Table of Contents

List of Maps and Illustrations
Preface to the Fourth Edition
Chronological Table of Dynasties
Reign Periods of the Ming and Qing Dynasties
1. Before the Dawn of History
2. The Shang Dynasty
3. The Zhou Dynasty
4. The Period of the Warring States
5. The Qin and Han Dynasties
6. The Three Kingdoms and the Six Dynasties
7. The Sui and Tang Dynasties
8. The Five Dynasties and the Song Dynasty
9. The Yuan Dynasty
10. The Ming Dynasty
11. The Qing Dynasty
12. The Twentieth Century
Notes
Books for Reference and Further Reading
Index

About the Author

Michael Sullivan is Fellow Emeritus at St. Catherine's College, Oxford University. His many books include Art and Artists of Twentieth-Century China (California, 1996) and The Meeting of Eastern and Western Art: Revised and Expanded Edition (California, 1997). Michael Sullivan has received honors and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the Rockefeller Foundation. He lives in Oxford, England.