The People’s Republic of China is situated in Eurasia, on the western shores of the Pacific Ocean. Its borders reach from the central line of the main navigation channel of the Heilongjiang (Heilungkiang) River near Mohe in the north to the Zengmu Reef in the Nansha Ar-chipelago in the south.

• • Introduction
    • A Land of 9,600,000 Square Kilometres
    • Fifty-six Ethnic Groups and a Population of More Than 1,000,000,000
    • 1,700,000 Years and 3,600 Years
  • Traces of Remote Antiquity
    • From Yuanmou Man to Peking Man;the Making of Tools and the Use of Fire
    • Dingcun(Tingsun) Man and Upper Cave Man;the Improvement of Tools and the Emergence of Ornaments
    • The Yangshao Culture and Its Matriarchal Communes
    • The Patriarchal Clan Society of the Longshan Culture
  • Myth and Legend
    • The Legends of Ancient Tribes
    • Tribal Chiefs, Gods and Their Sons
    • The Hereditary Monarchy of the Xia Dynasty

• The Slave State of the Shang and Zhou Dynasties
  • The Earliest Written History
  • The Slave-owning Shang Dynasty
  • The Social Economy of the Shang Dynasty
  • The Rise of the Zhou and the Establishment of the Slaveowning Zhou Dynasty
  • Economic Development Under Zhou Slavery
  • The Zhou Dynasty from Prosperity to Decline
• The Early Eastern Zhou, Spring and Autumn, and Warring States Periods:Transition from Slavery to Feudalism
  • The Early Eastern Zhou and the Spring and Autumn Period:Contentino for Supremacy Among the Major States
  • The Seven Powers of the Warring States Period
  • The Transition from Slavery to Feudalism
  • Confucius, Mo Zi, Other Thinkers and the Elegies of Chu
• The Qin and Han Dynasties:the Growth of Feudal Society
  • The Qin,China’s First Feudal Dynasty
  • Peasant Uprisings in the Late Qin Dynasty
  • Establishment and Consolidation of the Western Han Dynasty
  • Golden Age of the Western Han Dynasty
  • Decline of the Western Han Dynasty; Uprisings of the Green Woodsmen and Red Eyebrows
  • The Establishment of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Prolonged Turbulence, and the Yellow Turban Uprsing
  • The Development of Social Productive Forces
  • The Growth of Feudal Relations
• The Three Kingdoms, the Jin, the Southern and Northern Dynasties, the Sui and the Tang: the Earlier Period of Ascendancy of Chinese Feudalism
  • The Three Kingdoms
  • The Western Jin, the Eastern Jin and the Sixteen States
  • The Southern and Northern Dynasties
  • The Establishment of the Sui Dynasty and the Peasant Uprisings in Its Closing Years
  • The Golden Age of the Tang
  • Turmoil in the Mid-Tang Period
  • The Decline of the Tang Empire and the Late-Tang Peasant Uprisings
  • The Development of Social Productive Forces
  • The Development of Feudal Relations and the Feudalization of Regions Inhabited by Several Ethnic Group
• The Five Dynasties, the Song and the Yuan: the Later Period of Ascendancy of Chinese Feudalism
  • The Five Dynasties and Ten States
  • Rise and Fall of the Northern Song;Uprisings by Wang Xiaobo and Fang La
  • The Liao, the Xia and the Jin:Their Relations with the Northern Song
  • Rival Regimes of the Song and the Jin; Uprisings by Zhong Xiang, Yang Yao and the Red Jackets
  • The Rise of the Mongols and the Fall of the Xia, the Jin and the Southern Song
  • Founding of the Yuan Dynasty and Peasant Uprisings During the Late Yuan
  • Further Growth of Social Productivity; Southward Shift of Economic Development
  • Further Devlopment of Feudal Relations;Feudalization of the Border Rgeions
  • China’s Communications with the Outside World

• The Ming-Qing Period: the Twilight of Feudalism
  • Establishment of the Ming Dynasty
  • Decline of the Ming Dynasty;Refugee and Miner Uprisings
  • Decay of the Ming Dynasty;Peasant Uprisings Continued
  • Rise of the Manchus; Peasant Uprisings Towards the End of the Ming; Fall of the Ming Dynasty
  • Peasant Regime of the Great Shun;Princes of the Southern Ming; Unification Activities During the Early Qing Dynasty
  • Qing Rule Strengthened
  • Decline of the Qing; Uprisings of Different Ethnic Groups
  • The Decline of Feudalism and the Emergence of Sprouts of Capitalism
  • Arrival of Western Colonialism
• Semi-Colonial and Semi-Feudal Society; the Old Democratic Revolution
  • The Opium War
  • The Taiping Peasant War
  • The Second Opium War; Russia’s Occupation of Chinese Territory
  • The Later Period of the Taiping Peasant War
  • Culture and Learning After the Opium War
  • Foreign Economic Aggression and the Official “Westernization” Drive
  • The Proletariat and the National Bourgeoisie in the Early Days; the Spread of Modern Western Science
  • Foreign Aggression and China’s Border Crises
  • The Sino-Japanese War and Imperialist Partition of China
  • The Modernization Movement of the Bourgeois Reformists
  • The Anti-Imperialist Patriotic Movement of the Yi He Tuan
  • The Rise of the Bourgeois Revolutionary Movement
  • The Founding of the Tong Meng Hui
  • The Wuchang Uprising; The Founding of the Republic of China and the Fall of the Qing Dynasty
  • The Period of Beiyang Warlord Rule
  • Ideology and Culture During the Period of Bourgeois Revolution
  • The Dawn of the Chinese Revolution
• The Contnuation of the Semi-Colonial and Semi-Feudal Society and the New-Democratic Revolution
  • The May 4th Movement and the Beginning of the New-democratic Revolution
  • The Development of the National Capitalist Economy and the Formation of the Programme of the Chinese Communist Party in the Democratic Revolution
  • The Evolution of the Beiyang Warlord Forces and the Rise of the National Revolutionary Movement Northen Expeditionary War and Failure of the National Revolution
  • Establishment of Kuomintang Rule and the Beginning of the Soviet Revolution
  • Growth and Decline of the Kuomintang Factions and Setting-up of the Soviet Areas
  • The September 18th Incident and the Upsurge of the Nationwide Anti-Japanese Democratic Movement. The Kuomintang Policy of “Internal Pacification Before Resistance to Foreign Invasion”
  • Fascist Rule of the Kuomintang Government. The Deepening and Expansion of the Soviet Revolution and the Long March of the Red Army
  • The Birth of New-democratic Economy. Economic Changes in the Kuomintang Area
  • Transition from Civil War to the of Resistance Against Japan
  • The July 7th Incident and the Start of the Nationwide War of Resistance Against Japan. Three Kinds of Political Power Exist Simultaneously
  • Changes in the Situation of the Anti-Japanese War from the Stage of Stalemate
  • The Outbreak of the Pacific War. The Kuomintang Area and the Liberated Area in the Mid-Period of the Anti-Japanese War
  • The Political Struggle in the Later Stage of the Anti-Japanese War and the Final Victory of the War
  • Proposals of Political Parties Concerning National Reconstruction. The Political Consultative Conference
  • The Outbreak of All-out Civil War. Radical Turn in Military and Political Situation in China
  • The Downfall of the Nanjing Regime and the Founding of the Pople’s Republic of China
  • Philosophy, Historiography, Natural Science and Literature

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