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China Reconstructs includes ten articles that investigate the reconstruction of modern China and provide different dimensions to the vibrant and multifaceted history of the country. The book discusses how prominent individuals, political parties, and ordinary people alike looked for ways to "reconstruct China" in a period of great political upheavals.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Foreword
Chapter 2 Preface
Chapter 3 Acknowledgments
Chapter 4 Introduction
Chapter 5 The Response of the Elite:Dao, Science and Yan Fu; The Reception of Yan Fu in Twentieth-Century China; Legitimation of Sun Yat-senism; Wang Jingwei and the 1911 Revolution
Chapter 6 Strategies of the Political Parties: Guomindang's Refugee Relief Efforts, 1937-1945; Rethinking Guomindang National Minority Policy and the Case of Inner Mongolia; Revolutionaries in Henan
Chapter 7 The Efforts of Society in Reconstructing History: The Study of Treaty Ports in China since 1949; Chinese Bankers in the Crossfire, 1937-1945; Maryknoll Sisters in Twentieth-Century Hong Kong
Chapter 8 About the Contributors
Chapter 9 Index

Product details

Published 05 Jun 2003
Format Paperback
Edition 1st
Pages 218
ISBN 9780761826002
Imprint University Press of America
Dimensions 216 x 135 mm
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Cindy Yik-yi Chu

Anthology Editor

Ricardo K.S. Mak

Contributor

Ko-wu Huang

Contributor

Wang Ke-wen

Contributor

Ka-che Yip

Contributor

Odoric Y.K. Wou

Contributor

Chau Chi Fung

Contributor

Parks M. Coble

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