书  名: A General History of China（中国通史英文版六卷本）
　　作者简介
　　瞿林东：现任北京师范大学资深教授，博士生导师，北京师范大学史学理论与史学史研究中心主任，兼任中国史学会理事、中华炎黄文化研究会理事、中国史学会史学理论分会副会长、教育部普通高等学校人文社会科学咨询委员会委员等职。 瞿林东教授长期从事史学理论与史学史方面研究，在中国史学史领域有所建树，所著《唐代史学论稿》、《中国史学史纲》曾先后获得北京市哲学社会科学优秀成果二等奖。  
　　内容简介 《中国通史》是一部全面展示中华民族五千年历史进程的大型丛书。它历时多年，汇聚了全国一流的专家学者，运用史诗般的宏大叙事手法，再现了中华文明从原始社会到清朝灭亡的发展历程。
　　   本书以历史年代为序，全面回顾了自原始社会以来各个不同时期的中国历史画卷，涵盖了中国历史的主要内容，集中讲述了历史的变迁过程，再现了  一件件重要的历史事件、一个个有着深远影响的历史人物等等，较为系统地介绍了中国历史的发展脉络。
　　   该书内容涉及历史、政治、经济、军事、哲学、宗教、文学、艺术、语言、考古、天文、地理、科技、人物、民俗以及中外交流等方面，涵盖了中华民族在各个时期所创造的灿烂辉煌的传统文化，既博大精深又雅俗共赏。
　　
　　分册标题
　　第一卷 先秦
　　第二卷 秦汉
　　第三卷 从三国到隋唐
　　第四卷 从五代到元朝
　　第五卷 明朝
　　第六卷 清朝
　　
　　Volume 1: The Pre-Qin Period
　　Volume 2: The Qin and Han Dynasties
　　Volume 3: From the Three Kingdoms Period to the Sui and Tang Dynasties
　　Volume 4: From the Five Dynasties Period to the Yuan Dynasty
　　Volume 5: The Ming Dynasty
　　Volume 6: The Qing Dynasty
　　

　　
　　目录
　　ONE  THE ORIGINS OF CIVILISATION  3
　　1 Ancient Man in China 4
　　2 The Era of Clan Society 14
　　
　　TWO  DAWN OF THE CHINESE NATION 27
　　1 The First Ancestor of China  28
　　2 Three Benevolent Rulers - Yao, Shun and Yu  38
　　
　　THREE  EARLIEST DYNASTIES OF CHINA  49
　　1 Family Rule of the Xia Dynasty 50
　　2 Rise and Fall of the Shang Dynasty  60
　　3 The Flourishing Western Zhou Dynasty 70
　　4 Decline of the Western Zhou Dynasty 80
　　
　　FOUR  ENIGMATIC CULTURE OF EARLY CHINA  91
　　1 Writing on Tortoise-Shells and Animal Bones 92
　　2 The Bronze Age 102
　　
　　FIVE  FIVE OVERLORDS OF THE SPRING AND AUTUMN PERIOD  115
　　1 Duke Huan of Qin and Duke Wen of Jin 116
　　2 Three Hegemonies Emerging One after Another  128
　　3 Struggles for Hegemony by the States of Wu and Yue 138
　　
　　SIX  SEVEN POWERS OF THE WARRING STATES PERIOD   151
　　1 Seven Powers Locked in Rivalry 152
　　2 Reform Movements in the Seven States 164
　　3 Alliance and Unification 176
　　
　　SEVEN  AN ERA OF GREAT CHANGES  189
　　1 Changes to Production 190
　　2 The Magnificent Dujiangyan Weirs 198
　　3 Rise of the City 208
　　
　　EIGHT  CULTURAL PROSPERITY IN THE PRE-QIN PERIOD  219
　　1 Book of Songs and Elegies of the South 220
　　2 Bell and Drum Music 232
　　3 Advances in Technology 242
　　
　　NINE  CONTENTION OF A HUNDRED SCHOOLS OF THOUGHT (I)   253
　　1 Confucius: Teacher of All Ages 254
　　2 Inheritance and Development of Confucianism 266
　　3 Taoism: Let Things Run Their Course 276
　　
　　TEN  CONTENTION OF A HUNDRED SCHOOLS OF THOUGHT (II)   289
　　1 Mohist School: Earthly Ascetics 290
　　2 Legalism: Favoured by Rulers 300
　　3 Military Strategists: Masters on the Law of War  312
　　4 Clash of Views Among Various Schools of Thought 324
　　
　　ELEVEN  THE GREAT QIN EMPIRE 337
　　1 Qin Shi Huang's Unification of the Country 338
　　2 Centralisation System of the Qin Empire 350
　　3 Peasant Uprising at the End of the Qin Dynasty 360
　　
　　TWELVE  WONDERS OF THE QIN DYNASTY  371
　　1 The Great Wall 372
　　2 Qin Shi Huang Mausoleum 382
　　3 Terracotta Warriors and Horses 390
　　
　　THIRTEEN  THE GREAT HAN EMPIRE  403
　　1 Contention between the States of Chu and Han 404
　　2 Rehabilitation in the Early Han Dynasty 416
　　3 Reign of Emperors Wen and Jing 426
　　
　　FOURTEEN  EMPEROR WU OF HAN  437
　　1 Political and Military Achievements 438
　　2 Ruling Strategy 448
　　
　　FIFTEEN  DECLINE OF THE WESTERN HAN DYNASTY   459
　　1 Corrupt Ruling of mid-and late Western Han 460
　　2 A Short-lived Dynasty: The New Regime of Wang Mang 472
　　
　　SIXTEEN  REJUVENATION OF THE HAN COURT  485
　　1 Founding of the Eastern Han Dynasty  486
　　2 Power Struggles between Families of Court Women and Court Eunuchs  496
　　3 Fall of the Eastern Han Dynasty  508
　　
　　
　　SEVENTEEN ETHNIC AND FOREIGN RELATIONS DURING THE HAN DYNASTY  521
　　1 Peace by Marriage beyond the Great Wall  522
　　2 Zhang Qian's Journeys to Western Regions  534
　　3 The Silk Road  544
　　
　　
　　EIGHTEEN  SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF THE HAN DYNASTY  555
　　1 Invention of Paper  556
　　2 Development of Traditional Chinese Medicine  566
　　3 Earth Science and Mathematics  578
　　
　　
　　NINETEEN  THRIVING THOUGHTS OF THE HAN DYNASTY   591
　　1 Rise of Taoism  592
　　2 Buddhism's Spread in China  604
　　3 Cultural Unification  616
　　
　　
　　TWENTY  CULTURE OF THE HAN DYNASTY  629
　　1 First Major Historical Works  630
　　2 Literature and Art  640
　　
　　TWENTY-ONE THREE KINGDOMS  653
　　1 The Battle of Guandu  654
　　2 The Battle of Red Cliffs  666
　　3 Emergence of the Three Kingdoms  678
　　
　　TWENTY-TWO  WESTERN AND EASTERN JIN  691
　　1 A Brief Unification During the Western Jin Dynasty  692
　　2 Disturbances by the Eight Princes  702
　　3 Rule of Eastern Jin for One Hundred Years  712
　　
　　TWENTY-THREE  SOUTHERN AND NORTHERN DYNASTIES  725
　　1 Contention of the Sixteen Kingdoms  726
　　2 Rules of the Song, Qi, Liang and Chen Regimes  738
　　
　　TWENTY-FOUR  NORTHERN WEI DYNASTY  751
　　1 Rapid Rise of the Northern Wei Dynasty  752
　　2 Reform by Emperor Xiaowen  764
　　3 Crumbling of the Northern Wei  776
　　4 A Massive Suppression of Buddhism  788
　　
　　TWENTY- FIVE  CULTURAL DEVELOPMENTS DURING THE SIX DYNASTIES   799
　　1 Literature and Art  800
　　2 The Study of History and Geography  810
　　3 Natural Sciences  822
　　
　　TWENTY- SIX  NEW EXPLORATIONS IN PHILOSOPHY  833
　　1 Dark Learning and the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove  834
　　2 The Flourishing of Buddhism  844
　　3 The Development of Taoism  854
　　
　　TWENTY- SEVEN  THE SUI DYNASTY   867
　　1 The Founding of the Sui Dynasty  868
　　2 The Rule of Emperor Wen  878
　　3 The Fall of the Sui Dynasty  888
　　4 The Grand Canal  898
　　
　　TWENTY- EIGHT  THE TANG DYNASTY   911
　　1 The Founding of Tang  912
　　2 The Reign of Emperor Taizong  922
　　3 China's Only Female Emperor Wu Zetian:  932
　　
　　TWENTY- NINE GOLDEN ERA OF KAIYUAN   943
　　1 The Reign of Emperor Xuanzong  944
　　2 A Thriving Economy  956
　　3 Science and Technology  968
　　
　　THIRTY  ETHNIC AND FOREIGN RELATIONS OF THE TANG DYNASTY  981
　　1 Tang Ethnic Relations (I)  982
　　2 Tang Ethnic Relations (II)  994
　　3 Tang Foreign Relations  1008
　　
　　THIRTY- ONE  TANG DYNASTY ART AND LITERATURE   1021
　　1 Poetry  1022
　　2 Tang Classical-language Tales  1036
　　3 Calligraphy and Painting in the Tang Dynasty  1048
　　4 Music and Dance and Mogao Grottoes   1062
　　
　　THIRTY- TWO  DECLINE OF TANG   1075
　　1 The An-Shi Rebellion  1076
　　2 Rejuvenation Efforts by Tang Emperors 1089
　　3 Turbulent Reign and Decline  1099
　　
　　THIRTY- THREE   AGE OF SEPARATION  1109
　　1 Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms  1110
　　2 Rise of Khitan  1122
　　
　　THIRTY- FOUR  The SOUTHERN AND NORTHERN SONG DYNASTIES    1133
　　1 The Founding of the Northern Song Dynasty  1140
　　2 Reform and Partisan Strife in the Mid to Late Northern Song  1154
　　3 The Collapse of the Southern Song Dynasty  1166
　　
　　THIRTY-FIVE  COEXISING REGIMES (I)   1169
　　1 Confrontation between Song and Liao  1170
　　2 The Rise and Fall of the Western Xia Dynasty  1180
　　
　　THIRTY-SIX  COEXISING RE GIMES (II)   1191
　　1 Rise of the Jin Empire  1192
　　2 Confrontation between Southern Song and Jin  1204
　　
　　THIRTY- SEVEN  SOCIAL LIFE AND ECONOMY OF SONG  1217
　　1 A Thriving Economy in Southern China  1218
　　2 Commercial Prosperity  1228
　　3 A Colourful Social Life  1238
　　
　　THIRTY-EIGHT  SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE OF TANG AND SONG   1249
　　1 Three Great Chinese Inventions  1250
　　2 Historical Studies  1260
　　3 Eight Prose Masters  1272
　　
　　THIRTY-NINE FOUNDING OF YUAN  1285
　　1 Territorial Expansion of the Mongol Empire  1286
　　2 Unification War  1295
　　3 Governing System  1308
　　
　　FORTY  YUAN DYNASTY CULTURE AND ECONOMY   1319
　　1 The Capital City of Dadu  1320
　　2 Multi-ethnic Integration  1331
　　3 Economy  1340
　　
　　FORTY-ONE LITERATURE AND ART OF SONG AND YUAN   1353
　　1 Poetry  1354
　　2 Yuan Qu Drama  1364
　　3 Calligraphy and Painting  1374
　　
　　FORTY-TWO  CENTRALISED MONARCHY OF THE MING DYNASTY   1389
　　1 Downfall of the Yuan Dynasty  1390
　　2 Strengthened Monarchy of the Ming Dynasty  1401
　　3 Ming Royal Court Internal Turmoil  1411
　　
　　FORTY-THREE  MING DYNASTY ECONOMY AND ETHNIC RELATIONS  1423
　　1 Wise Rule of Founding Emperors  1424
　　2 Zheng He's Voyages  1436
　　3 Relationship between China and Ethnic Groups  1444
　　4 Merchant Guilds and Banking  1454
　　
　　FORTY-FOUR  MING DYNASTY COASTAL DEFENCE    1465
　　1 Japanese Pirates  1466
　　2 Early Colonial Aggression  1476
　　
　　FORTY-FIVE  DECLINE OF THE MING DYNASTY   1487
　　1 The Tumu Crisis and Defence of Beijing  1488
　　2 Zhang Juzheng's Reform  1499
　　3 Three Notorious Court Cases  1511
　　4 Eunuch Abuse of Power and the Donglin Movement  1522
　　
　　FORTY-SIX  END OF THE MING DYNASTY   1535
　　1 Weakening Military Power  1536
　　2 Rebellion of the 'Dashing King'  1548
　　3 The Doomed Southern Ming Court  1558
　　
　　FORTY-SEVEN  CULTURE AND THOUGHT OF MING AND QING   1571
　　1 The Reestablishment of Beijing  1572
　　2 Science and Technology and the Introduction of Western Learning  1586
　　3 Neo-Confucianism  1598
　　4 A New Stage of Confucianism  1610
　　
　　FORTY-EIGHT  LITERATURE AND ART IN THE MING DYNASTY   1621
　　1 Vernacular Fiction  1622
　　2 Marketplace Novels  1634
　　3 Ming Opera  1644
　　4 Painting and Calligraphy  1655
　　
　　FORTY-NINE  RISE OF ETHNIC TRIBES   1667
　　1 The Valiant Jurchen  1668
　　2 Nurhaci: Khan of Heaven's Mandate  1678
　　3 Hong Taiji Founds the Qing Empire  1690
　　
　　FIFTY  THE FINAL STRUGGLE   1703
　　1 Anti-Qing Resistance  1704
　　2 Zheng Chenggong's Recovery of Taiwan  1714
　　
　　FIFTY-ONE  GREAT QING ACCOMPLISHMENTS (I)  1729
　　1 Suppression of the Three Feudatories by Emperor Kangxi   1730
　　2 Recovery of Taiwan  1740
　　3 Border Defence against Tsarist Russia  1750
　　
　　FIFTY-TWO  GREAT QING ACCOMPLISHMENTS (II)  1761
　　1 Suppression of the Dzungar Rebellion and the Torghuts' Integration  1762
　　2 Suppression of the Uyghur Rebellion and Wars Against Foreign Intruders  1770
　　3 Dalai Lama and Panchen Lama  1780
　　
　　FIFTY-THREE  SUNSET OF CHINA FEUDAL SOCIETY  1793
　　1 Strengthening Monarchy of the Qing Dynasty  1794
　　2 Prosperity of the Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong Reigns  1802
　　3 Ruling Crisis of the Mid to Late Qing Dynasty  1812
　　
　　FIFTY-FOUR  QING CULTURE  1823
　　1 Classical-Style Gardens  1824
　　2 Great Cultural Government Projects  1834
　　3 A Dream of Red Mansions  1844
　　4 The Rising Popularity of Novels  1854
　　5 Breakthroughs with Calligraphy and Painting  1864
　　6 Beijing Opera  1874
　　
　　FIFTY-FIVE   OPIUM WAR (I)  1885
　　1 China and the West before the First Opium War  1886
　　2 The Destruction of Opium in Humen  1894
　　3 The First Opium War (1840-1842)  1904
　　
　　FIFTY-SIX  OPIUM WAR (II)   1915
　　1 The Second Opium War (1856-1860)  1916
　　2 Empress Dowager Cixi's Rise to Power  1926
　　
　　FIFTY-SEVEN  TAIPING HEAVENLY KINGDOM   1937
　　1 Taiping Rebellion  1938
　　2 End of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom  1948
　　
　　FIFTY-EIGHT  WAR IN THE LATE QING DYNASTY    1959
　　1 Zuo Zongtang's Recovery of Xinjiang  1960
　　2 Sino-French War (1883-1885)  1970
　　3 Sino-Japanese War (1894-1895)  2080
　　4 The Boxer Rebellion and the Eight-Power Allied Forces' Invasion of China  2090
　　
　　FIFTY-NINE  AWAKENING AND REFORM   2001
　　1 Introducing Knowledge from the West  2002
　　2 The Self-strengthening Movement  2012
　　3 The Rise of National Capitalism  2022
　　4 Ideas of Reform  2032
　　5 The Hundred Days' Reform  2042
　　
　　SIXTY  DOWNFALL OF THE QING DYNASTY   2053
　　1 Final Throes of the Qing Dynasty  2054
　　2 The Conclusion of Qing  2064
　　
　　Appendix
　　List of Rulers of China
　　List of Chinese Literary, Painting and Calligraphy Works
　　
　　
　　
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　　《中国通史》是一部全面展示中华民族五千年历史进程的大型丛书，再现了中华文明从原始社会到清朝灭亡的发展历程。
　　   本书甄选2000余幅历史图片，以年代为序，全面回顾了自原始社会以来各个不同时期的中国历史画卷，涵盖了中国历史的主要内容，集中讲述了历史的变迁过程，再现了  一件件重要的历史事件、一个个有着深远影响的历史人物等等，较为系统地介绍了中国历史的发展脉络。
　　   该书内容涉及历史、政治、经济、军事、哲学、宗教、文学、艺术、语言、考古、天文、地理、科技、人物、民俗以及中外交流等方面，涵盖了中华民族在各个时期所创造的灿烂辉煌的传统文化，既博大精深又雅俗共赏。