TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hansen, Valerie
TI  - The Open Empire: A History of China to 1800
SN  - 9780393973747
U1  - 951 
PY  - 2015///
CY  - New York
PB  - W.W. Nortan & Company
KW  - China -- History -- To 221 B.C
KW  -  China -- History -- 960-1644
KW  - China -- History -- 221 B.C.-960 A.D
N1  - The use of Pinyin --
Part I. Inventing China (ca. 1500 B.C.E.-200 C.E.) --
The beginnings of the written record --
The age of the warrior and the thinker : Double Ears and Confucius (770 B.C.E.-221 B.C.E.) --
The creation of empire (221 B.C.E.-200 C.E.) --
Part II. Facing west (C.E. 200-1000) --
China's religious landscape (200-600) --
China's golden age (589-755) --
The An Lushan Rebellion and its aftermath (755-960) --
Part III. Facing north (1000-1800) --
Coming to terms with money : the Song Dynasty (960-1276) --
The northern dynasties : non-Chinese rule in North China (907-1215) --
The Mongols (ca. 1200-1368) --
Continuing the war against the Mongols : the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) --
The Qing empire (1636-1800) --
Epilogue
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