1.Beginnings of Chinese Culture 2.Confucius:The First Private Teacher in Chinese History 3.Lan Zi:The Founder of Taoism 4.The Warring States Period:The Contention of a Hundred Schools 5.Ancient Historians:Uninterrupted Recording of Chi-nese History 6.Dong Zhongshu and wang Chong:Two Contra-dictory Great Philosophers of the Han Dynasties 7.The Coming of Buddhism to China 8.Pure Talk and Mysterious Learning 9.Chan(Zen)Buddhism and Huineng the Sixth Patriarch 10.Tang Poetry and Major Tang Poets 11.Tang Prose and Fiction:The Literary Reform 12.Wang Anshi,Sima Guang and Su shi:Three Great Figures of the Northern Song Dynasty 13.Zhu Xi:The Synthesizer of the Philosophy of Principle 14.Ci-Poems in Irregular Meter 15.The Four Great Inventions 16.Yuan Drama:One of the Three Peaks in the History of Drama in the World 17.The Rebuilding of Beijing and Zheng He's Voyages 18.Ming Novels and Its Three Masterpieces 19.The Rise of Southern Drama and Great Ad-vance of Short Fictions in the Ming Dynasty 20.Ming and Early Qing Thinkers:The Yangming School and Outstanding Progressive Scholars 21.Early Qing Fiction and Drama 22.Cao Xueqin and Dream of the Red Man-sions 23.Traditional Chinese Painting 24.The Opium War and Changes in Cultural Trends After it 25.Causes of the Long Feudal Period