A brief history of Chinese and Japanese civilizations

Synopsis

Preface. Part I: THE CLASSICAL CIVILIZATION OF CHINA. 1. Chinese Antiquity. 2. The Age of Philosophers. 3. The First Empire: 221 B.C.-A.D. 220. Part II: CHINA AND JAPAN IN A BUDDHIST AGE. 4. China during the Period of Disunity. 5. The Cosmopolitan Civilization of the Sui and Tang. 6. Early Japan To 794. 7. Heian Japan. Part III: CHINA AND JAPAN: GENTRY AND SAMURAI. 8. China during the Song: 960-1279. 9. The Mongol Empire and The Yuan Dynasty. 10. The Ming Dynasty: 1368-1644. 11. Japan in the Kamakura Period: 1185-1333. 12. The Ashikaga Shogunate and The Period of Unification. 13. East Asia and Modern Europe: First Encounters. Part IV: TRADITIONAL CHINA AND JAPAN: THE LAST PHASE. 14. China under the Manchus. 15. Tokugawa Japan. Part V: CHINA AND JAPAN IN THE MODERN WORLD. 16. The Intrusion of the West: China. 17. The Intrusion of the West: Japan. 18. The Emergence of Modern Japan: 1874-1894. 19. Self-Strengthening In China: 1874-1894. 20. End of the Old Order and Struggle for the New: China. 21. The Limits of Success: Japan, 1895-1931.