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中國古代簡史：從史前文明到末代皇帝 
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9 7 1 8 5 7 0 5 7 0 0 0 1  《中國簡史：從史前文明到末代皇帝》（HistoryofChina:FromEarliestTimestotheLastEmperor）是一部直接面向海外讀者概覽性地介紹中華民族五千年歷史的優(yōu)秀圖書。它是國內首部由國內外學者合作編著的介紹中國歷史的圖書，其內容在保持中國敘述視角的同時，兼顧國外讀者的閱讀習慣，是一本普及中國歷史的優(yōu)秀讀物。 本書以歷史年代為序，再現(xiàn)了中華文明從遠古文明到清朝結束的發(fā)展歷程，全面回顧了自原始社會以來各個不同時期的中國歷史畫卷，涵蓋了中國歷史的主要內容，集中講述了歷史的變遷過程，較為系統(tǒng)地介紹了中國歷史的發(fā)展脈絡。是一部快速了解中國歷史及社會變遷的圖書。 ☆中外學者合作介紹中國歷史首部英文圖書 ☆歷史年代為序，全面梳理中國歷史 ☆以中國視角敘述，兼顧外國讀者閱讀習慣 ☆快速了解中國歷史，面向外國讀者普及讀物 Introduction The history of China is the story of the people who live between the coasts and the mountains and steppes of Inner Asia. Principally it is a history of settled agricultural communities, distinguished from and often in conflict with, the pastoral nomadic societies of the northern and western regions. The civilization that today we call Chinese originated in the north-central region of the mainland, around the Yellow River. It extends southwards to the Yangzi(or Yangtze), a formidable natural barrier, across which the state gradually asserted its authority. Ancient Chinese society emerged as a multiplicity of city states which were incorporated into the great empires of the Shang and Zhou. The authority of the Zhou Dynasty was exhausted in the fifth Century BCE and by then a network of independent statelets had emerged, in the era that became known as Spring and Autumn. Conflict between these statelets for dominance was reflected in the name for the following historical period the Warring States. When one of these statelets, the Qin, grew in size and authority and emerged as the victor in 221 BCE, its leader declared himself Qin Shi Huang, the First Emperor of Qin, and is regarded as the first of the long series of emperors who ruled China until the disintegration of the empire in 1911. This period set the pattern for the whole of the empire; the conflict between centralization and centrifugal political forces and between the settled and the pastoral lands. Since then, by and large, China has had powerful single rulers, emperors whose reign names mark successive periods of history. It would however be a mistake to assume that all of these emperors controlled the whole of the present-day territory of China or that they were Chinese in the commonly accepted modern sense. The great Tang Dynasty (618907) was extraordinarily inclusive and open-minded and is admired for its poetry and sculpted ceramics. Tang emperors governed most of the country but their family backgrounds included the Turkic-speaking aristocracy. The fate of the Song Dynasty (9601279) illustrates well the conflict between the tribes of the steppe and the settled Chinese which marked the remainder of the empire. The Song (Northern Song) began as a successor to the Tang, controlling much of the same territory, but it was faced with serious military challenges on its frontiers and lost much of its northern territory to nomadic tribes, principally the Khitan Liao and the Tangut Xixia, whose regimes in the lands that they conquered are known by Chinese dynastic names. The Song emperors were forced to retreat south and their reign, the Southern Songnotable above all for its fine paintinglasted until the Mongols from the steppes, having defeated the other northern tribes including the Khitan and the Tanguts, finally conquered the whole of China and declared themselves to be the Yuan Dynasty (12711368). The emperors of the Yuan all had Chinese reign titles but their language and culture was Mongolian and they were part of the great Mongolian empire that spanned the whole of Asia during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. This regime was resented by many Chinese as an alien occupationalthough many Chinese officials worked for itand when the Mongols were driven back to the steppes in the middle of the fourteenth century, the Ming Dynasty that was established in Nanjing by Zhu Yuanzhang was welcomed as a return to Chinese rule. The Ming lasted until 1644 when another northern people, the Manchus, produced a military apparatus that was able to overthrow the Chinese regime that had been weakened by corruption and internal power struggles. The Manchus took control of China, but, in order to rule it, had to cooperate with Chinese, Mongolian and Tibetan officials. Their dynasty, the Qing, was the last of the Chinese empire, although, ironically, it was not in the strict sense of the word a Chinese dynasty. As happened during the Yuan Dynasty, there was great opposition to Manchu control and a nationalist movement that emerged during the nineteenth century was strengthened by the inability of the government to resist commercial and military pressures from the maritime empires of Britain and the other Western powers. When the Manchu Qing regime was finally overthrown in 1911, the driving forces were the traditional ones of Chinese opposition to alien rule and the secession of provinces from the central government. However to this must be added a completely new element, the threat of Western encroachment which was to dominate the history of China in the early twentieth century. History is not, of course, confined to the past. It continues as we live and it informs the thinking not only of historians and the readers of history but those in power. Chinese thinkers, writers and rulers are acutely conscious of the history of their country: it is constantly referred to in the contemporary political discourse of the country, although not everyone draws the same conclusions about the lessons to be learned from it. Nevertheless, without an appreciation of the multicultural and multiethnic historical background, with its conflicts and compromises and the successes and failures of its successive rulers, it is impossible to understand China as it rises to world prominence during the twenty-first century.
邁克爾·迪倫（Michael Dillon），杜倫大學當代中國研究中心創(chuàng)始人，于該校東亞系任教。主要研究領域為中國歷史、政治和社會以及漢語。他擁有利茲大學中國研究專業(yè)的碩士和博士學位，是英國皇家歷史學會和皇家亞洲學會的會員。他是《中國季刊》《民族和種族研究》《內亞》等刊物的特約評審專家，經(jīng)常受邀做客BBC等國際廣播公司評論中國及亞洲事務，是《泰晤士報文學增刊》的常駐作者，并擔任由喬納森·劉易斯為BBC2、Granada和PBS（美國）頻道拍攝的一部中國主題的四集電視紀錄片的顧問。他精通中文，能說普通話和一些廣東話，并通曉新疆的維吾爾語。他出版的主要作品有《當代中國入門》（Routledge出版社,2008）、《現(xiàn)代中國史》（I.B.Tauris出版社，2010）。目前迪倫教授正在為Taylor & Francis出版社編輯《中國百科全書》一書。
Contents ListofIllustrationsxii NameandDateConventionsUsedintheContextxxxvii Introductionxxxix Chapter1 AncientCivilizations:RuleandPolitics (c.8500256BCE) THEORIGINSOFCIVILIZATIONAncientManinChinaTheEraofClanSocietiesTheDawnoftheChineseNationThreeBenevolentRulers:Yao,ShunandYuTHEEARLIESTDYNASTIESOFCHINARuleoftheXiaDynastyTheRiseandFalloftheShangDynastyTheFlourishingoftheWesternZhouDynastyDeclineoftheWesternZhouDynastyTHESPRINGANDAUTUMNPERIODDeclineoftheRoyalFamilyDukeHuanofQiandDukeWenofJinThreeSuccessiveHegemoniesWuandYuePushforPowerTHESEVENPOWERSOFTHEWARRINGSTATESPERIODSevenPowersLockedinRivalryReformMovementsintheSevenStatesAllianceandUnification Chapter2 AnEmergingState:SocietyandCulture OracleBonesinShangLifeTheBronzeAgeTheDevelopmentofAgricultureCraftsTheDujiangyanWeirsTheRiseoftheCityLiterature:BookofSongsandElegiesoftheSouthMusic:BellsandDrumsAstronomyMedicine Chapter3 TheFoundationsofPhilosophyandSchoolsofThought THECONTENTIONOFAHUNDREDSCHOOLSOFTHOUGHTConfucius:TeacherforAllAgesTheLegacyandDevelopmentofConfucianismDaoism:LetThingsRunTheirCourseTheMohistSchool:EarthlyAsceticsLegalism:FavoredbyRulersMilitaryStrategists:MastersoftheLawofWarTHECLASHOFSCHOOLSOFTHOUGHT Chapter4 UnificationundertheQinEmpire (221206BCE) RULEOFTHEQINEMPIREQinShiHuangsUnificationoftheCountryCentralizationoftheQinEmpireAReignofTyrannyTHEWONDERSOFTHEQINDYNASTYTheGreatWallQinShiHuangMausoleumTerracottaWarriorsandHorsesTHEFALLOFTHEQINDYNASTYThePeasantUprisingConflictbetweentheStatesofChuandHan Chapter5 TheRiseandFalloftheHanDynasty (220BCE280CE) THERISEOFTHEHANRebuildingbytheEarlyHanDynastyEmperorsWenandJingEmperorWuofHanDECLINEOFTHEWESTERNHANDYNASTYCorruptionintheMidandLateWesternHanTheBriefReignofWangMangREVIVALOFTHEHANCOURTTheFoundingoftheEasternHanDynastyPowerStruggles:CourtWomenandEunuchsTheFalloftheEasternHanDynastyFOREIGNRELATIONSDURINGTHEHANDYNASTYMarriageBringsPeaceBeyondtheGreatWallZhangQiansJourneystotheWesternRegionsTheSilkRoad Chapter6 Scientific,CulturalandPhilosophicalDevelopmentsundertheHan SCIENCEANDTECHNOLOGYOFTHEHANDYNASTYTheInventionofPaperTraditionalChineseMedicineAstronomyandMathematicsTHESTATUSOFIDEASINTHEHANDYNASTYTheRiseofDaoismTheSpreadofBuddhisminChinaEvolutionoftheScholarlyClassCULTUREOFTHEHANDYNASTYFirstMajorHistoricalWorksLiteratureandArt Chapter7 DisturbanceandStability:FromtheThreeKingdomstoaHundredYearsofJinRule (220420CE) THETHREEKINGDOMSTheBattleofGuanduTheBattleofRedCliffsEmergenceoftheThreeKingdomsWESTERNANDEASTERNJINBriefUnificationduringtheJinDynastyRebellionoftheEightPrincesTheHundred-YearRuleoftheEasternJin Chapter8 ThePoliticsandCultureoftheSouthernandNorthernDynasties (420589) THESOUTHERNDYNASTIESContentionoftheSixteenKingdomsRuleoftheSong,Qi,Liang,andChenTHENORTHERNWEIDYNASTYRapidRiseoftheNorthernWeiDynastyTheReformsofEmperorXiaowenCrumblingoftheNorthernWeiTheCrushingofBuddhismCULTURALDEVELOPMENTSDURINGTHESIXDYNASTIESLiteratureandArtTheStudyofHistoryandGeographyTheNaturalSciencesNEWPHILOSOPHICALEXPLORATIONSDarkLearningandtheSevenSagesoftheBambooGroveTheFlourishingofBuddhismTheDevelopmentofDaoism Chapter9 TheSuiDynasty (581618) TheFoundingoftheSuiDynastyTheRuleofEmperorWenTheFalloftheSuiDynastyTheGrandCanal Chapter10 TheGoldenEraoftheTangDynasty THEFOUNDINGANDGOVERNMENTOFTHETANGDYNASTYTheRiseoftheTangFamilyTheGoldenYearsofZhenguanTheUsurpingEmpressTheGoldenEraofKaiyuanTHETANGEMPIRELIFEINTHETANGWORLDAgricultureTradeandCommerceKeyInventions:WoodblockPrintingandGunpowderMedicineAstronomyTANGCULTUREANDCRAFTSPoetryNovelsCalligraphyPaintingMusicandDanceCrafts Chapter11 Decline,SeparationandTurbulence: TheDeclineoftheTangandRuleoftheSong THEDECLINEOFTHETANGDYNASTYTheAnLushanRebellionEffortstoRevivetheTangEmpireTurbulenceandDeclineASplinteredAge:FiveDynasties,TenKingdomsTheRiseoftheKhitanTHENORTHERNANDSOUTHERNSONGDYNASTIESTheFoundingoftheNorthernSongDynastyReformandStrifeintheMidtoLateNorthernSongTheCollapseoftheSouthernSongDynasty Chapter12 Co-existingRegimes:TheSong,Liao,Xia,andJin ConfrontationbetweenSongandLiaoTheRiseandFalloftheWesternXiaDynastyTheRiseoftheJinEmpireConfrontationbetweenSouthernSongandJin Chapter13 TheEnrichingLegacyoftheTangandSongDynasties AThrivingEconomyScience,Technology,andCulture Chapter14 TerritorialExpansionandCulturalFlowerings: TheYuanDynasty (12061368) THEFOUNDINGOFTHEYUANTerritorialExpansionoftheMongolEmpireUnificationWarTheYuanSystemofGovernmentYUANCULTUREANDECONOMYTheCapital,DaduEthnicIntegrationTheEconomyLiteratureandArtofSongandYuan Chapter15 CentralizedMonarchyoftheMingDynasty (13681644) THEFOUNDINGOFTHEMINGTheFalloftheYuanDynastyTheAbsoluteMonarchyoftheMingDynastyTurmoilwithintheMingCourtTHEMINGDYNASTYECONOMYANDFOREIGNPOLICYThrivingEconomyandAdministrationofItsLandMingsForeignPolicyChinasRelationshipwithItsNeighborsMerchantGuildsandBanking Chapter16 Piracy,WarandRebellion:theDeclineoftheMingandRiseoftheQing TURBULENCEANDDECLINEOFTHEMINGMingCostalDefenseEarlyColonialAggressionTheTumuCrisisRevivalEortsinLateMingThreeNotoriousAairsofCourtEunuchAbuseofPowerandtheDonglinMovementENDOFTHEMINGDYNASTYWaningMilitaryPowerRebellionoftheDashingKingTheDoomedSouthernMingCourtTheRiseoftheJurchensNurhaci:KhanofHeavensMandateHongTaijiFoundstheQingEmpire Chapter17 TheQing:FeudalismsFinalBow (16441911) CONSOLIDATIONOFTHEQINGEMPIREAnti-QingResistanceZhengChenggongsRecoveryofTaiwanSuppressionoftheThreeFeudatoriesbytheKangxiEmperorTheRecoveryofTaiwanBorderDefenseagainstTsaristRussiaSuppressionoftheDzungarRebellionandTorghutIntegrationSuppressionoftheUyghurRebellionandWarsagainstForeignIntrudersTheDalaiLamaandPanchenLamaTHEFINALFLOWERINGOFCHINESEFEUDALSOCIETYTheGrowingStrengthoftheMonarchyundertheQingDynastyProsperityoftheKangxi,Yongzheng,andQianlongReignsTheRulingCrisisoftheMidtoLateQingDynasty Chapter18 Learning,PhilosophicalThoughtandCultureundertheMingandQing TECHNOLOGYANDTHOUGHTSTheReconstructionofBeijingScience,Technology,andtheIntroductionofWesternLearningNeo-ConfucianismANewStageinConfucianismLITERATUREANDARTINTHEMINGDYNASTYVernacularFictionMass-MarketNovelsMingOperaCalligraphyandPaintingQINGCULTUREClassicalGardensGovernmentCulturalProjectsADreamofRedMansionsTheRisingPopularityofNovelsBreakthroughsinCalligraphyandPaintingBeijingOpera Chapter19 WarsandRebellion:TheOpiumWars,BoxerRebellionandForeignPowers THEOPIUMWARSChinaandtheWestbeforetheFirstOpiumWarTheDestructionofOpiuminHumenTheFirstOpiumWarTheSecondOpiumWarEmpressDowagerCixisRisetoPowerTheTaipingRebellionTheEndoftheTaipingHeavenlyKingdomWARINTHELATEQINGDYNASTYZuoZongtangsRecoveryofXinjiangTheSino-FrenchWarTheSino-JapaneseWarTheBoxerRebellionandtheAlliedForcesInvasionofChina Chapter20 WesternInfluences,ReformandDeathoftheQing TheChallengeofWesternCultureTheSelf-StrengtheningMovementTheRiseofCapitalismIdeasofReformTheHundredDaysReformTheQingCourtsDyingThroesTheRiseoftheRepublicConclusion Index448
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