The emergence of China's imperial urban civilization (Antiquity to 220 CE)
Expansion of China's imperial urban civilization to the south (220-755)
The Tang-Song transition and its effects on China's imperial urban civilization (907-1402)
The flowering of Chinese imperial urban civilization (1402-1799)
The seeds of urban modernity (1800-1895)
Urban modernity in Republican China (1895-1949)
The Maoist period (1949-1976)
The Reform era and the present.