TY - BOOK AU - Huang,Ray TI - China: a macro history SN - 1563247305 (cloth : alk. paper) AV - DS735 .H785 1997 U1 - 951 21 PY - 1997/// CY - Armonk, N.Y. PB - M.E. Sharpe KW - Geschichte KW - swd KW - China KW - History N1 - "An East gate book."; Includes bibliographical references and index; 1. Xi'an and the Loess Land -- 2. The Second Sage and the First Emperor -- 3. Soil, Wind, and Water -- 4. Behind the Terracotta Army -- 5. The First Empire: Establishing the Standard -- 6. Literati Turned Warlords -- 7. Prolonged Disunity -- 8. When Historical Components Sprawled Far and Wide -- 9. On the Road to Reunification -- 10. The Second Empire: A Breakthrough That Failed to Materialize -- 11. The Northern Song: A Daring Experiment -- 12. West Lake and the Southern Song -- 13. The Mongolian Interlude -- 14. The Ming: An Introverted and Noncompetitive State -- 15. The Late Ming -- 16. The Role of the Manchus -- 17. 1800: A Point for Reflection -- 18. From the Opium War to the Self-Strengthening Movement -- 19. The "Hundred Days," the Republic, and May Fourth -- 20. Contemporary China and Its Place in the World -- 21. Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macao -- Observations at the Closing of the Century ER -