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Index
COVER
COPYRIGHT
DEDICATION
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
PART ONE: ANCIENT ORIGINS C. 1650 BC ONWARDS
1. The Cosmology of the Chinese Capital
PART TWO: THE EARLY EMPIRE 221 BC–AD 589
2. The First Imperial Capitals: Qin Xianyang and Former Han Chang’an
3. A Restored Dynasty: Later Han Luoyang
4. A Divided China: Nanjing, Pingcheng, and Luoyang
PART THREE: THE MIDDLE EMPIRE 589–1368
5. Reunification: Sui and Tang Chang’an
6. Dynastic Decline: Late Tang Chang’an
7. Almost Paradise: Northern Song Kaifeng
8. Holding On: Southern Song Hangzhou
9. The Mongol Conquest: Yuan Beijing
PART FOUR: THE LATE EMPIRE 1368–1912
10. The Chinese Recovery: Ming Nanjing and Beijing
11. The Last Imperial Capital: Qing Beijing
CHRONOLOGIES: The Imperial Dynasties
The Emperors and Their Reigns
NOTES AND REFERENCES
INDEX
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