The Cambridge History of China


The Cambridge History of China is an ongoing series of books published by the Cambridge University Press covering the history of China from the founding of the Qin dynasty in 221 BC to 1982 AD. Chinese history before the Qin dynasty is covered in an independent volume, The Cambridge History of Ancient China which follows the Pinyin romanization system; the other volumes except vol. 2 use Wade–Giles romanization.
The series was conceived by British historian Denis C. Twitchett and American historian John K. Fairbank in the late 1960s, and publication began in 1978. The complete History will contain 15 volumes made up of 17 books with volumes 5 and 9 consisting of two books each.
An unauthorized Chinese translation of volume 7 was made in 1992 by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. In this version, the map of the Ming empire in the original was replaced by a more extensive map from The Historical Atlas of China, while the other maps were used unchanged.
Volume 2 was published in 2019. The final volume, Volume 4, will be published in 2020.

Volumes

The volumes of the series are as follows:
  1. The Ch'in and Han Empires, 221 BC–AD 220, December 1986..
  2. The Six Dynasties, 220–589, 7 November 2019..
  3. Sui and T'ang China, 589–906 AD, Part 1, September 1979.. This volume covers the political history of the Sui and Tang dynasties.
  4. Sui and T'ang China, 589–906 AD, Part 2.
  5. The Sung Dynasty and its Precursors, 907–1279, Part 1, March 2009.. This part covers the political history of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms and the Song dynasty.
  6. * Sung China, 960–1279 AD, Part 2, March 2015.. This part covers government, economy, law, education, society, and philosophy of the Song dynasty.
  7. Alien Regimes and Border States, 907–1368, November 1994.. This volume covers the Khitan Liao dynasty, the Jurchen Jin dynasty, the Tangut Western Xia dynasty, and the Mongol Yuan dynasty.
  8. The Ming Dynasty, 1368–1644, Part 1, February 1988.. This volume covers the political history of the Ming dynasty.
  9. The Ming Dynasty, 1368–1644, Part 2, January 1998.. This volume covers government, law, foreign relations, economy, culture, and religion of the Ming dynasty.
  10. The Ch'ing Empire to 1800, Part 1, December 2002.. This part covers the Manchu conquest of China, and the political history and society of the Qing dynasty from Nurhaci to the Qianlong Emperor.
  11. *The Ch'ing Dynasty to 1800, Part 2 April 2016.. This part covers early Qing conquests and international relations, as well as provincial governance, learning, Taoism, and local elites in the early Qing.
  12. Late Ch'ing 1800–1911, Part 1, June 1978.. This volume covers the political history of the last 111 years of Manchu rule over China.
  13. Late Ch'ing 1800–1911, Part 2, September 1980.. This volume covers the economy, foreign relations, political and social changes, and the revolution movement of the late Qing.
  14. Republican China, 1912–1949, Part 1, September 1983..
  15. Republican China, 1912–1949, Part 2, July 1986..
  16. The People's Republic, Part 1: Emergence of Revolutionary China, 1949–1965, June 1987..
  17. The People's Republic, Part 2: Revolutions Within the Chinese Revolution, 1966–1982, November 1991..

    ''The Cambridge History of Ancient China''

The Cambridge History of Ancient China: From the Origins of Civilization to 221 BC edited by Michael Loewe and Edward L. Shaughnessy was published in 1999. This book provides a survey of the institutional and cultural history of China up to the unification of China by Qin Shi Huang in 221 BC. Fourteen specialists on early Chinese history including Robert Bagley, Kwang-chih Chang, Cho-yun Hsu, David Keightley, Mark Edward Lewis, David S. Nivison, and Jessica Rawson contributed to the book.