Reappraising Republican China

Reappraising Republican China edited by Frederic Wakeman, Jr. and Richard Louis Edmonds. - Oxford; New York Oxford University Press 2005 - viii, 209 p. - Studies on Contemporary China .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of Contents Notes on Contributors The State of Studies on Republican China / Richard Louis Edmonds 1 State and Society in Early Republican Politics, 1912-18 / Mary Backus Rankin 6 Reflections on China's Late 19th and Early 20th-Century Economy / Loren Brandt 28 Civil Society and Urban Change in Republican China / Marie-Claire Bergere 55 The Evolution of Republican Government / Julia C. Strauss 75 The Military in the Republic / Hans Van De Ven 98 Shanghai Modernity: Commerce and Culture in a Republican City / Wen-Hsin Yeh 121 A Revisionist View of the Nanjing Decade: Confucian Fascism / Frederic Wakeman, Jr. 141 The Internationalization of China: Foreign Relations at Home and Abroad in the Republican Era / William C. Kirby 179 Index 205

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