Generally speaking, this book is provided to the overseas students who study in Jinan University. It tries to help the overseas students to understand China through the historic course. As a book of history, the basic historic events should be the most important material of the book.

Introduction

Part Ⅰ The Opium Wars and the Characteristics Changing of China Society

1.The Situation of China before the First Opium War

2.The British Opium Smuggling and the Anti-opium Campaign in china

3.The First Opium War

4.The Consequences of the First Opium War to China Society

5.The Second Opium War

6.The Appearance of the New Ideological

Part Ⅱ Self-Strengthening in the Age of Accelerated Foreign Imperialism

1.The Domestic Situation of China during the Opium Wars

2.The Self-Strengthening Movement

3.Foreign Affairs during the Self-Strengthening Movement

4.The Sino-French War

5.The First Sino-Japanese War

Part Ⅲ Reform under the Menace of Partition

1.The Menace of Partition

2.The Reform Movement and Hundred Days Reform

3.The Boxer Movement

4.Late-Qing Reforms and the Constitutional Movement

Part Ⅳ Revolution and Republic

1.The Situation of China at the Turn of the 20th Century

2.The Rise of the Bourgeoisie Revolutionary Groups

3.The Further Unstable of the Qing Dynasty and the Xinhai Revolution

4.The Founding of the Republic of China

5.The Protection of the Republic (1912- 1920)

Part Ⅴ Ideological Awakening and the National Revolution

1.The Intellectual Revolution

2.The May Fourth Movement, 1919

3.The Expansion of the New Culture Movement and the Founding of the Chinese Communist Party

4.The Nationalist Party Reorganization and the First United Front

5.The Rise of the Nationalist Movement

Part Ⅵ The Struggling of the Nanjing Government from 1927 to 1937

1.The Politic Power Struggle

2.The Struggle for National Reconstruction

3.The Chinese Communist Party's Struggle

Part Ⅶ The War of Resistance against Japan ( 1937 - 1945 )

1.The Japanese Invasion Activities to China before 1937

2.Japanese Full-Scale Attack to China

3.Chinese Resistance Strategy before the Entrance of Western Allies

4.ForeignSupportstoChina

5.RelationshipbetweentheNationalistsandCommunistsduringtheWar

PartVIIITheCivilWarinChina(1945-1949)andtheEstablishmentofthePeople'sRepublicofChina

1.TheSituationofChinaaftertheEndoftheWarofResistanceagainstJapanese

2.ChongqingNegotiation

3.TheFull-scaleCivilWar

4.TheEstablishmentofthePeople'sRepublicofChina

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Acknowledgments