1. Unity and Utopia ...................................... 9
2. The Earliest Foundations .............................. 14
3. The Pleistocene and East Asia ......................... 26
4. Earliest Asians: Java ................................. 33
5. Earliest Asians: China ................................ 45
6. Cultures of the Pleistocene ........................... 57
7. Origins of the Chinese ................................ 71
8. Legendary Origins ..................................... 76
9. Dawn Over the Yellow River ............................ 82
10. Kansu—Link to the West? .............................. 102
11. The Shang ............................................ 114
12. China—In Retrospect .................................. 132
13. Japan: A Paradox ..................................... 141
14. At the Fringe ........................................ 162
Bibliography and Notes ............................... 181
Index ................................................ 189

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