- List of Maps*
- List of Illustrations**
- Note to the Reader
- Preface
- Introduction: Middle Kingdom to Modern State
- Companion to Modern China
- Chronology
- Selected Recommended Reading
- Index
- * Maps
- Physical China
- Political China
- Major crop areas
- Major ethnic minorities
- Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
- China–India disputed borders
- The Long March
- Macau Special Administrative Region
- Manchuguo and China
- First stage of the Northern Expedition—1926
- Chinese overseas
- China’s military regions
- Urban population
- South China Sea
- Republic of China on Taiwan
- Three Gorges Dam
- Tibet
- Treaty ports and foreign territories
- Tumen River Economic Zone
- Weihaiwei and neighbouring foreign territories
- Yangtze River
- ** List of Illustrations (Photographic acknowledgements are given in parentheses)
- 1. The Empress Dowager Ci Xi (Corbis/Bettmann)
- 2. Yuan Shi-kai (Popperfoto)
- 3. Sun Yat-sen (Corbis/Bettmann)
- 4. Chiang Kai-shek (Corbis)
- 5. Mao Zedong (Corbis/Bettmann)
- 6. Deng Xiaoping (Corbis/Bettmann)
- 7. Jiang Zemin (Corbis/AFP)
- 8. Chen Shui-bian (Camera Press)
- 9. Tung Chee-hwa (Corbis/AFP)
- 10. Edmund Ho Hau-wah (Corbis/AFP)
- 11. The Politburo Standing Committee (Camera Press)
- 12. Execution of Boxer rebel (Corbis/Hulton Getty)
- 13. Armed picket searching a suspected revolutionary (Popperfoto)
- 14. Japanese soldiers in Hangzhou (Magnum Photos)
- 15. Mao addresses party members at Yanan (Camera Press)
- 16. Mao declaring the foundation of the People’s Republic of China (Magnum Photos/New China Pictures)
- 17. Production Brigade marches to work (Magnum Photos/René Burri)
- 18. Propaganda poster from the Cultural Revolution (Vintage Magazine Archive)
- 19. ‘Class enemies’ being paraded before the masses (Corbis/Bettman)
- 20. Democracy Wall, Beijing (Colorific)
- 21. Demonstrations in Tibet (Katz Pictures/Steve Lehman)
- 22. Pro-democracy demonstrations in Tiananmen Square (Topham Picturepoint)
- 23. Celebrating fifty years of Communist rule (Camera Press)
- 24. Traditional farming, Hainan (Popperfoto/Reuters)
- 25. Volkswagen plant, Shanghai (Magnum/Stuart Franklin)
- 26. The National People’s Congress in session (Corbis/AFP)
- 27. Nanjing Road, Shanghai (Corbis/Keren Su)
- 28. Shoppers in Beijing (Popperfoto/Reuters)
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