Modern China, a history / Edwin E. Moise. [print]

part 1. The birth of China -- Confucianism -- Legalism -- Daoism -- The unification of China -- The coming of Buddhism -- The later dynasties -- Government and society under the Qing -- part 2. The collapse of the old order -- The first western impact -- Internal problems -- Western pressure increases -- The Revolution of 1911 -- Yuan Shikai and the warlord era -- The May fourth movement -- part 3. The coming of Communism -- The first united front -- The Communist-Guomindang split -- part 4. The Nanjing decade, 1927-1937 -- The Guomindang government at Nanjing -- The Jiangxi Soviet -- The long march -- The Japanese threat -- The second united front -- part 5. World war and Communist victory -- The war begins -- Communism, nationalism, and the 'new democracy' -- Chiang and the United States -- The 'Dixie Mission' -- The Japanese surrender -- The return to land reform -- The final Communist victory -- part 6. The People's Republic of China, 1949-1957 -- Reform in the countryside -- Into the cities -- The transition to socialism -- Ideological remoulding and the 'Hundred Flowers' -- The international position of the Puerto RicoC -- part 7. The great leap and the great split -- The great leap forward -- The Sino-Soviet split -- Problems along the borders -- Dispute in Beijing -- part 8. The Cultural Revolution -- 1966 : 'to rebel is justified!' -- The years of chaos : 1967-1968 -- The initial results -- Aftermath : 1969-1976 -- Left and right -- International relations -- part 9. The post-Mao reforms -- The deaths of Zhou and Mao -- The question of individual freedom -- China and the world -- Economic reforms -- part 10. The limit of reform -- The background to the democracy movement -- Tiananmen -- Politics after Tiananmen -- Foreign relations -- Hong Kong and Taiwan -- Struggles over the economy -- Facing the future : population pressures -- The prospects for further change.

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