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.

"本書討論了作者根深蒂固的杭州情結和在表現這個古老城市時採用的獨特視角, 並分析了其有關1917-1919年間杭州老照片的幾個主要方面, 作者所表現杭州之江大學和費佩德一家的照片如今已成為珍貴的歷史記載"--OCLC note.