Making China modern: from the Great Qing to Xi Jinping

Part 1. The rise and fall of Qing China: Age of Glory: 1644-1800

Reordering the Chinese world: 1800-1870

Late Qing predicaments: 1870-1900

Part 2. Chinese revolutions: Upending the empire: 1900-1919

Rebuilding during the Republican Era: 1920-1937

China at war: 1938-1948

Part 3. Remaking China: Socialist transformation: 1949-1955

Leaping ahead: 1955-1965

Overthrowing everything: 1966-1976

Part 4. China rising

Reform and opening: 1977-1989

Overall advance: 1990-2012

Ambitions and anxieties: contemporary China.