Table of Contents

Introduction
Moving the Revolution Beyond Politics: The 1911 Revolution and the Common Man
The Republican Citizen
The Republican State and the National Community
The Death of Sun Yatsen: Heroes, Villains, and the Creation of National History
The Citizens' Revolution
The State Burial of Sun Yatsen and the Disappearance of the Common Man
Conclusion
Glossary
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Henrietta Harrison is Fulford Junior Research Fellow at St Anne's College, Oxford.

Reviews

Henrietta Harrison's account gives new meaning to many events in the period ... Her exemplary and painstaking research is presented in a delightful and highly readable style Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society An elegant and masterful investigation of the Republic as a symbolic enterprise and ritual parade ground ... Henrietta Harrison's book creates its own perspective and establishes a coherence and insight beyond existing historiography on the period Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society A welcome addition to a growing scholarly literature ... makes a convincing case for the rapid emergence and consolidation of a surprisingly coherent complex of new symbols of modern nationhood ... a substantial addition to the field The China Journal An excellent addition to the growing number of works examining the cultural dimensions of Chinese politics ... fascinating details China Quarterly Harrison has accomplished much in his work that will interest China historians, anthropologists and comparative scholars China Quarterly