chapter Ⅰ introduction
1.a land of 9600000square kilometres
2.fifty-six ethnic groups and a population of more than 1000000000
3.1700000years and 3600years
chapter Ⅱ traces of remote antiquity
1.from yuanmou man to peking man:the making of tools and the use of fire
2.dingcun(tingtsun)man and upper cave man:the improvement of tools and the emergence of ornaments
3.the yangshao culure and its matriarchal communes
4.the patriarchal clan society of the longshan culute
chapter Ⅲ myth and legend
1.the legends of ancient tribes
2.tribel chiefs,gods and their son
3.the hereditary monarchy of the xia dynasty
chapter Ⅳ the slave state of the shang and zhou dynasties
1.the earliest written history
2.the slave-owning shang dynasty
3.the social econoy of the shang dynasty
4.the rise of the zhou and the establishment of the slaveowing zhou dynasty
5.ecnomic development under zhou slavery
6.the zhou dynasty from prosperity to decline
chapter Ⅴ the early eastern zhou,spring and autumm,and warring states periods:transition from slavery to feudaism
1.the early easten zhou and the spring and autumn period:contention for supremacy aomy the majory states
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chapter Ⅵ the oin and han dynasties:the growth of feudel society
chapter Ⅶ the three kingdoms,the jin,the southern and northern dynasties,the sui and tang:the earlier period of ascendancy of chinese feuadlism
chapterⅧ the five dynasties,the song and the yuan:the later period of ascendancy of chinese feudalism
chapterⅨ the ming-qing period:the twilight of feudalism
chapterⅩ semi-colonial and semi-feudal scoiett:the old democratic revolution
chapterⅪ the continuation of the semi-colonial and semi feudal society and the new-democratic revolution