The Tao of China
   
written by a barbarian outsider

Volume I: Ancient China

Part I. Foundations

Prologue to the Tao of China

1. Calligraphy: Tao of China

2. China's Three Doctrines

3. The History of Taoism?

4. China’s Body

5. The Dynamics of Eurasian Geography

6. China’s Geography

Part II. Prehistoric China

7. Racial and Cultural Beginnings

8. Neolithic China, the Yangshao

9. The Longshan

10. Mythical and Legendary China

Part III. Bronze Age China (Shang)

11. Shang dynasty: 1765-1122 BC

12. Bronze & Taoist alchemy

13. The Shang, Invaders or Indigenous?

14. Bronze Age Power vs. Paleolithic Fertility

15. Chinese ideograms, the Gods & Divination

16. Prehistoric Southeast Asia's China connection

17. Cultural Diffusion from the West via Lake Baikal

18. The Chariot

19. The Northern Siberian connection

20. Ritualization of the Shang culture

Part IV. Classic China (Chou)

21. Western Chou (1122-771 BCE)

22. The I Ching & Yin-Yang theory

23. The shih and the ju

Part V. Spring and Autumn Era (722 -481 BCE)

24. Confucius (551-479 BCE) & Confucianism

24A. Confucius: Applications

25. Lao Tzu (602-478 BCE) & the Tao Te Ching

26. Body Wisdom of Mother Li

26A. The Lao Tzu: Cultivating Feminine Energy

27. The Sage & the Mandate of Heaven

28. Confucius on the Tao

Part VI. Iron Age China

29. Warring States Era (403-221 BCE)

30. Iron

30A. Taoism & Chuang Tzu

31. Chuang Tzu obliterates the Verbal Reality

31A. Nei-yeh: Inner Cultivation

32. Five phases, wu-hsing

32A. Fire, Earth, Water, Wood & Metal: Applications

33. Great Learning, Doctrine of the Mean & Legalism

34. Ch’in Empire (221-207 BCE)

Volume II: Imperial China

Part VII. 1st Millenium Imperial China: Han to T’ang

35. Han dynasty (206 BCE-220 CE)

36. Confucianism on the rise

37. The Emergence of Taoism

38. The Period of Disunity (221-589 CE)

39. Wang Pi (226-249 CE)

40: Sui (581-618) & T’ang (618-907) dynasty

41: Buddhism's Rise, Fall & Transformation during the T'ang

Part VIII. 2nd Millennium China: Sung to Ch’ing

42: The Sung (960-1279 CE)

43: The Yuan Dynasty (1279-1368)

44: The Ming Dynasty (1368-1644)

44A: Nomadic Relationships & The Fall of the Ming

45: The Manchus (1645-1910)

Part IX. 20th Century China

46: The Modern Era of Fragmentation (1911-1949)

47: A brief history – Tibet & her Conquerors

48: Red China (1949-> present)

49: The Good, the Bad, & the Same of Chinese Communism

50: History of Taijiquan