Part I: Conquest and Consolidation 1. The Late Ming 2. The Manchu Conquest 3. Kangxi?s Consolidation 4. Yongzheng?s Authority 5. Chinese Society and the Reign of Qianlong 6. China and the Eighteenth-Century World Part II: Fragmentation and Reform 7. The First Clash with the West 8.

The Crisis Within 9. Restoration through Reform 10. New Tensions in the Late Qing 11. The End of the Dynasty Part III: Envisioning State and Society 12. The New Republic 13. ?A Road is Made? 14. The Fractured Alliance 15. The Guomindang in Power 16.

Communist Survival Part IV: War and Revolution 17. World War II 18. The Fall of the Guomindang State 19. The Birth of the People?s Republic 20. Planning the New Society 21. Deepening the Revolution 22. Cultural Revolution Part V: Re-entering the World 23. Reopening the Doors 24.

Redefining Revolution 25. Levels of Power 26. Testing the Limits 27. Century?s End 28. Breakthrough (new chapter to this edition).