(D) The Toba empire in North China (A.D. 385-550)
  1 The rise of the Toba State
  2 The Hun kingdom of the Hsia (407-431)
  3 Rise of the Toba to a great power
  4 Economic and social conditions
  5 Victory and retreat of Buddhism

    (E) Succession States of the Toba (A.D. 550-580): 
      Northern Ch’i dynasty, Northern Chou dynasty
  1 Reasons for the splitting of the Toba empire
  2 Appearance of the (Goek) Turks
  3 The Northern Ch’i dynasty; the Northern Chou dynasty

    (F) The southern empires
  1 Economic and social situation in the south
  2 Struggles between cliques under the Eastern Chin dynasty
    (A.D. 317-419)
  3 The Liu-Sung dynasty (A.D. 420-478) and the Southern Ch’i dynasty
    (A.D. 479-501)
  4 The Liang dynasty (A.D. 502-556)
  5 The Ch’en dynasty (A.D. 557-588) and its ending by the Sui
  6 Cultural achievements of the south

Chapter VIII:  THE EMPIRES OF THE SUI AND THE T’ANG

    (A) The Sui dynasty (A.D. 580-618)
  1 Internal situation in the newly unified empire
  2 Relations with Turks and with Korea
  3 Reasons for collapse

    (B) The T’ang dynasty (A.D. 618-906)
  1 Reforms and decentralization
  2 Turkish policy
  3 Conquest of Turkestan and Korea.  Summit of power
  4 The reign of the empress Wu:  Buddhism and capitalism
  5 Second blossoming of T’ang culture
  6 Revolt of a military governor
  7 The role of the Uighurs.  Confiscation of the capital of the
    monasteries
  8 First successful peasant revolt.  Collapse of the empire

MODERN TIMES

Chapter IX:  THE EPOCH OF THE SECOND DIVISION OF CHINA

(A) The period of the Five Dynasties (906-960)
1 Beginning of a new epoch
2 Political situation in the tenth century
3 Monopolistic trade in South China.  Printing and paper money in the
north
4 Political history of the Five Dynasties

    (B) Period of Moderate Absolutism
    (1) The Northern Sung dynasty
  1 Southward expansion
  2 Administration and army.  Inflation
  3 Reforms and Welfare schemes
  4 Cultural situation (philosophy, religion, literature, painting)
  5 Military collapse

    (2) The Liao (Kitan) dynasty in the north (937-1125)
  1 Sociological structure.  Claim to the Chinese imperial throne
  2 The State of the Kara-Kitai

    (3) The Hsi-Hsia State in the north (1038-1227)
  1 Continuation of Turkish traditions

    (4) The empire of the Southern Sung dynasty (1127-1279)
  1 Foundation
  2 Internal situation
  3 Cultural situation; reasons for the collapse

    (5) The empire of the Juchen in the north (i 115-1234)
  1 Rapid expansion from northern Korea to the Yangtze
  2 United front of all Chinese
  3 Start of the Mongol empire