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Tables of Contents for Rebellions and Revolutions
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of maps and tables
xvii
Chronology
xix
Emperors of the late Qing dynasty
lxxiii
The Imperial examination system
lxxiv
Notes on Chinese names
lxxv
The traditional society
1
21
European views on China
1
4
The traditional economy
5
10
The political system
15
4
The socialization process
19
3
The opening of China
22
30
The European trade with East Asia
22
10
The problem of jurisdiction
32
7
The opium crisis and war, 1836--1842
39
9
The Treaty of Nanjing
48
4
The Taiping Rebellion, 1850--1864
52
25
Disorder and rebellion
52
3
The origins of the rebellion
55
4
The Taiping kingdom
59
4
The course of the rebellion
63
9
The foreign powers and the Taipings
72
5
Conflict with the Western powers, 1843--1861
77
24
Anglo-Chinese relations, 1843--1857
77
7
The origins of the second war
84
8
The third war, 1860
92
1
China's inner frontiers and the advance of Russia
93
8
The self-strengthening movement
101
24
Opportunities, political and economic, 1861--1894
101
2
Court politics after 1860
103
10
Foreign relations, 1861--1894
113
5
The first Sino-Japanese war, 1894
118
5
The question of imperialism
123
2
Reform and revolution
125
25
The reform movement of 1898
125
10
The Boxer movement
135
3
The end of the monarchy
138
7
The government of Yuan Shikai
145
5
The Chinese economy
150
17
Developments between 1912 and 1938
150
3
Rural China
153
9
Traditional handicrafts
162
1
Public debt
163
2
Foreign enterprise and China
165
2
The war-lord era
167
25
The origins of war-lordism
167
1
The split in the Beiyang army
168
11
The Zhili--Anhui--Fengtian wars
179
11
The effects of war-lordism
190
2
The radicalization of Chinese politics
192
19
Sun Yatsen and events in the south, 1913--1923
192
3
The May Fourth Movement
195
3
Founders of Chinese communism
198
13
The rise of Chiang Kaishek
211
18
The Guomindang and the Zhejiang connection, 1911--1926
211
3
The labour movement
214
2
The Communists and the peasants
216
3
Chiang Kaishek and the Communists, 1925--1927
219
10
The Nationalist regime, 1928--1937
229
18
The legacy of Sun Yatsen
229
3
Opposition to the Nationalist regime, 1928--1933
232
6
The record of the Nationalist regime
238
6
Chinese Fascism, 1928--1937
244
3
The Chinese Communist Party, 1927--1934
247
21
The policy of insurrection
247
7
The rise of the rural Soviets
254
4
The Li Lisan Line
258
3
Mao Zedong and the Jiangxi Soviet, 1931--1934
261
7
The Chinese Communist Party, 1935--1949
268
17
The Long March, 1934--1935
268
2
The Second United Front, 1937--1945
270
7
`Maoism' in the 1940s
277
5
The victory of the Chinese Communist Party
282
3
The Chinese People's Republic, 1949--1957
285
19
The early years of Communist rule, 1949--1953
285
2
Land reform and economic recovery, 1949--1953
287
4
The imposition of intellectual control
291
2
China's First Five Year Plan, 1953--1957
293
6
Ten Great Relationships and a Hundred Flowers, 1956
299
5
The Great Leap Forward
304
20
Economic problems, 1956--1958
304
4
The Chinese communes
308
2
The failure of the Leap, 1958--1960
310
6
China's foreign policy, 1949--1963
316
4
The Sino-Soviet split
320
4
The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, I
324
25
The Socialist Education Movement, 1963--1965
324
4
The polarization of Chinese politics, 1963--1965
328
5
The aims of the Cultural Revolution
333
2
The course of the Cultural Revolution
335
9
Policy questions in the Cultural Revolution
344
5
The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, II
349
32
The `Paris Communes', January 1967
349
3
The `revolutionary committees', 1967--1968
352
5
The Little Red Book
357
4
The restoration of Party power, 1968--1969
361
3
The fall of Lin Biao
364
6
The aftermath, 1975--1976, and a summing-up
370
2
The second dismissal of Deng Xiaoping
372
1
Mao Zedong in retrospect
373
8
China since the death of Mao
381
49
The re-emergence of Deng Xiaoping, 1976--1981
381
4
The first steps to economic reform
385
4
Changes in rural China
389
7
Reforming the State sector
396
3
Problems of political reform, 1978--1989
399
31
Reaction and renewed reform
430
11
The economy since 1993
431
5
Political reform since 1992
436
5
Conclusion: The modernization of China
441
22
Wealth and strength
444
5
The standard of living
449
2
Foreign policy
451
2
The return of Hong Kong
453
1
Modernization versus Westernization
454
2
The other China: Taiwan
456
2
Chinese intellectual tradition and Western influence
458
3
Human rights in China
461
2
Recommendations for further reading
463
10
Index
473