China's Quest for Modernization

Preface – vii

1. Approaches to the study of modern Chinese history: external versus internal causations– 1
    Wang Xi

2. Middle county radicalism: the May Fourth Movement in Hangzhou – 22
    Wen-Hsin Yeh

3. Evolution of modern Chinese society from the perspective of population changes, 1840-1949 – 50
    Zhang Kaimin

4. Historical demography in late imperial China: recent research results and implications
    James Lee

5. Modernization and the structure of the Chinese economy in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries – 87
    Madeleine Zelin

6. New approach to China's century of great transformation, 1840s-1940s – 129
    Luo Rongqu

7. Western learning and social transmutation in the late Qing – 150
    Chen Jiang

8. Dowager Empress Cixi and Toshmichi: a comparative study of modernization in China and Japan – 175
    Ding Richu

9. Political parties, party conflicts, and society in early Republican China – 191
    Yang Liqiang

10. Intercultural connections and Chinese development: external and internal spheres of modern China's foreign relations – 208
    William C. Kirby

11. Emergence and development of China's modern capitalist enterprises – 234
    Zhang Guohui

12. Popular protest and political progress in modern China – 250
    Elizabeth J. Perry

13. Power structure and modernization policies in twentieth-century China – 267
    Marie-Claire Berge`re –

14. Influence of Shanghai's modernization on the economy of the Yangzi Valley – 279
    Zhang Zhongli and Pan Junxiang –

15. State and civil society in the history of Chinese modernity – 300
    Prasenjit Duara

16. Civil society in late imperial and modern China – 325
    Frederic Wakeman, Jr.

17. Issues in the evolution of modern China in East Asian comparative perspective – 352
    Joshua A. Fogel.

Contributors – 382