Table of Contents

Introduction Part I: The Challenges of Reform 1. The Reform Predicament 2. Late Qing Governors and Provincial Assemblies 3. Conflict and Competition: A New Perspective on Late Qing Politics Part II: The Sichuan Railway Crisis: Prelude to Revolution 4. Zaifeng and Qing Railway Policy Part III: Hubei Reforms and the Wuchang Uprising 5. The Policies in Hubei 6. Tang Hualong in the 1911 Revolution Part IV: Qing Officials and the Revolution 7. Provincial Officials in 1911 8. On the Mentality of Manchu and Mongol Elites During the 1911 Revolution Part V: Yuan Shikai 9. Zaifeng's Dismissal of Yuan Shikai and Sino-US-Japanese Diplomacy 10. The Qing’s Three Armies after the Wuchang Uprising 11. Yuan Shikai and the February 1912 ‘Beijing Mutiny’ Part VI: The Revolution and the Frontier 12. The ‘Political Game’ and ‘State-Building:’ Outer Mongolia during the 1911 Revolution

About the Author

Joseph W. Esherick is Emeritus professor of History, University of California, San Diego, USA.

C. X. George Wei is Professor and Head of the Department of History at the University of Macau.

Reviews

"Although hints about current political debates are intriguing, the volume will be useful above all to graduate students and professors of modem Chinese history seeking an introduction to current Chinese scholarship on the Revolution of 1911. Summing Up: Highly Recommended" – K.E Stapleton, State University of New York in CHOICE