The Xenophile Historian

Contents

(and malcontents)

	Chapter 1: An Introduction to Chinese History
	Chapter 2: The Development of Chinese Civilization (before 255 B.C.)
	Chapter 3: The First Chinese Empire (255 B.C. to 220 A.D.)
	Chapter 4: The Zenith of Chinese Civilization (220 to 1279 A.D.)
	Chapter 5: Mongols, Mings and Manchus (1279 to 1911 A.D.)
	Chapter 6: The Nationalist Years (1911 to 1949 A.D.)
	Chapter 7: China Since 1949
	Special Pages

Chapter 1: An Introduction to Chinese History

	Geography
	The Chinese View of History
	A Word About Spelling

Chapter 2: The Development of Chinese Civilization

Before 255 B.C.

	Mythical and Legendary Times
	The Shang or Yin Dynasty
	The Western Zhou Dynasty
	The Eastern Zhou Dynasty
	The Age of Warring States Begins
	The Hundred Schools of Thought
	Confucius
	Daoism
	Mozi
	Yang Zhu
	Mencius
	Xunzi
	Zhuangzi
	Legalism

Chapter 3: The First Chinese Empire

255 B.C. to 220 A.D.

	The Kingmakers of Qin
	The Qin Dynasty
	The Western Han Dynasty
	The Xin and Eastern Han Dynasty
	Backdrop to the Three Kingdoms Era

Chapter 4: The Zenith of Chinese Civilization

220 to 1279 A.D.

	China's Medieval Age
	The Sui Dynasty
	The Tang Dynasty
	The Tang Decline
	The Song Dynasty

Chapter 5: Mongols, Mings and Manchus

1279 to 1911

	The Yuan Dynasty
	The Ming Dynasty
	Kangxi
	Qianlong
	The Opium War
	The Taiping Rebellion and the Arrow War
	The Paper Dragon
	The Boxer Rebellion

Chapter 6: The Nationalist Years

1911 to 1949

	The Warlord Period
	Chiang Kai-shek vs. the Communists
	The Long March
	The Second Sino-Japanese War Begins
	Stalemate & Stagnation
	Ichigo
	The Final Showdown

Chapter 7: China Since 1949

	The Establishment of the People's Republic
	The Great Leap Forward
	"Women Hold Up half of the Heavens"
	The Cultural Revolution
	The Lifting of the Bamboo Curtain
	After Mao
	Tragedy at Tiananmen
	The Rise of the Mainland Technocracy
	China in the Twenty-First Century (so far)
	Today's China Syndrome
	Taiwan: The Little Dragon

Click here for a map of present-day China (268 KB, will open in a separate window).

The Emperors of China

Map of how China's borders have changed over the age, from 1000 B.C. to the present (1MB, will open in a separate window).