THE EARLIEST TIMES
- Chapter Three. THE CHOU DYNASTY (c. 1028-257 B.C.)
- Chapter Four. THE CONTENDING STATES (481-256 B.C.): DISSOLUTION OF THE FEUDAL SYSTEM
- Chapter Five. THE CH'IN DYNASTY (256-207 B.C.)
THE MIDDLE AGES
- Chapter Six. THE HAN DYNASTY (206 B.C.-A.D. 220)
- Chapter Seven. THE EPOCH OF THE FIRST DIVISION OF CHINA (A.D. 220-580)
- Chapter Eight. THE EMPIRES OF THE SUI AND THE T'ANG
MODERN TIMES
- Chapter Nine. THE EPOCH OF THE SECOND DIVISION OF CHINA
- Chapter Ten. THE PERIOD OF ABSOLUTISM
- Chapter Eleven. THE REPUBLIC (1912-1948)
- Chapter Twelve. PRESENT-DAY CHINA
[Transcriber's Note: The following text contains numerous non-English words containing diacritical marks not contained in the ASCII character set. Characters accented by those marks, and the corresponding text representations are as follows (where x represents the character being accented). All such symbols in this text above the character being accented:
breve (u-shaped symbol): [)x]
caron (v-shaped symbol): [vx]
macron (straight line): [=x]
acute (egu) accent: ['x]
Additionally, the author has spelled certain words inconsistently. Those have been adjusted to be consistent where possible. Examples of such adjustments are as follows:
From To
Northwestern North-western
Southwards Southward
Programme Program
re-introduced reintroduced
practise practice
Lotos Lotus
Ju-Chen Juchen
cooperate co-operate
life-time lifetime
man-power manpower
favor favour
etc.
In general such changes are made to be consistent with the predominate usage in the text, or if there was not a predominate spelling, to the more modern.]