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A History of China
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Chapters
1.
A History of China
1:00
2.
A HISTORY OF CHINA
1:00
3.
Chapter I: PREHISTORY
1:00
4.
Chapter II: THE SHANG DYNASTY (c. 1600-1028 B.C.)
1:00
5.
Chapter III: THE CHOU DYNASTY (c. 1028-257 B.C.)
1:00
6.
Chapter IV: THE CONTENDING STATES (481-256 B.C.): DISSOLUTION OF THE FEUDAL SYSTEM
1:00
7.
Chapter V: THE CH'IN DYNASTY (256-207 B.C.)
1:00
8.
Chapter VI: THE HAN DYNASTY (206 B.C.-A.D. 220)
1:00
9.
Chapter VII: THE EPOCH OF THE FIRST DIVISION OF CHINA (A.D. 220-580)
1:55
10.
Chapter VIII: THE EMPIRES OF THE SUI AND THE T'ANG
1:00
11.
Chapter IX: THE EPOCH OF THE SECOND DIVISION OF CHINA
1:06
12.
Chapter X: THE PERIOD OF ABSOLUTISM
1:09
13.
Chapter XI: THE REPUBLIC (1912-1948)
1:00
14.
Chapter XII: PRESENT-DAY CHINA
1:00
15.
ILLUSTRATIONS
2:02
16.
MAPS
1:00
17.
INTRODUCTION
9:00
18.
PREHISTORY
29:01
19.
Chapter Two
22:27
20.
Chapter Three
64:36
21.
THE CONTENDING STATES (481-256 B.C.): DISSOLUTION OF THE FEUDAL SYSTEM
32:22
22.
THE CH'IN DYNASTY (256-207 B.C.)
18:54
23.
THE HAN DYNASTY (206 B.C.-A.D. 220)
103:29
24.
THE EPOCH OF THE FIRST DIVISION OF CHINA (A.D. 220-580)
156:23
25.
Part of the old imperial family and its following fled northward from Liu Yü and surrendered to the Toba. There they agitated for a campaign of vengeance against South China, and they were supported at the court of the Toba by many families of the gentry with landed interests in the south. Thus long-continued fighting started between Sung and Toba, concerned mainly with the domains of the deposed imperial family and its following. This fighting brought little success to south China, and about 450 it produced among the Toba an economic and social crisis that brought the wars to a temporary close. In this pause the Sung turned to the extreme south, and tried to gain influence there and in Annam. The merchant class and the gentry families of the capital who were allied with it were those chiefly interested in this expansion.
14:34
26.
THE EMPIRES OF THE SUI AND THE T'ANG
73:30
27.
THE EPOCH OF THE SECOND DIVISION OF CHINA
106:23
28.
THE PERIOD OF ABSOLUTISM
207:24
29.
THE REPUBLIC (1912-1948)
49:29
30.
PRESENT-DAY CHINA
41:45
31.
NOTES AND REFERENCES
70:20
32.
INDEX
22:34