Description

CONTENTS:

INTRODUCTION. DEFINITION OF CHINA
Chinese Isolation and Originality
Agrarian Foundations of Chinese Civilization
Variety and Unity of China
Chinese Continuity and Renewal

CHAPTER ONE: BEGINNINGS
The Neolithic Age
The Civilization of the Shang-Yin
A Regression: The Period of the Western Chou
The Civilization of the 'Warring States' : Art
The Civilization of the 'Warring States' : Ways of Thought
The Kingdom of Ch'in Forms the Empire of China

CHAPTER TWO: THE SONS OF HAN
Han Rule in China and in Upper Asia: The Western Han
Han Rule in China and in Central Asia: The Eastern Han
Art in the Han Period

CHAPTER THREE: REVOLUTIONS, INVASIONS, NEW RELIGIONS
The Fall of the Han and the Reversal of Values
The Great Crumbling. Period of the Six Dynasties
Invasion of China by Indian Culture. Propagation of Buddhism
Sinization of Buddhism
Wei Sculpture
After Two Hundred and Seventy Years of Tartar Invasions and of
Dismemberment, China Is Again Unified

CHAPTER FOUR: THE T'ANG PERIOD
Accession of the T'ang
The First T'ang Emperors and the Influence of Buddhism
At the Court of the T'ang. The Great Period

CHAPTER FIVE : THE SUNG PERIOD
Fall of the T'ang. The Five Dynasties
The Period of the Sung and the Confucianist Reaction
Painting under the Sung
The Pottery of the Sung

CHAPTER SIX: FROM THE MONGOLS TO THE MANCHUS
The Yuan
The Ming
The Ch'ing
Modern Times

Chronology of Chinese Dynasties

Index