Reprinted 1966
Third edition (revised
and enlarged) 1969



_To My Wife_




CONTENTS


INTRODUCTION 1

_THE EARLIEST TIMES_


Chapter I: PREHISTORY

1 Sources for the earliest history 7
2 The Peking Man 8
3 The Palaeolithic Age 8
4 The Neolithic Age 9
5 The eight principal prehistoric cultures 10
6 The Yang-shao culture 12
7 The Lung-shan culture 15
8 The first petty States in Shansi 16