Vol. 1. edited by Denis Twitchett and Michael Loewe; vol. 2. edited by Albert E. Dien, Keith N. Knapp; vol. 5, pt. 1 edited by Denis Twitchett and Paul Jakov Smith; vol. 5, pt. 2 edited by John W. Chaffee and Denis Twitchett ; vol. 6 edited by Herbert Franke and Denis Twitchett; vol. 7-8 edited by Frederick W. Mote and Denis Twitchett; v. 9. edited by Willard J. Peterson; v. 11 edited by John F. Fairbank and Kwang-Ching Liu; v. 13 edited by John K. Fairbank and Albert Feuerwerker; v. 14-15 edited by Roderick MacFarquhar and John K. Fairbank

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

v. 1. The Ch��in and Han Empires, 221 B.C.-A.D. 220: Introduction / Michael Loewe -- The state and empire of Ch'in / Derk Bodde -- The Former Han dynasty / Michael Loewe -- Wang Mang, the restoration of the Han dynasty, and Later Han / Hans Bielenstein -- The conduct of government and the issues at stake (A.D. 57-167) / Michael Loewe -- The fall of Han / B.J. Mansvelt Beck -- Han foreign relations / Y�� Ying-shih -- The structure and practice of government / Michael Loewe -- The institutions of Later Han / Hans Bielenstein -- Ch'in and Han law / A.F.P. Hulsew�� -- The economic and social history of Former Han / Nishijima Sadao -- The economic and social history of Later Han / Patricia Ebrey -- The religious and intellectual background / Michael Loewe -- The concept of sovereignty / Michael Loewe -- The development of the Confucian schools / Robert P. Kramers -- Confucian, Legalist and Taoist thought in Later Han / Ch'en Ch'i-y��n -- Philosophy and religion from Han to Sui / Paul Demi��ville -- Postscript to chapter 16 / Timothy Barrett

v. 2. The Six Dynasties, 220-589: History -- Wei / Rafe de Crespigny -- Wu / Rafe de Crespigny -- Shu-Han / J. Michael Farmer -- Western Jin / Damien Chaussende -- Eastern Jin / Charles Holcombe -- The Sixteen Kingdoms / Charles Holcombe -- Cheng-Han State / Terry F. Kleeman -- Northern Wei / Scott Pearce -- Eastern Wei-Northern Qi / Albert E. Dien -- Western Wei-Northern Zhou / Albert E. Dien -- The Southern Dynasties / Andrew Chittick -- Part 2. Society and Realia. The Art of War / David A. Graff -- Foreign Relations / Charles Holcombe -- The Northern Economy / Victor Cunrui Xiong -- The Southern Economy / Liu Shufen -- Agriculture / Francesca Bray -- The History of Sogdians in China / Rong Xinjiang -- Northern Material Culture / Shing M��ller -- Southern Material Culture / Annette Kieser -- Women, Families, and Gendered Society / Jen-Der Lee -- Local Society / Hou Xudong -- Part 3. Culture, Religion, and Art. Confucian Learning and Influence / Keith N. Knapp -- Qingtan and Xuanxue / Yuet Keung Lo -- Buddism / John Kieschnick -- Daoism / Stephen R. Bokenkamp -- Popular Religion / Robert Ford Campany -- The World of Prose Literature / Antje Richter -- The World of Poetry / Cynthia L. Chennault -- Art and Visual Culture / Wu Hung -- Music / Bo Lawergren

v. 3. Sui and T��ang China, 589-906, pt. 1: Introduction / Denis Twitchett -- The Sui dynasty (581-617) / Arthur F. Wright -- The founding of the T'ang dynasty: Kao-tsu (reign 618-26) / Howard J. Wechsler -- T'ai-tsung (reign 626-49) the consolidator / Howard J. Wechsler -- Kao-tsung (reign 649-83) and the empress Wu: the inheritor and the usurper / Denis Twitchett and Howard J. Wechsler -- The reigns of the empress Wu, Chung-tsung and Jui-tsung (684-712) / Richard W.L. Guisso -- Hs��an-tsung (reign 712-56) / Denis Twitchett -- Court and province in mid- and late T'ang / C.A. Peterson -- Court politics in late T'ang times / Michael T. Dalby -- The end of the T'ang / Robert M. Somers

v. 5. The Sung Dynasty and its precursors, 907-1279, pt. 1: Introduction / Paul Jakov Smith -- The Five Dynasties / Naomi Standen -- The Southern Kingdoms between the T'ang and the Sung, 907-979 / Hugh R. Clark -- Founding and consolidation of the Sung Dynasty under T'ai-tsu (960-976), T'ai-tsung (976-997), and Chen-tsung (997-1022) / Lau Nap-yin and Huang K'uan-chung -- The reigns of Jen-tsung (1022-1063) and Ying-tsung (1063-1067) / Michael McGrath -- Shen-tsung's reign and the new policies of Wang An-shih, 1067-1085 / Paul Jakov Smith -- Che-tsung's reign (1085-1100) and the Age of Faction / Ari Daniel Levine -- The reigns of Hui-tsung (1100-1126) and Ch'in-tsung (1126-1127) and the fall of the Northern Sung / Ari Daniel Levine -- The move to the South and the reign of Kao-tsung (1127-1162) / Tao Jing-shen -- The reign of Hsiao-tsung (1162-1189) / Gong Wei Ai -- The reigns of Kuang-tsung (1189-1194) and Ning-tsung (1194-1224) / Richard L. Davis -- The reign of Li-tsung (1224-1264) / Richard L. Davis -- The reign of Tu-tsung (1264-1274) and his successors to 1279 / Richard L. Davis

v. 5, pt. 2. Sung China, 960-1279: Introduction: reflections on the Sung / John W. Chaffee -- Sung government and politics / Charles Hartman -- The Sung fiscal administration / Peter J. Golas -- A history of the Sung military / Wang Tseng-Y�� -- Chinese law and legal system: Five Dynasties and Sung / Brian McKinght -- Sung education: schools, academies, and examinations / John W. Chaffee -- Economic change in China, 960-1279 / Joseph P. McDermott -- China's emergence as a maritime power / Angela Schottenhammer -- Sung society and social change / Robert Hymes -- Reconceptualizing the order of things in Northern and Southern Sung / Peter K. Bol -- The rise of the Tao-hs��eh Confucian fellowship in Southern Sung / Hoyt Cleveland Tillman

v. 6. Alien regimes and border states, 907-1368: Introduction / Herbert Franke and Denis Twitchett -- The Liao / Denis Twitchett and Klaus-Peter Tietze -- The Hsi Hsia / Ruth Dunnel -- The Chin dynasty / Herbert Franke -- The rise of the Mongolian empire and Mongolian rule in north China / Thomas Allsen -- The reign of Khubilai khan / Morris Rossabi -- Mid-Y��an politics / Hsiao Ch'i-ch'ing -- Shun-ti and the end of Y��an rule in China / John Dardess -- The Y��an government and society / Elizabeth Endicott-West -- Chinese society under Mongol rule, 1215-1368 / Frederick W. Mote

v. 8. The Ming Dynasty, 1368-1644, pt. 2: Introduction / Denis Twitchett and Frederick W. Mote -- Ming government / Charles O. Hucker -- The Ming fiscal administration / Ray Huang -- Ming law / John D. Langlois, Jr. -- The Ming and Inner Asia / Morris Rossabi -- Sino-Korean tributary relations under the Ming / Donald N. Clark -- Ming foreign relations: Southeast Asia / Wang Gungwu -- Relations with maritime Europeans, 1514-1662 / John E. Wills, Jr. -- Ming China and the emerging world economy, c. 1470-1650 / William Atwell -- The socio-economic development of rural China during the Ming / Martin Heijdra -- Communications and commerce / Timothy Brook -- Confucian learning in late Ming thought / Willard J. Peterson -- Learning from Heaven: the introduction of Christianity and other Western ideas into late Ming China / Willard J. Peterson -- Official religion in the Ming / Romeyn Taylor -- Ming Buddhism / Y�� Ch��n-fang -- Taoism in Ming culture / Judith A. Berling

v. 9, pt. 1. The Ch'ing Empire to 1800: Introduction: New Order for the Old Order / Willard J. Peterson -- State Building before 1644 / Gertraude Roth Li -- The Shun-chih Reign / Jerry Dennerline -- The K'ang-hsi Reign / Jonathan D. Spence -- The Yung-cheng Reign / Madeleine Zelin -- The Ch'ien-lung Reign / Alexander Woodside -- The Conquest Elite of the Ch'ing Empire / Pamela Kyle Crossley -- The Social Roles of Literati in Early to Mid-Ch'ing / Benjamin A. Elman -- Women, Families, and Gender Relations / Susan Mann -- Social Stability and Social Change / William T. Rowe -- Economic Developments, 1644-1800 / Ramon H. Myers and Yeh-chien Wang

v. 9, pt. 2. The Ch'ing Dynasty to 1800: Introduction: The Ch'ing dynasty, the Ch'ing empire, and the Great Ch'ing integrated domain / Willard J. Peterson -- Governing Provinces / R. Kent Guy -- Taiwan prefecture in the eighteenth century / John Robert Shepherd -- The Extension of Ch'ing rule over Mongolia, Sinkiang, and Tibet, 1636-1800 / Nicola Di Cosmo -- Tributary relations between the Chos��n and Ch'ing courts to 1800 / Lim Jongtae -- The emergence of the state of Vietnam / John K. Whitmore and Brian Zottoli -- Cultural transfers between Tokugawa Japan and Ch'ing China to 1800 / Benjamin A. Elman -- Ch'ing relations with maritime Europeans / John E. Wills and John L. Cranmer-Byng -- Catholic missionaries, 1644-1800 / John W. Witek -- Calendrical learning and medicine, 1600-1800 / Chu Pingyi -- Taoists, 1644-1850 / Vincent Goossaert -- Arguments over learning based on intuitive knowing in early Ch'ing / Willard J. Peterson -- Advancement of learning in early Ch'ing: Three cases / Willard J. Peterson -- Dominating learning from above during the K'ang-hsi period / Willard J. Peterson -- Political pressures on the cultural sphere in the Ch'ing period / Wang Fan-Sen -- Changing roles of local elites from the 1720s to the 1830s / Seunghyun Han

v. 10. Late Ch��ing, 1800-1911, pt. 1: Introduction: the old order / John K. Fairbank -- Ch'ing Inner Asia c. 1800 / Joseph Fletcher -- Dynastic decline and the roots of rebellion / Susan Mann Jones and Philip A. Kuhn -- The Canton trade and the Opium War / Frederic Wakeman -- The creation of the treaty system / John K. Fairbank -- The Taiping Rebellion / Philip A. Kuhn -- Sino-Russian relations, 1800-62 / Joseph Fletcher -- The heyday of the Ch'ing order in Mongolia, Sinkiang and Tibet / Joseph Fletcher -- The Ch'ing Restoration / Kwang-Ching Liu -- Self-strengthening: the pursuit of Western technology / Ting-yee Kuo and Kwang-Ching Liu -- Christian missions and their impact to 1900 / Paul A. Cohen

v. 11. Late Ch��ing, 1800-1911, pt. 2: Economic trends in the late Ch'ing empire, 1870-1911 / Albert Feuerwerker -- Late Ch'ing foreign relations, 1866-1905 / Immanuel C.Y. Hsu -- Changing Chinese views of Western relations, 1840-95 / Yen-P'ing Hao and Erh-min Wang -- The military challenge: the north-west and the coast / Kwang-Ching Liu and Richard J. Smith -- Intellectual change and the reform movement, 1890-8 / Hao Chang -- Japan and the chinese revolution of 1911 / Marius B. Jansen -- Political and institutional reform 1901-11 / Chuzo Ichiko -- Government, merchants and industry to 1911 / Wellington K.K. Chan -- The republican revolutionary movement / Michael Gasster -- Currents of social change / Marianne Bastid-Bruguiere

v. 12. Republican China, 1912-1949, pt. 1: Introduction: maritime and continental in China's history / John K. Fairbank -- Economic trends, 1912-49 / Albert Feuerwerker -- The foreign presence in China / Albert Feuerwerker -- Politics in the aftermath of revolution: the era of Yuan Shih-k'ai, 1912-16 / Ernest P. Young -- A constitutional republic: the Peking government, 1916-28 / Andrew J. Nathan -- The warlord era: politics and militarism under the Peking government, 1916-28 / James E. Sheridan -- Intellectual change: from the Reform movement to the May Fourth movement, 1895-1920 / Charlotte Furth -- Themes in intellectual history: May Fourth and after / Benjamin I. Schwartz -- Literary trends I: the quest for modernity, 1895-1927 / Leo Ou-Fan Lee -- The Chinese Communist Movement to 1927 / Jerome Ch'en -- The Nationalist Revolution: from Canton to Nanking, 1923-28 / C. Martin Wilbur -- The Chinese bourgeoisie, 1911-37 / Marie-Claire Berg��re

v. 13. Republican China, 1912-1949, pt. 2: Introduction: perspectives on modern China's History / Mary B. Rankin, John K. Fairbank and Albert Feuerwerker -- China's international relations 1911-1931 / Shinkichi Et�� -- Nationalist China during the Nanking decade 1927-1937 / Lloyd E. Eastman -- The Communist movement 1927-1937 / Jerome Ch'en -- The agrarian system / Ramon H. Myers -- Peasant movements / Lucien Bianco -- The development of local government / Philip A. Kuhn -- The growth of the academic community 1912-1949 / E-Tu Zen Sun -- Literary trends: the road to revolution 1927-1949 / Leo Ou-Fan Lee -- Japanese aggression and China's international position 1931-1949 / Akira Iriye -- Nationalist China during the Sino-Japanese War 1937-1945 / Lloyd E. Eastman -- The Chinese Communist movement during the Sino-Japanese War 1937-1945 / Lyman Van Slyke -- The KMT-CCP conflict 1945-1949 / Suzanne Pepper -- Mao Tse-Tung's thought to 1949 / Stuart R. Schram

v. 14. The People's Republic, pt. 1: the emergence of revolutionary China, 1949-1965: The reunification of China / John K. Fairbank -- Emulating the Soviet model, 1949-1957 -- Establishment and consolidation of the new regime / Frederick C. Teiwes -- Economic recovery and the 1st Five-Year Plan / Nicholas R. Lardy -- Education for the new order / Suzanne Pepper -- The Party and the intellectuals / Merlie Goldman -- Foreign relations: from the Korean War to the Bandung Line / Mineo Nakajima -- The search for a Chinese road, 1958-1965 -- The Great Leap Forward and the split in the Yenan leadership / Kenneth Lieberthal -- The Chinese economy under stress, 1958-1965 / Nicholas R. Lardy -- New directions in education / Suzanne Pepper -- The Party and the intellectuals: phase two / Merle Goldman -- The Sino-Soviet split / Allen S. Whiting -- Epilogue / Roderick Macfarquhar -- Appendixes: Meetings and Leaders

v. 15. The People's Republic, pt. 2: revolutions within the Chinese Revolution, 1966-1982: Mao Tse-tung's thought from 1949 to 1976 / Stuart R. Schram -- The Cultural Revolution: China in Turmoil, 1966-1969 -- The Chinese state in crisis / Harry Harding -- China confronts the Soviet Union: warfare and diplomacy on China's Inner Asian frontiers / Thomas Robinson -- The Cultural Revolution: the Struggle for the Succession, 1969-1982 -- The succession to Mao and the end of Maoism / Roderick MacFarquhar -- The opening to America / Jonathan D. Pollack -- The Cultural Revolution and its Aftermath -- China's economic policy and performance / Dwight H. Perkins -- Education / Suzanne Pepper -- Creativity and politics / Douwe Fokkema -- Life and Letters Under Communism -- The countryside under communism / Richard Madsen -- Urban life in the People's Republic / Martin King Whyte -- Literature under communism / Cyril Birch -- The Separated Province -- Taiwan under Nationalist rule, 1949-1982 / Ralph Clough -- Epilogue: the onus of unity -- Appendixes: meetings and leaders

International scholars and sinologists discuss culture, economic growth, social change, political processes, and foreign influences in China since the earliest pre-dynastic period

"The Cambridge History of China is the largest and most comprehensive history of China in the English language. Planned in the 1960s by the late, distinguished China scholar Professor John K. Fairbank of Harvard, and Denis Twitchett, Professor Emeritus of Princeton, the series covers the grand scale of Chinese history from the 3rd century BC, to the death of Mao Tse-tung. Consisting of fifteen volumes (two of which, Volumes 5 and 9 are to be published in two books), the history embodies both existing scholarship and extensive original research into hitherto neglected subjects and periods. The contributors, all specialists from the international community of Sinologists, cover the main developments in political, social, economic and intellectual life of China in their respective periods. Collectively they present the major events in a long history that encompasses both a very old civilisation and a great modern power. Written not only for students and scholars, but with the general reader in mind, the volumes are designed to be read continuously, or as works of reference. No knowledge of Chinese is necessary; for readers with Chinese, proper names and terms are identified with their characters in the glossary, and full references to Chinese, Japanese, and other works are given in the bibliographies. Numerous maps illustrate the texts. The published volumes have constituted essential reading in Chinese history. See also, The Cambridge History of Ancient China, Michael Loewe and Edward Shaughnessy, eds., a companion to this series covering the period 1500 to 221 BC. General Editors: John K. Fairbank, Denis Twitchett." -- Provided by publisher