1 Opium Wars and China's Decline

• China and the World before 1840

• The British Opium Smuggling and Lin Zexu's Anti-Smuggling Endeavor

• Treaty of Nanjing and Its Aftermath

• The Chinese Intellectuals' Reaction and Solution

• Social Changes in the Post-War China

2 The Qing Government in Despair

• The Taiping Rebellion and Its Socio-Political Experiments

• The Aggressive Anglo-French Expedition Against China

• The Tsarist Russia: A Gluttonous Grabber of Chinese Lands

• The Taiping Rebellion in Its Late Phase: Zeng Guofan and the Hunan Army

• The Fall of the Heavenly Kingdom of Great Peace

3 The Lost Three Decades

• Changes of the Central and Local Governments

• The Self-Strengthening Movement（SSM）

• Reformism in Its Initial Stage

• Border Crises and The Sino-French War

• Endless Incidents Involving Christian Missionaries

• The 1895 Sino-Japanese War

• The Treaty of Shimonoseki and the Cession of Taiwan

4 The Post-1895 China: Reform,Rebellion and Revolution

• Return of the Liao Dong Peninsula to China and Imperialistic Powers' Rat Race in the Far East

• The Scramble for China

• China's Sprouting National Capitalism

• Sun Yat-sen and Early Revolutionaries

• The Abortive 1898 Hundred Days' Reform

• The Boxer Uprising: A Chinese Peasants' Patriotic Anti-Imperialistic Endeavor

• The Aggressive Allied Forces of Eight Powers and Qing's Response

• The Boxer Protocol and a Fully Semi-Colonialized and Semi-Feudalized China

5 On the Eve of Great Change

• Qing's New Policies and Social Changes Ensued

• The British Empire's Invasion of Tibet and the Russo-Japanese Conflict in the Northeast China

• Tongmenghui and the Debates Involving Revolutionaries and Conservatives

• Boycotting American Goods and Restoring China's Rights

• Building China's Constitutional Monarchy

• The Revolutionaries in Action

6 The 1911 Revolution: A Blend of Success and Failure

• The Crisis-Ridden Qing

• Huanghuagang Uprising and Railway Protection Movement

• The Wuchang Uprising

• Sun Yat-sen,the President of the Nanjing Provisional Government

• The Collapse of Qing and the Rise of Yuan Shikai

7 China at Its Lowest Ebb: The Rule of Beiyang Warlords

• Yuan Shikai and Sun Yat-sen

• The Rapid Collapse of Hongxian Reign

• China under Warlords' Rule

• The Growth of China's National Capitalism and Working Class

• The New Culture and May Fourth Movements

• The Dissemination of Marxism and Socialism

8 The Beginning of China's Tortuous Path to Progress

• The Birth of the Communist Party of China

• Kuomintang's First National Congress,the First United Front,and the Northern Expedition

• The Clash Between the CPC and Kuomintang and the Failure of the First Revolutionary Civil War

• The Convergence of Wuhan and Nanjing Nationalist Governments and the Nominal Uni fication of China

• Establishing Armed Independent Regime of Workers and Peasants in Jiangxi

• Kuomintang's Encirclement and Annihilation and the CPC's Counterattacks

• The Social History Controversy in the 1930s

9 The Deepening National Crisis and the Adjustment of Class Relations

• The September 18 Incident and the Nonresistance Strategy

• Japan's Intensi fied Aggression Against China and Chiang Kai-shek's Increased Nonresistance

• China's Greater Effort to Fight against Japan

• The Setback for the Chinese Communist Movement

• Sian Incident and China's New Opportunity to Rehabilitate

10 The Outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japan

• The Lugouqiao Incident

• The August 13 Incident in Shanghai and the Anti-Japanese National United Front

• The National Defense System and the CPC and Kuomintang's Strategies

• ERA（Eighth Route Army）and The Battle of Shanxi

• The Battle of Shanghai and the Nanjing Massacre

• China's Great Victory in Taierzhuang and the Fall of Wuhan and Guangzhou

11 The Two Battlefields in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression

• The Collaboration of Kuomintang's Frontal Battle field and the CPC's Battle field Behind the Enemy Lines

• The Incident in the Southern Anhui

• The Pearl Harbor Attack and the International Anti-Fascist United Front

• Kuomintang's Failure in the Frontal Battle field and the CPC's Offensive in the Rear Battle field

• Corruption and Dictatorship in Areas under Kuomintang's Rule and the Growth of the CPC's Revolutionary Anti-Japanese Bases

• The Coalition Government and China's Counteroffensive

• The CPC-Kuomintang Struggle and Two Prospects of China

• The Unconditional Surrender of Japan and China's Final Victory in War of Resistance

12 The Victory of the People's War of Liberation and the Founding of the People's Republic of China

• Chongqing Negotiations and Political Consultative Conference

• The Changing Sino-Soviet and Sino-US Relations

• Outbreak of the Full-Scale Civil War

• The Crisis-Ridden Areas under Kuomintang's Rule and the Stable and Prosperous Liberated Areas

• Three Great Decisive Battles

• The Broken Peace Talk in Beijing and PLA's Capture of Nanjing

• The Founding of the People's Republic of China

13 The Historical Significance of the People's Republic of China

• The Birth of the People's Republic of China Brings Epochal Change to China and the World

• The PRC Lays the Foundation of a New Era of Socialist Developments with Chinese Characteristics and the Rejuvenation of the Chinese Nation

• The Birth of the PRC Witnesses the Tortuous Course Towards Success

• Three Fundamental Themes and Four Lessons in Learning Modern Chinese History