History of China. From the Earliest Times to the Manchu Conquest

"The early history of China has been seriously neglected by English and American writers. Chinese history has almost invariably been treated from the point of view of foreign relations, with the result that a few pages have sufficed for the four millenniums prior to the Manchu occupation, while hundreds of pages have been used to discuss (from a foreign point of view) the events of the past few decades..." - Herbert H. Gowen

"To know China and something of its four thousand years of continuous history is to have some touch with the world movements as old as Babylon and as young as the day's newspaper, to have a background on which the history of our own race and of our own land becomes all the more significant and prophetic..." - H.H.G.

Contents: Introductory. Preliminaries. In the Beginning. The Five Rulers. The Hia Dynasty, B.C. 2205-1766. The Shang Dynasty, B.C. 1766-1122. The Chou Dynasty, B.C. 1122-249 - from Wu-wang to the Five Leaders. The Chou Dynasty B.C. 685-249 - from the Five Leaders to the Tsin Epoch. The Tsin Dynasty, B.C. 249-210. The Han Dynasty, B.C. 210 - A.D. 220. Four Centuries of Anarchy, A.D. 220-618. The T'ang Dynasty, A.D. 618-905. The Five Little Dynasties, A.D. 907-960. The Sung Dynasty, A.D. 960-1279. The Yuan or Mongol Dynasty, A.D. 1260-1368. The Ming Dynasty, A.D. 1368-1644.