本书是中国通史的古代史部分。着重叙述自远古时代到1911年中华民国成立清皇朝灭亡这段历史，内容包括政治、经济、文化、思想等方面。本书系统全面，精炼概括，要言不烦，简而有法，许多地方不囿成说，能根据新的材料和新的成果，大胆探索，提出自己的解释，从文字到内容都形成了自己的风格和特点，是一本较好的古代史教材。

Chapter I Introduction

1. A Land of 9,600,000 Square Kilometres

2. Fifty:six Ethnic Groups and a Population of More Than 1,000,000,1300

3. 1,700,000 Years and 3,600 Years

Chapter H Traces of Remote Antiquity

1. From Yuanmou Man to Peking Man; the Making of Tools and the Use of Fire

2. Dingcun (Tingtsun) Man and Upper Cave Man; the Improvement of Tools and the Emergence of Ornaments

3. The Yangshao Culture and Its Matriarchal Communes

4. The Patriarchal Clan Society of the Longshan Culture

Chapter III Myth and Legend

1. The Legends of Ancient Tribes

2. Tribal Chiefs, Gods and Their Sons

3. The Hereditary Monarchy of the Xia Dynasty

Chapter IV The Slave State of the Shang and Zhou Dynasties

1. The Earliest Written History

2. The Slave-owning Shang Dynasty

3. The Social Economy of the Shang Dynasty

4. The Rise of the Zhou and the Establishment of the Slaveowning Zhou Dynasty

5. Economic Development Under Zhou Slavery

6. The Zhou Dynasty from Prosperity to Decline

Chapter V The Early Eastern Zhou, Spring and Autumn, and Warring States Periods: Transition from Slavery to Feudalism

1. The Early Eastern Zhou and the Spring and Autumn Period:Contention for Supremacy Among the Major States

2. The Seven Powers of the Warring States Period

3. The Transition from Slavery to Feudalism

4. Confucius, Mo Zi, Other Thinkers and the Elegies of Chu

Chapter VI The Qin and Han Dynasties: the Growth of Feudal Society

1. The Qin, China's First Feudal Dynasty

2. Peasant Uprisings in the Late Qin Dynasty

3. Establishment and Consolidation of the Western Han Dynasty

4. Golden Age of the Western Han Dynasty

5. Decline of the Western Han Dynasty; Uprisings of the Green Woodsmen and Red Eyebrows

6. The Establishment of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Prolonged Turbulence, and the Yellow Turban Uprising

7. The Development of Social Productive Forces

8. The Growth of Feudal Relations

Chapter VII The Three Kingdoms, the Jin, the Southern and Northern Dynasties, the Sui and the Tang: the Earlier Period of Ascendancy of Chinese Feudalism

1. The Three Kingdoms

2. The Western Jin, the Eastern Jin and the Sixteen States

3. The Southern and Northern Dynasties

4. The Establishment of the Sui Dynasty and the Peasant Uprisings in Its Closing Years

5. The Golden Age of the Tang

6. Turmoil in the Mid-Tang Period

7. The Decline of the Tang Empire and the Late-Tang Peasant Uprisings

8. The Development of Social Productive Forces

9. The Development of Feudal Relations and the Feudalization of Regions Inhabited by Several Ethnic Group

Chapter VIII The Five Dynasties, the Song and the Yuan: the Later Period of Ascendancy of Chinese Feudalism

1. The Five Dynasties and Ten States

2. Rise and Fall of the Northern Song; Uprisings by Wang Xiaobo and Fang La

3. The Liao, the Xia and the Jin: Their Relations with the Northern Song

4. Rival Regimes of the Song and the Jin; Uprisings by Zhong Xiang, Yang Yao and the Red Jackets

5. The Rise of the Mongols and the Fall of the Xia, the Jin and the Southern Song

6. Founding of the Yuan Dynasty and Peasant Uprisings During the Late Yuan

7. Further Growth of Social Productivity; Southward Shift of Economic Development

8. Further Development of Feudal Relations; Feudalization of the Border Regions

9. China's Communications with the Outside World

Chapter IX The Ming-Qing Period: the Twilight of Feudalism

1. Establishment of the Ming Dynasty

2. Decline of the Ming Dyansty; Refugee and Miner Uprisings

3. Decay of the Ming Dynasty; Peasant Uprisings Continued

4. Rise of the Manchus; Peasant Uprisings Towards the End of the Ming; Fall of the Ming Dynasty

5. Peasant Regime of the Great Shun; Princes of the Southern Ming; Unification Activities During the Early Qing Dynasty

6. Qing Rule Strengthened

7. Decline of the Qing; Uprisings of Different Ethnic Groups

8. The Decline of Feudalism and the Emergence of Sprouts of Capitalism

9. Arrival of Western Colonialism

Chapter X Semi-Colonial and Semi-Feudal Society; the Old Democratic Revolution

1. The Opium War

2. The Taiping Peasant War

3. The Second Opium War; Russia's Occupation of Chinese Territory

4. The Later Period of the Taiping Peasant War

5. Culture and Learning After the Opium War

6. Foreign Economic Aggression and the Official Westernization Drive

7. The Proletariat and the National Bourgeoisie

in the Early Days; the Spread of Modern Western Science

8. Foreign Aggression and China's Border Crises

9. The Sino-Japanese War and Imperialist Partition of China

10. The Modernization Movement of the Bourgeois Reformists

11. The Anti-Imperialist Patriotic Movement of the Yi He Tuan

12. The Rise of the Bourgeois Revolutionary Movement

13. The Founding of the Tong Meng Hui

14. The Wuchang Uprising; The Founding of the Republic of China and the Fall of the Qing Dynasty

15. The Period of Beiyang Warlord Rule

16. Ideology and Culture During the Period of Bourgeois Revolution

17. The Dawn of the Chinese Revolution

Chapter XI The Continuation of the Semi-Colonial

and SemiFeudal Society and the New-Democratic Revolution

1. The May 4th Movement and the Beginning of the Newdemocratic Revolution

2. The Development of the National Capitalist Economy and the Formation

of the Programme of the Chinese Communist Party in the Democratic Revolution

3. The Evolution of the Beiyang Warlord Forces and the Rise of the National Revolutionary Movement

4. Northern Expeditionary War and Failure of the National Revolution

5. Establishment of Kuomintang Rule and the Beginning of the Soviet Revolution

6. Growth and Decline of the Kuomintang Factions and Settingup of the Soviet Areas

7. The September 18th Incident and the Upsurge of the Nationwide Anti-Japanese Democratic Movement.

The Kuomintang Policy of "Internal Pacification Before Resistance to Foreign Invasion

8. Fascist Rule of the Kuomintang Government.

The Deepening and Expansion of the Soviet Revolution and the Long March of the Red Army

9. The Birth of New-democratic Economy. Economic Changes in the Kuomintang Area

10. Transition from Civil War to the War of Resistance Against Japan

11. The July 7th Incident and the Start of the Nationwide War of Resistance Against Japan.

Three Kinds of Political Power Exist Simultaneously

12. Changes in the Situation of the Anti-Japanese War from the Stage of Stalemate

13. The Outbreak of the Pacific War. The Kuomintang Area and the Liberated Area in the Mid-Period of the Anti-Japanese War

14. The Political Struggle in the Later Stage of the Anti-Jalranese War and the Final Victory of the War

15. Proposals of Political Parties Concerning National Reconstruction.

The Political Consultative Conference

16. The Outbreak of All-out Civil War. Radical Turn in Military and Political Situation in China

17. The Downfall of the Nanjing Regime and the Founding of the People's Republic of China

18. Philosophy, Historiography, Natural Science and Literature

Index