ChapterⅠ Introduction 1
1.A Land of 9,600,000 Square Kilometres 1
2.Fifty-six Ethnic Groups and a Population of More Than 1,000,000,000 8
3.1,700,000 Years and 3,600 Years 16
ChapterⅡ Traces of Remote Antiquity 28
1.From Yuanmou Man to Peking Man；the Making of Tools and the Use of Fire 28
2.Dingcun(Tingsun)Man and Upper Cave Man；the Improve-ment of Tools and the Emergence of Ornaments 31
3.The Yangshao Culture and Its Matriarchal Communes 35
4.The Patriarchal Clan Society of the Longshan Culture 40
Chapter Ⅲ Myth and Legend 48
1.The Legends of Ancient Tribes 48
2.Tribal Chiefs,Gods and Their Sons 50
3.The Hereditary Monarchy of the Xia Dynasty 52
ChapterⅣ The Slave State of the Shang and Zhou Dynasties 56
1.The Earliest Written History 56
2.The Slave-owning Shang Dynasty 60
3.The Social Economy of the Shang Dynasty 64
4.The Rise of the Zhou and the Establishment of the Slave-owning Zhou Dynasty 69
5.Economic Development Under Zhou Slavery 75
6.The Zhou Dynasty from Prosperity to Decline 78
ChapterV The Early Eastern Zhou,Spring and Autrmn, and Warring States Periods:Transition from Slavery to Feudalism 81
1.The Early Easten Zhou and the Spring and Autumn Period:Contention for Supremacy Among the Major States 81
2.The Seven Powers of the Warring States Period 86
3.The Transition from Slavery to Feudalism 92
4.Confucius.Mo Zi,Other Thinkers and the Elegies of Chu 98
ChapterⅥ The Qin and Han Dynasties:the Growth of Feudal Society 112
1.The Qin,China s First Feudal Dynasty 112
2.Peasant Uprisings in the Late Qin Dynasty 116
3.Establishment and Consolidation of the Western Han Dynasty 120
4.Golden Age of the Western Han Dynasty 125
5.Decline of the Western Han Dynasty:Uprisings of the Green Woodsmen and Red Eyebrows 131
6.The Establishtment of the Eastern Han Dynasty,the Prolonged Turbulence,and the Yellow Turban Uprising 137
7.The Development of Social Productive Forces 147
8.The Growth of Feudal Relations 152
Chapter Ⅶ The Three Kingdoms,the Jin,the Southern and Northern Dynasties,the Sui and the Tang:the Ear-lier Period of Ascendancy of Chinese Feudalism 158
1.The Three Kingdoms 158
2.The Western Jin,the Eastern Jin and the Sixteen States 164
3.The Southern and Northern Dynasties 173
4.The Establishment of the Sui Dynasty and the Peasnat Upris-ings in Its Closing Years 184
5.The Golden Age of the Tang 190
6.Turmoil in the Mid-Tang Period 200
7.The Decline of the Tang Empire and the Late-Tang Peasant Uprisings 208
8.The Development of Social Productive Forces 216
9.The Development of Feudal Relations and the Feudalization of Regions Inhabited by Several Ethnic Group 224
Chapter Ⅷ The Five Dynasties,the Song and the Yuan:the Later Period of Ascendancy of Chinese Feudalism 231
1.The Five Dynasties and Ten States 231
2.Rise and Fall of the Northern Song；Uprisings by Wang Xiao-bo and Fang La 235
3.The Liao,the Xia and the Jin:Their Relations with the North-ern Song 245
4.Rival Regimes of the Song and the Jin；Uprisings by Zhong Xiang,Yang Yao and the Red Jackets 252
5.The Rise of the Mongols and the Fall of the Xia,the Jin and the Southern Song 260
6.Founding of the Yuan Dynasty and Peasant Uprisings During the Late Yuan 267
7.Further Growth of Social Productivity；Southward Shift of Econnomic Development 276
8.Further Development of Feudal Relations；Feudalization of the Border Regions 282
9.China s Communications with the Outside World 289
ChapterⅨ The Ming-Qing Period：the Twilight of Feudalism 295
1.Establishment of the Ming Dynasty 295
2.Decline of the Ming Dyansty；Refugee and Miner Uprisings 305
3.Decay of the Ming Dynasty；Peasant Uprisings Continued 310
4.Rise of the Manchus；Peasant Uprisings Towards the End of the Ming；Fall of the Ming Dynasty 321
5.Peasant Regime of the Great Shun；Princes of the Southern Ming；Unification Activities During the Early Qing Dynasty 337
6.Qing Rule Strengthened 346
7.Decline of the Qing；Uprisings of Different Ethnic Groups 357
8.The Decline of Feudalism and the Emergence of Sprouts of Capitalism 365
9.Arrival of Western Colonialism 378
ChapterX Semi-Colonial and Semi-Feudal Society；the Old De-mocratic Revolution 388
1.The Opium War 388
2.The Taiping Peasant War 393
3.The Second Opium War；Russia s Occupation of Chinese Territory 398
4.The Later Period of the Taiping Peasant War 403
5.Culture and Learning After the Opium War 408
6.Foreign Economic Aggression the Offic ial“Westerniza-tion”Drive 411
7.The Proletariat and the National Bourgeoisie in the Early Days；the Spread of Modern Western Science 414
8.Foreign Aggression and China’s Border Crises 418
9.The Sino-Japanese War and Imperialist Partition of China 422
10.The Modernization Movement of the Bourgeois Reformists 427
11.The Anti-Imperialist Patriotic Movement of the Yi He Tuan 434
12.The Rise of the Bourgeois Revolutionary Movement 439
13.The Founding of the Tong Meng Hui 445
14.The Wuchang Uprising；The Founding of the Republic of China and the Fall of the Qing Dynasty 449
15.The Period of Beiyang Warlord Rule 455
16.Ideology and Culture During the Period of Bourgeois Revo-lution 460
17.The Dawn of the Chinese Revolution 468
Chapter Ⅺ The Continuation of the Semi-Colonial and Semi-Feudal Society and the New-Democratic Revolution 474
1.The May 4th Movement and the Beginning of the New-democratic Revolution 474
2.The Development of the National Capitalist Economy and the Formation of the Programme of the Chinese Communist Party in the Democratic Revolution 488
3.The Evolution of the Beiyang Warlord Forces and the Rise of the National Revolutionary Movement 497
4.Northern Expeditionary War and Failure of the National Revolution 514
5.Establishment of Kuomintang Rule and the Beginning of the Soviet Revolution 528
6.Growth and Decline of the Kuomintang Factions and Setting-up of the Soviet Areas 536
7.The September 18th Incident and the Upsurge of the Nation-wide Anti-Japanese Democratic Movement.The Kuomintang Policy of “Internal Pacification Before Resistance to Foreign Invasion” 553
8.Fascist Rule of the Kuomintang Government.The Deepening and Expansion of the Soviet Revolution and the Long March of the Red Army 565
9.The Birth of New-democratic Economy.Economic Changes in the Kuomintang Area 581
10.Transition from Civil War to the War of Resistance Against Japan 589
11.The July 7th Incident and the Start of the Nationwide War of Resistance Against Japan.Three kinds of Political Power Exist simultaneously 605
12.Changes in the Situation of the Anti-Japanese War from the Stage of Stalemate 625
13.The Outbreak of the Pacific War.The Kuomintang Area and the Liberated Area in the Mid-Period of the Anti-Japanese War 641
14.The Political Struggle in the Later Stage of the Anti-Japanese War and the Final Victory of the War 656
15.Proposals of Political Parties Concerning National Recon-Struction.The Political Consultative Conference 672
16.The Outbreak of All-out Civil War.Radical Turn in Military and Political Situation in China 684
17.The Downfall of the Nanjing Regime and the Founding of the People s Republic of China 705
18.Philosophy,Historiography,Natural Science and Literature 725
Index 746