Foreword by Edwin O. Reischauer -- Preface, 1983, by John K. Fairbank -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 The Chinese Scene -- The Contrast of North and South -- China's Origins -- The Harmony of Man and Nature -- Part I The Old Order -- 2 The Nature of Chinese Society -- Social Structure -- Early China as an "Oriental" Society -- The Gentry Class -- The Chinese Written Language - The Scholar -- Nondevelopment of Capitalism - The Merchant -- 3 The Confucian Pattern -- Confucian Principles -- The Classical Orthodoxy -- Chinese Militarism -- Individualism, Chinese Style -- The Nondevelopment of Science -- 4 Alien Rule and Dynastic Cycles -- Nomad Conquest -- The First Sino-Foreign Empires -- The Manchu Achievement -- The Dynastic Cycle -- 5 The Political Tradition -- Bureaucracy -- Law -- Religion -- Chinese Humanism -- Folk Sects and Peasant Rebellion -- Part II The Revolutionary Process -- 6 The Western Invasion -- European versus Chinese Expansion -- China's Impact on Europe -- The Tribute System -- The Treaty System -- The Demographic Disaster -- 7 Rebellion and Restoration -- The White Lotus as a Prototype -- The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom -- The Nien and Other Rebels -- The Restoration of Confucian Government -- 8 Reform and Revolution -- The Self-Strengthening Movement -- Imperialism and Reform in 1898 -- Revolutionaries versus Reformers -- Dynastic Reform and Republican Revolution -- 9 The Rise of the Kuomintang -- The Search for a New Order -- The May Fourth Movement -- The Nationalist Revolution -- 10 The Nanking Government -- Political Development -- The Rise of Chiang Kai-shek -- Progress toward Industrialization -- Local Government -- 11 The Rise of the Communist Party -- Vicissitudes of the First Decade -- The Rise of Mao Tse-tung -- Wartime Ideological Development -- Part III Tlle United States and the People's Republic.

12 Our Inherited China Policy -- American Expansion and Britain's Empire -- The American Ambivalence about China -- The Evolution of the Open Door -- America's Contribution and the Fate of Liberalism -- 13 United States Policy and the Nationalist Defeat -- American Aid and Mediation -- The Nationalist Debacle -- The "Loss of China" in America -- Our Ally Taiwan -- 14 The People's Republic: Establishing the New Order -- Political Control -- Economic Reconstruction -- Social Reorganization -- The Korean War and Soviet Aid -- 15 The Struggle for Socialist Transformation -- Collectivization of Agriculture -- The First Five-Year Plan -- The Struggles with Intellectuals and with Cadres -- China in the World Scene -- The Great Leap Forward -- The Communes -- 16 The Second Revolution -- Mao and His Opponents -- The Sino-Soviet Split -- The Growth of Bureaucratic Evils -- Mao Revives the Revolution: The Socialist Education Movement -- The Cultural Revolution -- 17 Perspectives: China and Ourselves -- Our China Policy and the Wars in Korea and Vietnam -- New Perspectives of the 1970s -- China Today in the Light of Her Past -- Problems of the New Order -- Epilogue, 1983 -- Suggested Reading -- Index to Suggested Reading -- General Index -- Credits for Illustrations.