Naomi Standen is professor of medieval history at the University of Birmingham.

Preface
Rana Mitter
Introduction: The Creation of History in China
Naomi Standen
Part I: Images of an Ancient and United Nation
Chapter 1: The Chinese
Peter C. Perdue
Chapter 2: The Great Wall
Peter Lorge
Chapter 3: Foreign Conquerors of China
Naomi Standen
Chapter 4: Confucius: The Key to Understanding China
Tim Barrett
Part II: Cultural Traditions
Chapter 5: The "Decline" of Buddhism in China
Tansen Sen
Chapter 6: Islam in China
Michael Brose
Chapter 7: Chinese Medicine
Bridie Andrews
Chapter 8: Traditional Chinese and the Environment
Ling Zhang
Chapter 9: Chinese Martial Arts
Stanley Henning
Chapter 10: Women in Chinese History
Clara Wing-chung Ho
Part III: Imperial China
Chapter 11: China's Age of Seafaring
Ruth Mostern
Chapter 12: Civil Service Examinations
Elif Akçetin
Chapter 13: Xinjiang at the Center
Judd Kinzley
Chapter 14: Tibet
Elliot Sperling
Chapter 15: Modern China's Borders
Andres Rodriguez
Chapter 16: The Opium War and China's "Century of Humiliation"
Julia Lovell
Part IV: Making Modern China
Chapter 17: Sun Yat-sen
Wasana Wongsurawat
Chapter 18: Republican China under the Nationalists, ca. 1925-1945
Felix Boecking
Chapter 19: The Rise of the Chinese Communist Party
Christian Hess
Chapter 20: Simplified Characters
Imre Galambos
Chapter 21: The One-Child Policy
Barbara Mittler
Chapter 22: The Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976
Marjorie Dryburgh
Chapter 23: China's Political System
Hai Ren
Chapter 24: Tiananmen 1989
Fabio Lanza