An urban history of China

The emergence of China's imperial urban civilization (Antiquity to 220 CE)

Expansion of China's imperial urban civilization to the south (220-755)

The Tang-Song transition and its effects on China's imperial urban civilization (907-1402)

The flowering of Chinese imperial urban civilization (1402-1799)

The seeds of urban modernity (1800-1895)

Urban modernity in Republican China (1895-1949)

The Maoist period (1949-1976)

The Reform era and the present.