This is China : the first 5,000 years / Haiwang Yuan, general editor ; Ronald G. Knapp, Margot E. Landman, and Gregory Veeck, editors.

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Background-The Land and the People -- Physical Geography -- Human Geography -- From Prehistory to the End of the Empire -- Xia Dynasty: Real or Legendary? (2100?--1766? BCE) -- Shang Dynasty: Ancestor Worship and Oracle Bones (1766--1045 BCE) -- Zhou Dynasty: Bronze, Jade and Confucius (1045--256 BCE) -- Qin Dynasty: Terracotta Soldiers (221--206 BCE) -- Han Dynasty: Paper, Porcelain, and the Silk Roads (206 BCE--220 CE) -- Southern and Northern Dynasties (220--589 CE) -- Sui Dynasty: China United (581--618 CE) -- Tang Dynasty: Poetry and Literature (618--907 CE) -- Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms (907--960 CE) -- Song Dynasty: Northern Song and Southern Song (960--1279) -- Jurchen Jin Dynasty (1125--1234) -- Yuan Dynasty: Mongol Rule (1279--1368) -- Ming Dynasty: Building the Great Wall (1368--1644) -- Qing Dynasty: Manchu Rule (1644--1911/12) -- A Century of Change--Front 1912 to Today -- China as a Republic (1911/12--1949) -- The War with Japan and the Chinese Civil War (1937--1949) -- Communists in Power: The Early Years (1949--1966) -- The Cultural Revolution (1966--1976) -- China after Mao (1976--present) -- China Today -- The Pace of Change -- China´s Inner Life -- Concepts: Uniquely Chinese -- Challenges.