Cao Dawei is a professor of history at Beijing Normal University. His research interests include China's medieval history, social history, and cultural history; he was the chief editor of middle school history textbooks of several editions. He is the author of Female Education in Ancient China and Encyclopedia for the Great Wall.; Sun Yanjing is a professor of history at Beijing Normal University and the author of Studies on the Social Customs of the Late Qing Dynasty, Foreign Settlements in Modern China and Photos Taken during the Late Qing Dynasty.
Publisher
Gale Asia
Volume
Copyright
2011
ISBN13
9789814319966
Release
Format
eBook
Grade Level
9th Grade - College Senior
DDC
TBD
Features & Benefits
One of the 12 beautifully illustrated handy books about China
One of the 12 beautifully illustrated handy books about China
Offers basic, important, and updated information about China's history
Offers basic, important, and updated information about China's history
For your information (FYI) boxes providing readers with interesting factual information on certain topics which encourages them to explore the topics further
For your information (FYI) boxes providing readers with interesting factual information on certain topics which encourages them to explore the topics further
1. The Origin of Chinese Culture.
2. The Xia, Shang, and Western Zhou Dynasties: Early States and Bronze
Civilization.
3. The Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods: States Contend for Power, Control, and Social Reform.
4. The Qin and Han Dynasties: Establishment and Development of a Great
Unified Country.
5. The Wei, Jin, and Southern and Northern Dynasties: Regime Division and
Ethnic Concentration.
6. The Sui and Tang Dynasties: A Prosperous and Open Age.
7. The Song and Yuan Dynasties: Cultural Collision and Fusion and Socioeconomic
Advances.
8. The Ming and Qing Dynasties (before the Opium War): Prosperity of the
Farming Civilization and Crisis before Modern Times.
9. The Decline and Struggle of Modern China.
10. The People's Republic of China: In Search of Socialist Modernization.
Appendix: Chronological Table of the Chinese Dynasties.
