List of TablesList of FiguresPrefaceAcknowledgmentsPart One OverviewChapter One When Did China Fall Behind?Chapter Two Differences Between the Beliefs and Value Systems of the West and ChinaPart Two Myths and Realities of Late Imperial ChinaChapter Three What Closed Door Policy?Chapter Four Almost Everybody Disliked MerchantsChapter Five Free Markets Without Capitalism?Chapter Six Why Is the Chinese Population So Large?Chapter Seven Literacy Rates of Ming and Qing ChinaChapter Eight Why Hadn’t the Chinese Discovered the New World and Australia?Chapter Nine What Happened to Chinese Firearms?Chapter Ten Why China Had No Scientific and Industrial Revolution?Chapter Eleven Rule of Law, Rule of Man and Rule by LawChapter Twelve Ruling Class Democracy versus Rule by MandarinsPart Three Why China Slept and Implications for the FutureChapter Thirteen China’s Long Sleep: Imperial Overstretch and Its ConsequencesChapter Fourteen What If Europeans Had Not Come to China in the Early Modern Period?Chapter Fifteen Implications for China’s ResurgenceIndex