China

Michael Dillon is Professor of History and Affiliate of the Lau China Centre, King's College London, UK. He was Visiting Professor at Tsinghua University in 2009 and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and Royal Asiatic Society. He was founding Director of the Centre for Contemporary Chinese Studies at the University of Durham, where he taught modern Chinese history.

Preface
Introduction
1. Rise and Fall of the Chinese Empire
2. China and the West: The Road to the Opium War
3. Taiping, Nain and Muslim Uprisings (1850-1884)
4. Restoration and Colonisation (1861-1884)
5. Boxer Rising and Imperial Decline (1899-1911)
6. The Struggle for the Republic of China (1911-1916)
7. May Fourth Movement, Communists and Nationalists (1917-1924)
8. Northern Expedition and United Front (1923-1927)
9. Nanjing Expedition and Long March (11927-1937)
10. Japanese Invasion, Second United Front and Civil war (1937-1949)
Interlude
11. Liberation and People's Republic of China (1949-1954)
12. Agriculture, Industry, Marriage Reform and the Intelligentsia (1950-1965)
13. Great Leap Forward (1958-1965)
14. Cultural Revolution (1966-1980)
15. Modernising and Opening China
16. Tibet, Xinjiang and Inner Mongolia
17. Hong Kong and Taiwan
18. China after Deng Xiaoping
19. Xi Jinping and the New Authoritarianism
Biographical notes
Further reading
Index