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Title: A history of China., [3d ed. rev. and enl.]

Author: Wolfram Eberhard

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A
HISTORY OF CHINA

by
WOLFRAM EBERHARD
_of the University of California_

_Illustrated_

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS
Berkeley and Los Angeles 1969

First published in U. S. A. by
_University of California Press_
_Berkeley and Los Angeles_
_California_

Second printing 1955
Third printing 1956
Second edition (revised by the author
and reset) 1960
Reprinted 1966
Third edition (revised
and enlarged) 1969

_To My Wife_

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION 1

_THE EARLIEST TIMES_

Chapter I: PREHISTORY

1 Sources for the earliest history 7
2 The Peking Man 8
3 The Palaeolithic Age 8
4 The Neolithic Age 9
5 The eight principal prehistoric cultures 10
6 The Yang-shao culture 12
7 The Lung-shan culture 15
8 The first petty States in Shansi 16

Chapter II: THE SHANG DYNASTY
(_c._ 1600-1028 B.C.)

1 Period, origin, material culture 19
2 Writing and Religion 22
3 Transition to feudalism 24

_ANTIQUITY_

Chapter III: THE CHOU DYNASTY (_c._ 1028-257 B.C.)

1 Cultural origin of the Chou and end of the Shang dynasty 29
2 Feudalism in the new empire 30
3 Fusion of Chou and Shang