Table of Contents

Richard Louis Edmonds: The State of Studies on Republican China
Mary Backus Rankin: State and Society in Early Republican Politics, 191218
Loren Brandt: Reflections on China's Late 19th and Early 20th-Century Economy
Marie-Claire Bergère: Civil Society and Urban Change in Republican China
Julia C. Strauss: The Evolution of Republican Government
Hans van de Ven: The Military in the Republic
Wen-hsin Yeh: Shanghai Modernity: Commerce and Culture in a Republican City
Frederic Wakeman: A Revisionist View of the Nanjing Decade: Confucian Fascism
William C. Kirby: The Internationalization of China: Foreign Relations at Home and Abroad in the Republican Era

About the Author

Frederic Wakeman, Jr. is Director of the Institute of East Asian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.

Richard Louis Edmonds is Senior Lecturer in Geography with reference to China at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in the University of London and Editor of The China Quarterly.

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