China

A New History, Second Enlarged Edition

By: John King Fairbank, Merle Goldman

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Paperback | 30 April 2006 | Edition Number 2

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John King Fairbank was the West's doyen on China, and this book is the full and final expression of his lifelong engagement with this vast ancient civilization. It remains a masterwork without parallel. The distinguished historian Merle Goldman brings the book up to date, covering reforms in the post-Mao period through the early years of the twenty-first century, including the leadership of Hu Jintao. She also provides an epilogue discussing the changes in contemporary China that will shape the nation in the years to come.

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Manages to tell its sprawling, turbulent, 4,000-year story in a single volume without either losing clarity or oversimplifying its subject...Rich and fascinating. -- Arnold R. Isaacs * San Francisco Chronicle *
Will serve for decades to come as a standard reference and textbook. -- Robert L. Worden * Washington Post Book World *

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Preface to the Enlarged Edition	p. xv
Preface to the Original Edition	p. xvii
Introduction: Approaches to Understanding China's History	p. 1
The Variety of Historical Perspectives	p. 1
Geography: The Contrast of North and South	p. 4
Humankind in Nature	p. 14
The Village: Family and Lineage	p. 17
Inner Asia and China: The Steppe and the Sown	p. 23
Rise and Decline of the Imperial Autocracy	p. 27
Origins: The Discoveries of Archaeology	p. 29
Paleolithic China	p. 29
Neolithic China	p. 31
Excavation of Shang and Xia	p. 33
The Rise of Central Authority	p. 37
Western Zhou	p. 39
Implications of the New Archaeological Record	p. 40
The First Unification: Imperial Confucianism	p. 46
The Utility of Dynasties	p. 46
Princes and Philosophers	p. 49
The Confucian Code	p. 51
Daoism	p. 53
Unification by Qin	p. 54
Consolidation and Expansion under the Han	p. 57
Imperial Confucianism	p. 62
Correlative Cosmology	p. 64
Emperor and Scholars	p. 66
Reunification in the Buddhist Age	p. 72
Disunion	p. 72
The Buddhist Teaching	p. 73
Sui-Tang Reunification	p. 76
Buddhism and the State	p. 79
Decline of the Tang Dynasty	p. 81
Social Change: The Tang-Song Transition	p. 83
China's Greatest Age: Northern and Southern Song	p. 88
Efflorescence of Material Growth	p. 88
Education and the Examination System	p. 93
The Creation of Neo-Confucianism	p. 96
Formation of Gentry Society	p. 101
The Paradox of Song China and Inner Asia	p. 108
The Symbiosis of Wen and Wu	p. 108
The Rise of Non-Chinese Rule over China	p. 112
China in the Mongol Empire	p. 119
Interpreting the Song Era	p. 126
Government in the Ming Dynasty	p. 128
Legacies of the Hongwu Emperor	p. 128
Fiscal Problems	p. 132
China Turns Inward	p. 137
Factional Politics	p. 140
The Qing Success Story	p. 143
The Manchu Conquest	p. 143
Institutional Adaptation	p. 146
The Jesuit Interlude	p. 151
Growth of Qing Control in Inner Asia	p. 152
The Attempted Integration of Polity and Culture	p. 154
Late Imperial China, 1600-1911	p. 163
The Paradox of Growth without Development	p. 167
The Rise in Population	p. 167
Diminishing Returns of Farm Labor	p. 170
The Subjection of Women	p. 173
Domestic Trade and Commercial Organization	p. 176
Merchant-Official Symbiosis	p. 179
Limitations of the Law	p. 183
Frontier Unrest and the Opening of China	p. 187
The Weakness of State Leadership	p. 187
The White Lotus Rebellion, 1796-1804	p. 189
Maritime China: Origins of the Overseas Chinese	p. 191
European Trading Companies and the Canton Trade	p. 195
Rebellion on the Turkestan Frontier, 1826-1835	p. 197
Opium and the Struggle for a New Order at Guangzhou, 1834-1842	p. 198
Inauguration of the Treaty Century after 1842	p. 201
Rebellion and Restoration	p. 206
The Great Taiping Rebellion, 1851-1864	p. 206
Civil War	p. 209
The Qing Restoration of the 1860s	p. 212
Suppression of Other Rebellions	p. 214
Early Modernization and the Decline of Qing Power	p. 217
Self-Strengthening and Its Failure	p. 217
The Christian-Confucian Struggle	p. 221
The Reform Movement	p. 224
The Boxer Rising, 1898-1901	p. 230
Demoralization	p. 232
The Republican Revolution, 1901-1916	p. 235
A New Domestic Balance of Power	p. 235
Suppressing Rebellion by Militarization	p. 236
Elite Activism in the Public Sphere	p. 238
The Japanese Influence	p. 240
The Qing Reform Effort	p. 241
Constitutionalism and Self-Government	p. 244
Insoluble Systemic Problems	p. 247
The Revolution of 1911 and Yuan Shikai's Dictatorship	p. 250
The Republic of China, 1912-1949	p. 255
The Quest for a Chinese Civil Society	p. 257
The Limits of Chinese Liberalism	p. 257
The Limits of Christian Reformism	p. 260
The Tardy Rise of a Political Press	p. 262
Academic Development	p. 263
The New Culture Movement	p. 266
The May Fourth Movement	p. 267
Rise of the Chinese Bourgeoisie	p. 269
Origins of the Chinese Communist Party	p. 275
The Nationalist Revolution and the Nanjing Government	p. 279
Sun Yatsen and the United Front	p. 279
The Accession to Power of Jiang Jieshi (Chiang Kaishek)	p. 283
The Nature of the Nanjing Government	p. 286
Systemic Weaknesses	p. 289
The Second Coming of the Chinese Communist Party	p. 294
Problems of Life on the Land	p. 294
Rural Reconstruction	p. 299
The Rise of Mao Zedong	p. 301
The Long March, 1934-1935	p. 305
The Role of Zhou Enlai	p. 307
The Second United Front	p. 310
China's War of Resistance, 1937-1945	p. 312
Nationalist Difficulties	p. 312
Mao's Sinification of Marxism	p. 316
Mao Zedong Thought	p. 321
The Rectification Campaign of 1942-1944	p. 323
American Support of Coalition Government	p. 326
The Civil War and the Nationalists on Taiwan	p. 331
Why the Nationalists Failed	p. 331
Nationalist Attack and Communist Counterattack	p. 334
Taiwan as a Japanese Colony	p. 337
Taiwan as the Republic of China	p. 339
The People's Republic of China	p. 343
Establishing Control of State and Countryside	p. 345
Creating the New State, 1949-1953	p. 345
Collectivizing Agriculture	p. 352
Collective Agriculture in Practice	p. 354
Beginning Industrialization	p. 357
Education and the Intellectuals	p. 359
The Anti-Rightist Campaign, 1957-1958	p. 365
The Great Leap Forward, 1958-1960	p. 368
Background Factors	p. 368
The Disaster of 1959-1960	p. 372
Revival: Seizing Control of Industrial Labor	p. 374
Party Rectification and Education	p. 376
The Sino-Soviet Split	p. 378
The Great Leap Forward as a Social Movement	p. 380
The Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976	p. 383
Underpinnings	p. 383
Mao's Aims and Resources	p. 385
Role of the People's Liberation Army	p. 387
How the Cultural Revolution Unfolded	p. 389
The Red Guards	p. 392
The Seizure of Power	p. 393
Foreign Affairs	p. 395
Decentralization and the Third Front	p. 397
The Succession Struggle	p. 400
The Cultural Revolution in Retrospect	p. 401
Aftermath	p. 404
The Post-Mao Reform Era	p. 406
Epilogue: China at the Close of the Century	p. 457
Note on Romanization and Citation	p. 472
Suggested Reading	p. 473
Publisher's Note	p. 429
Illustration Credits	p. 531
Author Index	p. 535
General Index	p. 545
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