Demystifying China : new understandings of Chinese history / edited by Naomi Standen.
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Lanham :
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.,
2013.
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Table of Contents:
- Chronology of China's Rulers
- Notes on Romanization, Names, and Chinese Characters
- Introduction: The Creation of History in China / Naomi Standen
- Part I. Images of an Ancient and United Nation
- The Chinese / Peter C. Perdue
- The Great Wall / Peter Lorge
- Foreign Conquerors of China / Naomi Standen
- Confucius : The Key to Understanding China / Tim Barrett
- Part II. Cultural Traditions
- The "Decline" of Buddhism in China / Tansen Sen
- Islam in China / Michael Brose
- Chinese Medicine / Bridie Andrews
- Traditional Chinese and the Environment / Ling Zhang
- Chinese Martial Arts / Stanley Henning
- Women in Chinese History / Clara Wing-chung Ho
- Part III. Imperial China
- China's Age of Seafaring / Ruth Mostern
- Civil Service Examinations / Elif Akcetin
- Xinjiang at the Center / Judd Kinzley
- Tibet / Elliott Sperling
- Modern China's Borders / Andres Rodriguez
- The Opium War and China's "Century of Humiliation" / Julia Lovell
- Part IV. Making Modern China
- Sun Yat-sen / Wasana Wongsurawat
- Republican China under the Nationalists, ca. 1925-1945 / Felix Boecking
- The Rise of the Chinese Communist Party / Christian Hess
- Simplified Characters / Imre Galambos
- The One-Child Policy / Barbara Mittler
- The Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976 / Marjorie Dryburgh
- China's Political System / Hai Ren
- Tiananmen 1989 / Fabio Lanza.