Table of Contents

WHAT IS A DOCUMENT?; HOW TO READ A DOCUMENT; INTRODUCTION; NOTES ON SOURCES AND INTERPRETATION; PROLOGUE: THE BOXER CATASTROPHE; CHINA AND THE WEST; 1. An Old World Dies; A New One is Born; THE REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT; ENDING TRADITIONS; 2. The Slide into Chaos; THE PRESIDENCY OF YUAN SHIKAI; WARLORDS; 3. Forming a New Culture: The May Fourth Movement; POLITICAL ACTIVITY; A CULTURAL REVOLUTION; THE RUSSIAN MODEL; 4. Which Way Do We Go?: Revolution in the 1920s; A GROWING CONSUMER CULTURE; THE LEGACY OF SUN YAT-SEN; REVOLUTION; 5. The Nanjing Decade; SOCIAL CURRENTS; ONE DAY IN CHINA; POLITICAL AND MILITARY REALITIES; 6. Communist Resurgence; THE JIANGXI SOVIET AND ITS DEMISE; LITERATURE AND DISSENT; 7. China at War: The Fight Against Japan; JAPAN'S "NEW ORDER IN ASIA"; CHINESE COLLABORATION; WAR CRIMES; WAR YEARS, A WESTERN VIEW; 8. Civil War; SOURCES OF GUOMINDANG DEFEAT; EVALUATIONS OF THE CIVIL WAR; 9. The Mao Years; MAO, THE LEADER; SOCIAL REVOLUTION; THE GREAT LEAP FORWARD; THE CULTURAL REVOLUTION AND AFTER; 10. Picture Essay: The Cult of Mao Zedong; 11. "To Get Rich is Glorious": The Reforms of Deng Xiaoping and Jiang Zemin; REFORMS OF DENG XIAOPING; IMPACT OF REFORM

About the Author

R. Keith Schoppa is Edward and Catherine Doehler Chair in Asian History at Loyola University, Maryland. He is the author of several monographs and textbooks on Chinese history, including Blood Road (1998), which won the Association for Asian Studies 1997 Levenson Prize for the best book on twentieth-century China.