China, history

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This article covers the History of China from 2000 BC to the present.

Bibliography

surveys

  • Elvin, Mark. Retreat of the Elephants: An Environmental History of China. Yale U. Press, 2004. 564 pp.
  • Goldman, Merle and Lee, Leo Ou-fan, ed. An Intellectual History of Modern China. Cambridge U. Press, 2002. 607 pp.
  • Rawski, Thomas G. and Lillian M. Li, eds. Chinese History in Economic Perspective, University of California Press, 1992 online free
  • Schoppa, R. Keith. The Columbia Guide to Modern Chinese History. Columbia U. Press, 2000. 356 pp.
  • Seiwert, Hubert. Popular Religious Movements and Heterodox Sects in Chinese History. Brill, 2003. 548 pp.
  • Stuart-Fox, Martin. A Short History of China and Southeast Asia: Tribute, Trade and Influence. Sydney, Australia: Allen & Unwin, 2003. 278 pp.
  • Ven, Hans van de, ed. Warfare in Chinese History. E. J. Brill, 2000. 456 pp.
  • Wilkinson, Endymion. Chinese History, A Manual, Revised and Enlarged. Harvard U. Asia Center, 2000. 1181 pp.



Ming

Qing

  • Peterson, Willard J., ed. The Cambridge History of China. Vol. 9, Part 1: The Ch'ing Dynasty to 1800. Cambridge U. Press, 2002. 753 pp.
  • Struve, Lynn A., ed. The Qing Formation in World-Historical Time. Harvard U. Press, 2004. 412 pp.

20th century

recent

  • Dittmer, Lowell. Title: China's Continuous Revolution: The Post-Liberation Epoch, 1949-1981 University of California Press, 1989 online free
  • Esherick, Joseph W.; Pickowicz, Paul G.; and Walder, Andrew G., eds. The Chinese Cultural Revolution as History. Stanford U. Press, 2006. 382 pp.
  • Ji, Zhaojin. A History of Modern Shanghai Banking: The Rise and Decline of China's Finance Capitalism. M. E. Sharpe, 2003. 325 pp.
  • Kirby, William C.; Ross, Robert S.; and Gong, Li, eds. Normalization of U.S.-China Relations: An International History. Harvard U. Asia Cen., 2005. 376 pp.
  • Kirby, William C., ed. Realms of Freedom in Modern China. Stanford U. Press, 2004. 416 pp.



Intellectual and cultural history

  • Mair, Victor H., ed. The Columbia History of Chinese Literature. Columbia U. Press, 2001. 800 pp.
  • Needham, Joseph; Robinson, Kenneth Girdwood; and Huang, Ray. Science and Civilisation in China: V. 7, Part 2: General Conclusions and Reflections. Cambridge U. Press, 2004. 283 pp. the last volume of a monumental series
  • Watson, William. The Arts of China, 900-1620. Yale U. Press, 2000. 304 pp.


Historiography

  • Braester, Yomi. Witness against History: Literature, Film, and Public Discourse in Twentieth-Century China. Stanford U. Press, 2003. 264 pp.
  • Ng, On-Cho and Wang, Q. Edward. Mirroring the Past: The Writing and Use of History in Imperial China. U. of Hawai`i Press, 2005. 306 pp.
  • Wang, Ben. Illuminations from the Past: Trauma, Memory, and History in Modern China. Stanford U. Press, 2004. 311 pp.
  • Wang, David Der-wei. The Monster That Is History: History, Violence, and Fictional Writing in Twentieth-Century China. U. of California Press, 2004. 402 pp.
  • Wang, Q. Edward. Inventing China Through History: The May Fourth Approach to Historiography. State U. of New York Press, 2001. 304 pp.