Empire; A New Song Elite; Neo-Confucianism: A New Philosophy; Attempts at Reform; Women and the Song; The Khitans and the Liao Dynasty; Expansion of Khitan Territory; Preservation of Khitan Identity; Fall of the Liao; Xia and Jin: Two Foreign Dynasties; Song Arts 327 $aSouthern Song Economic and Cultural Sophistication and Political InstabilityNotes; Further Reading; Part III China and the Mongol World; 7 Mongol Rule in China, 1234-1368; Rise of Chinggis Khan; Legacy of Chinggis Khan; Expansion and Early Rule of Empire; Sorghaghtani Beki, Mo?ngke, and Khubilai; Unification of China; Khubilai's Policies; Multiethnic and Multireligious China; Khubilai and Chinese Culture; Decline of the Yuan; Legacy of the Mongols; Notes; Further Reading; 8 Ming: Isolationism and Involvement in the World, 1368-1644; A More Powerful State; Opening to the Outside World 327 $aA Costly Failure 330 $a Capturing China's past in all its complexity, this multi-faceted history portrays China in the context of a larger global world, while incorporating the narratives of Chinese as well as non-Chinese ethnic groups and discussing people traditionally left out of the story-peasants, women, merchants, and artisans. Offers a complete political, economic, social, and cultural history of China, covering the major events and trendsWritten in a clear and uncomplicated style by a distinguished historian with over four decades of experience teaching undergraduates