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The Cambridge Encyclopedia Of /r*The Cambridgoe Encyclopedia of Sr_\/A Editor Brian Hook University of Leeds Consultant Editor Denis Twitehett Princeton University The right of Iht University of Cambridge to print and sell all manner of books was granted by Henry VIII in 1S34. The University has printed and published continuously since IS84. CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS Cambridge New York Port Chester Melbourne Sydney 92 The individual, family and community 147 State of Jin Contents 93 The work unit 148 State of Qi 93 Hierarchy, authority and lineage 148 State of Chu 9 List of maps 95 The status of women 148 Wei Valley 10 Preface 96 Village society 149 Feudalism 11 Introduction: The Chineseness of China 97 Urban life 98 Social aspects of trade 149 The Qin Dynasty (221-206 BC) LANDAND RESOURCES 99 Secret societies 149 Qin 99 Social aspects of communes, production brigades 151 XiangYu(d. 202BC) 16 Geographical and Climatic Regions and teams 151 The Great Wall 17 General geography 151 Burning of the Books 23 The northeast 101 Law 24 The northern steppe 101 Codification 151 The Han Dynasty (202 BC-AD 220) 25 The north-central heartland 101 Penal system 151 Political ideas 26 The inner north 102 Collective punishment 151 Former Han 27 The lower Yangtze region 103 Customary law 155 Xiongnu 28 The middle Yangtze region 105 The communist legal system 155 Chang'an 29 The maritime south 155 Institutions 30 Sichuan and the southwest 107 Education 155 SimaQian(145-c. 90 BC) 31 The high plateaux 107 The traditional education system 156 Paper 32 The wild environments 109 The examination system . 156 Xin(AD9-23) 111 Literacy 156 Eunuchs in Qin and Han 34 Natural Resources 113 Socio-political use of character reform 156 Later Han 34 Energy resources 113 Printing 157 Luoyang 38 Metals and metallic ores 114 The introduction of Western higher education 157 Ban Gu (AD 32-92) 42 Other minerals 116 Education as indoctrination: traditional and 43 Cement modern 157 Wei, Jin and Northern and Southern 44 Fertilizers 117 The educational achievements of the People's Dynasties (AD 220-581) Republic 157 Historical perspective 45 Communications 158 Cao Cao (155-220) and the state of Cao Wei 45 Inland waterways 120 Health and Medicine (220-65) 46 Maritime shipping 120 Traditional medicine: social and philosophical 158 State of Wu (222-80) 47 Historic routes and trade patterns background 159 State of Shu (221-63) 48 The modern road system 123 Face and pulse diagnosis 159 WesternJin(265-316) 49 The railways 124 Conduit therapies 161 Eastern Jin (317-420), and southern dynasties 50 Civil aviation 124 Herbalism and pharmacology 162 Northern Wei (387-534) 51 The postal service 127 Traditional body care 162 Power struggle in the north 51 Radio and television 127 Traditional medical literature 163 The fall of the south 129 Western and Chinese medicine combined 52 The Economy 130 Anaesthesia 164 The Sui Dynasty (AD 581-618) 52 Development 131 Medical services 164 Wendi 54 Agriculture 165 Chang'an 59 Industrial development 132 Games and Sports 165 Yangdi 65 Hong Kong 132 Traditional games and sports 165 The Great Wall 65 Taiwan 133 Western sports 166 Grand Canal 66 Macao 166 The Turks THE CONTINUITY OF CHINA 166 Korea PEOPLES 166 The Tang Dynasty (ADM518-907) 136 Archaeology 68 Anthropology 166 Background 137 Legendary prehistory 167 Tang government 68 Origins of human culture in East Asia 138 Palaeolithic cultures 72 The Mongoloid family of peoples 138 Neolithic cultures 75 The expansion of the Han Chinese 173 Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms 142 Shang: The First Historical Dynasty (AD 907-59) 77 The Non-Han Cultures (c. 1554-1045 BC) 173 Background 7 7 The national minorities 173 Five Dynasties (north China) 142 The state 82 Scripts of the non-Han Chinese 174 The Ten Kingdoms 143 Divination 176 Tangut empire 144 Religion 84 External China 177 Khitan empire(Liaodynasty) 144 The economy 84 Historical perspective 144 Bronze working 85 Hong Kong and Macao 177 The Song Dynasty (AD 960-1279) 86 The Chinese overseas today 145 The Zhou Dynasty 177 Historical perspective 177 Taizu(ZhaoKuangyin)(928-76) (c. 1122-221 BC) SOCIETY 178 Taizong(ZhaoKuangyi)(939-97) 145 Western Zhou: Founding and founders 17 9 Huizong (Zhao Ji) (1082-1135) and the fall of 146 Eastern Zhou: 'Spring and Autumn' and the Northern Song 92 The Social Order Warring States Contents 179 Gaozong (1107-87) and the establishment of 212 Treaties of Nerchinsk and Kiakhta 250 New Fourth Army Incident Southern Song 212 Qianlong Emperor(1711-99) 250 Civil war 180 Government 213 Literary inquisition 252 Taiwan 181 The civil service and its recruitment 213 Suzhou and other handicraft centres 252 Chiang Kai-shek 181 New elites 214 Yangzhou salt merchants 182 The commercial revolution 214 White Lotus Rebellion (17 96-1805) 253 The People's Republic 183 The reforms of Wang Anshi (1021 -86) 215 Eight Trigrams Rebellion (1813) 253 Liberation 184 Kaifeng 215 The Canton system 254 Mao Zedong 185 TheLiaodynasty(904-1125) 216 The Macartney embassy 259 ZhouEnlai 187 Xixia(c. 990-1227) 216 The British East India Company 260 New Democracy 188 The Jin dynasty (1115-1234) 216 The Napier mission 261 Three-Anti and Five-Anti campaigns 188 Printing and the successful application of 217 Lin Zexu( 1785-1850) 262 Korean War technology 218 The Opium War 262 Land reform 188 Hangzhou 218 The Treaty of Nanjing 263 GaoGang 188 Urbanization and urban culture 218 The Taiping Rebellion 263 Agricultural cooperatives 189 Foreign relations 219 The Nian Rebellion 264 Five-year Plans 190 Neo-Confucianism 220 Muslim rebellions 265 The Hundred Flowers 220 Small Sword Society Uprising (Shanghai and 265 Anti-Rightist Campaign 191 The Yuan Dynasty (AD 1276-1368) vicinity. 1853-5) 265 Great Leap Forward 191 Emperors 220 Manchuria and Russia 266 The communes 192 Structure of government • 222 Xinjiang 267 PengDehuai 192 Economy 222 The Arrow War (1856-60) 267 Agricultural crisis 193 Factions and rebellions 223 Tongzhi Restoration 268 Tibet 194 Foreign relations 223 The Self-strengthening Movement (Ziqiang) 268 The Sino-lndian border dispute 194 Religion and philosophy 224 Guandu Shangban Enterprises 269 The Sino-Sovietconflict 194 Literature and art . , 224 ZengGuofan(1811-72) 270 Socialist Education Movement 194 Science and technology 224 LiHongzhang(1823-1901) 270 The two lines 225 ZongliYamen 270 Cultural Revolution 19 5 The Ming Dynasty (AD 1368-1644) 225 Treaty ports 273 Ninth Party Congress 195 ZhuYuanzhang Rebellion (1355-67) 225 Missionaries 274 The Ussuri Incident 196 The Hongwu Emperor, 'Grand Progenitor', the 226 Tianjin Massacre 274 Anti-Confucian campaign Ming dynasty's founder 226 Sino-French War (1884-5) 2 74 Tenth Party Congress 196 Yongle Emperor 227 Empress Dowager Cixi (1835-1908) 275 Tiananmen Incident. 1976 197 Dual capitals 227 Sino-JapaneseWar(1894-5) 276 Death of Mao Zedong 198 Zheng He 227 The Reform Movement of 1898 276 HuaGuofeng(b. 1920) 199 Grand Secretariat 229 The Boxer Uprising (1900) 277 'Gang of four' 199 Eunuchs 230 TheRusso-JapaneseWar(1904-5) 277 Deng Xiaoping (b. 1904) 200 The Ming lijia and baojia systems 230 Tongmenghui 279 Four Modernizations 200 The gentry and the Ming examination system 230 Constitutional Movement 280 The opening of China to the West 200 Tribute and trade 231 Railway Protection Movement 280 Eleventh Party Congress 201 Mongol wars 231 Wuchang Uprising: the Republican Revolution of 280 ZhaoZiyang(b. 1919) 201 Japan—diplomacy, trade and piracy 1911 281 Democracy Wall 202 Jiajing and Wanli reigns 232 Manchu abdication (1912) 281 Twelfth Party Congress 202 Merchant colonization 281 Spiritual Pollution Campaign 202 Huizhou and Shanxi merchants 233 The Republican Period (1912-49) 281 Thirteenth Party Congress 203 Single-whip tax reform (Yi tiao bian) 233 SunYat-sen(1866-1925) 282 The Beijing massacre 203 Jingdezhen, the ceramic centre 234 YuanShikai(1859-1916) 284 Li Peng (b. 1928) 204 Tiangongkaiwu, technological encyclopedia 235 Parliaments 284 Jiang Zemin (b. 1926) 204 Bencao gang mu 235 Warlords 285 People's Liberation Army 204 WangYangming 236 The May Fourth Movement 285 China's nuclear capability 205 Donglin Academy 237 The Guomindang 285 Taiwan (1949-79) 205 Matteo Ricci 237 The Chinese Communist Party 205 Li Zicheng Rebellion 238 The United Front THE MIND AND SENSES OF CHINA 239 Peng Pai and the peasants' movement 206 The Qing Dynasty (AD 1644-1912) 240 The Northern Expedition 288 Beliefs, Customs and Folklore 241 The Shanghai coup 206 Historical perspective 288 Cosmology 241 Nanjing government 208 Nurhachi(1559-1626) 288 Divination 242 New Life Movement 208 Abahai( 1592-1643) 291 Ancestor worship 243 Manchukuo 209 Manchu banner system 294 Folk religion 209 Shanhaiguan invasion 243 Jiangxi Soviet 244 The Long March 209 Dorgon( 1612-50) 296 Philosophy and Religion 209 Manchu-Chinese dyarchy 245 Marco Polo Bridge Incident 246 Anti-Japanese War and United Front 296 Daoism 209 KangxiEmperor(1654-1722) 301 Confucianism 210 Rites Controversy 247 Chongqing 248 Joseph Stilwell 304 Buddhism 210 Three Feudatories Revolt 309 Other schools of philosophy 210 Tibet 249 Yan'an 249 Rectification campaigns 313 Judaism 211 Turkestan 314 Manichaeism Contents 314 Zoroastrianism 390 Gold 452 Mining industry. 1911-49 314 Islam 390 Silver 453 Mining industry and training, 1949 onwards 317 Christianity 391 Sculpture 454 Civil engineering, 1911-49 319 Late Qing and early 20th-century thought 393 Jade 454 Civil engineering and training. 1949 onwards 321 Chinese thought since the May Fourth Movement 394 Ivory 395 Symbolism in art APPENDICES 397 Pictorial
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