●1 Opium Wars and China's Decline
1 China andtheWorldbefore 1840
2 The British Opium Smuggling and Lin Zexu's Anti-Smuggling Endeavor
3 Treaty of Nanjing and Its Aftermath
4 The Chinese Intellectuals'Reaction and Solution
5 So Changes in the Post-War China
2 The Qing Government in Despair
1 The Taiping Rebellion and Its Socio-Political Experiments
2 The Aggressive Anglo-French Expedition Against China
3 The Tsarist Russia:A Gluttonous Grabber of Chinese Lands
4 The Taiping Rebellion in Its Late Phase:Zeng Guofan and the Hunan Army
5 The Fall of the Heavenly Kingdom Of Great Peace
3 The Lost Three Decades
1 Changes of the Central and Local Govemments
2 The Self-Strengthening Movement(SSM)
3 Reformism in Its Initial Stage
4 Border Crises and The Sino-French War
5 Endless Incidents Involving Christian Missionaries
6 The 1 895 Sino-Japanese War
7 The Treaty of Shimonoseki and the Cession OfTaiwan
4 The Post-1895 China:Reform.Rebellion and Revolution
1 Return of the Liao Dong Peninsula to China and Imperialistic Powers'Rat RaceintheFarEast
2 The Scramble for China
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內容簡介
本書是為公眾撰寫的一本中國近代史簡明讀本。該書堅持歷史唯物主義,反對歷史虛無主義,以1840-1949年近代中國的政治發展為,兼顧近代中國的經濟狀況、思想鬥爭、文化變遷、社會狀況,描寫了近代中國人追求獨立的過程。此書的英文版為中宣部2018年外宣任務類項目,給予稿費和翻譯費全額資助。