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List of contributors
Introduction
1 Japanese goals, Chinese realities at the grassroots: the Japanese Occupation in northern Zhejiang, 1937–42
R. Keith Schoppa
2 The rise of the Chinese Communist military-fiscal party-state in Shandong Province, 1937–45
Sherman Xiaogang Lai
3 New China Daily: social change and the class project in wartime Nationalist China
Joshua H. Howard
4 Liberation: a view from the Southwest
Kristin Stapleton
5 The search for a Socialist everyday: the urban communes
Fabio Lanza
6 Changes in the rural land system and power structure in the countryside
Liu Yigao
7 "There is no crisis and it is going to go away soon, anyhow"—propaganda, denialism and revisionism in debating the Great Leap Forward famine
Lauri Paltemaa
8 Gospel light or imperialist poison? Controversies of the Christian community in China, 1922–55
Melissa Wei-Tsing Inouye
9 A (wo)men’s revolution? Small feet, large hands and visions of womanhood in China’s long twentieth century
Barbara Mittler
10 The afterlife of Sun Yat-sen during the Republic (1925–49)
Xavier Paulès
11 The New Life Movement and national sacrifice
Maggie Clinton
12 Learning the new culture: rural literacy education in Shanxi in the 1930s and 1940s
Di Luo
13 Making Taiwan Chinese, 1945–60
Tehyun Ma
14 Chinese professions, the nation and revolution, 1895–1965
Charles W. Hayford
15 Roles of the beautiful nation in the making of a revolutionary Middle Kingdom
Xu Guoqi
16 Closest model, rival and fateful enemy: China’s political economy, law and Japan
Joyman Lee
17 Ambiguous paradigms: the Russian model and the Chinese Revolution
James Z. Gao
18 All rivers flow into the sea: the making of China’s most cosmopolitan city
Hanchao Lu
19 Public space and public life: transformation of urban China, 1900–2000
Wang Di
20 The nationalization of the hardship of travel in China, 1895–1949: progress, hygiene and national concern
António Barrento
21 Chinese revolutions and the ebb and flow of revolutionary historiography
Q. Edward Wang
Index
Biography
Alan Baumler is Professor of History and Asian Studies Coordinator at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, USA. He is the author of Worse Than Floods and Wild Beasts: The Chinese and Opium Under the Republic and co-editor of The Chinese Historical Review.
