China Reconstructs

by Chu, Cindy Yik-yi; Mak, Ricardo K.S.; Huang, Ko-wu; Leung, Philip Yuen-sang; Ke-wen, Wang; Yip, Ka-che; Leibold, James P.; Wou, Odoric Y.K.; Fung, Chau Chi; Coble, Parks M.

• ISBN13: 9780761826002
• ISBN10: 0761826009
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-06-05
• Publisher: UPA

Summary

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

Foreword	v
Preface	vii
Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction	1	(10)
Cindy Yik-yi Chu
Ricardo K. S. Mak
I. The Response of the Elite
Dao, Science and Yan Fu	11	(14)
Ricardo K. S. Mak
The Reception of Yan Fu in Twentieth-Century China	25	(20)
Ko-wu Huang
Legitimation of Sun Yat-senism	45	(18)
Philip Yuen-sang Leung
Wang Jingwei and the 1911 Revolution	63	(20)
Wang Ke-wen
II. Strategies of the Political Parties
Guomindang's Refugee Relief Efforts, 1937-1945	83	(20)
Ka-che Yip
Rethinking Guomindang National Minority Policy and the Case of Inner Mongolia	103	(22)
James P. Leibold
Revolutionaries in Henan	125	(20)
Odoric Y. K. Wou
III. The Efforts of Society in Reconstructing History
The Study of Treaty Ports in China since 1949	145	(16)
Chau Chi Fung
Chinese Bankers in the Crossfire, 1937-1945	161	(18)
Parks M. Coble
Maryknoll Sisters in Twentieth-Century Hong Kong	179	(22)
Cindy Yik-yi Chu
About the Contributors	201	(4)
Index	205