Contents: Chronology of Chinese history: 1839-1950 -- Biographical notes -- Chiang K'ai-shek -- Mao Tse-tung -- Empress Dowager Tzu Hsi -- Sun Yat-sen -- Michael Borodin -- Feng Yu-hsiang -- Chang Tso-Lin -- Chang Hsueh-liang -- Chou En-lai -- Lin Piao.

The Chinese century : a photographic history of the last hundred years / Jonathan D. Spence & Annping Chin ; photographs researched by the authors, Colin Jacobson and Annabel Merullo.
End of empire, 1894-1906 -- A fragile constitution, 1907-1917 -- Away with the old, 1917-1924 -- Alliance and purge, 1925-1928 -- Rule of the Guomindang, 1928-1936 -- War with Japan, 1937-1941 -- World War and Civil War, 1942-1949 -- A Communist state, 1949-1957 -- Great leap, great famine, 1958-1965 -- Cultural revolution, 1966-1976 -- The post-Mao world, 1976-1986 -- Pressures of the new, 1987-1996.
The history of China in photographs, including "rare photos of the Boxer Rebellion and the Rape of Nanking, the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution."--Jacket.
Includes index.

Provides an introduction to the history of China since 1800, with chapter summaries and a chronology.
1. China at the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century -- 2. The Opium Wars -- 3. Rebellion and Restoration -- 4. Restoration and Self-strengthening -- 5. Imperialism in the Late Qing Period -- 6. Nationalism and Reform in Late Imperial China -- 7. The 1911 Revolution -- 8. The Early Republic, 1912-28 -- 9. The Rise of the Guomindang and the Nanjing Decade -- 10. The Sino-Japanese War and the Civil War -- 11. The People's Republic of China: the Revolutionary Period to the Great Leap Forward -- 12. From the Cultural Revolution to the Death of Mao -- 13. From the Death of Mao to the Death of Deng.