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INTRODUCTION.
THE EARLIEST TIMES
ANTIQUITY
THE MIDDLE AGES
MODERN TIMES
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[Transcriber's Note: The following text contains numerous non-English words containing diacritical marks not contained in the ASCII character set. Characters accented by those marks, and the corresponding text representations are as follows (where x represents the character being accented). All such symbols in this text above the character being accented:
breve (u-shaped symbol): [)x]
caron (v-shaped symbol): [vx]
macron (straight line): [=x]
acute (egu) accent: ['x]
Additionally, the author has spelled certain words inconsistently. Those have been adjusted to be consistent where possible. Examples of such adjustments are as follows:
From To
Northwestern North-western
Southwards Southward
Programme Program
re-introduced reintroduced
practise practice
Lotos Lotus
Ju-Chen Juchen
cooperate co-operate
life-time lifetime
man-power manpower
favor favour
etc.
In general such changes are made to be consistent with the predominate usage in the text, or if there was not a predominate spelling, to the more modern.]
A HISTORY OF CHINA
by
WOLFRAM EBERHARD