Social History of China

The following sections are included:

• Exordium
• Contents

The following sections are included:

• General Description of Human Beings of Prehistory
• The Earliest Human Beings of China
• Ancient History and the History of Stone
• The Less-developed Economy of Original Communist Society
• The Social Relationship and Organization of Original Communist Society

The following sections are included:

• The Procession of the Establishment of Paternal Society
• The Characteristics of Paternal Society
• The Breaking Down of Clan Society and the Appearance of Country

The following sections are included:

• The Occurrence of Language
• The Occurrence of Thought
• The Occurrence of Religion

The following sections are included:

• Analysis of the Nationality of Yin
• The Origin of Yin Dynasty Ruins
• The Excavation of the Cultural Relics of Yin Dynasty Ruins
• The Economic Situation Reflected by the Words of Yin Dynasty Ruins
• The Social Relationships of Yin Dynasty
• The Decline of Yin Dynasty

The following sections are included:

• Political Nature and Brother Inheritance System of Yin Dynasty
• Custom and Habit of Yin Dynasty
• The Origin and Evolution of Words
• Religion of Yin Dynasty

The following sections are included:

• Introduction: Three Divisions of Feudal Society
• The View of Regarding People of Zhou as People of Rong
• The Living Condition before Zhou Destroying Yin Dynasty
• The Process of Zhou Dynasty Defeating Yin dynasty
• Was It Slavery or Serfdom in Early Zhou Dynasty?
• Review of Production Method of Western Zhou dynasty
• The Feudal Idea of Zhou Dynasty

The following sections are included:

• The Economic Condition of Spring and Autumn Period and Warring States
• Status of the Immediate Producers
• A Brief Survey of the Political Situation in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period
• Overview of the Academic Ideas during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period

The following sections are included:

• Rapid Rise of Urban Economy
• Rise of Capital
• Origin of the Peasant Uprisings and of the Phenomenon of Successive Imperial Fragmentations and Unifications
• Remark on the Power of Assimilation

The following sections are included:

• Reasons of the Unification of the Six States by the State of Qin
• Political and Economic Establishments after the Unification of the Six States by the State of Qin
• Overthrowing the Empire of Qin by the Heroes Who Made Peasant Riots as Signals
• Agriculture in the Han Dynasty
• Land Allocation and Peasants' Life in the Han Dynasty
• Commerce and Commerce-Restraining Policy in the Han Dynasty
• Wang Mang's Reform and the Failure
• Peasants' Riots in the Late Western Han Dynasty and the Late Eastern Han Dynasty
• Brief Summary of the Imperial Fragmentations in the Western Han Dynasty and the Eastern Han Dynasty
• Realization of Unification in the Western Han Dynasty

The following sections are included:

• Xiong Deshan and Social History of China: Postscript to the abridged English version of Social History of China
• References
• Index