China in World History

S.A.M. ADSHEAD is Professor Emeritus in History at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand. He was educated at Stowe School and Christ Church, Oxford, and studied Chinese History at Harvard University. He is the author of The Modernization of the Chinese Salt Administration, Province and Politics in Late Imperial China, Salt and Civilization, Central Asia in World History and The Philosophy of History in Nineteenth-Century England and Beyond.

• Preface to Third Edition Introduction World Apart: China in Antiquity 200 BC to 400 AD World Centre: China in Late Antiquity 400 to 1000 World Axis: China in the Middle Ages 1000 to 1350 World Horizon: China in the Renaissance 1350 to 1650 World Within a World: China in the Enlightenment 1650 to 1833 Between Two Worlds: China in the Modern Age 1833 to 1976 Notes Postscript Bibliography Index