This book is a testament to the accomplishments of Republican studies during the 1980s and early 1990s. Leading scholars review many aspects of contemporary research on the Republican era, ranging from the influence of fascism on Chiang Kai-Shek to the transition from the Qing dynasty to the Republic. Relevant for all interested in the key period in China between Monarchy and Communism.
The State of Studies on Republican China,Richard Louis Edmonds State and Society in Early Republican Politics, 191218,Mary Backus Rankin Reflections on China's Late 19th and Early 20th-Century Economy,Loren Brandt Civil Society and Urban Change in Republican China,Marie-Claire Berg?re The Evolution of Republican Government,Julia C. Strauss The Military in the Republic,Hans van de Ven Shanghai Modernity: Commerce and Culture in a Republican City,Wen-hsin Yeh A Revisionist View of the Nanjing Decade: Confucian Fascism,Frederic Wakeman The Internationalization of China: Foreign Relations at Home and Abroad in the Republican Era,William C. Kirby
Frederic Wakeman, Jr. is Director of the Institute of East Asian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.
Richard Louis Edmonds is Senior Lecturer in Geography with reference to China at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in the University of London and Editor ofThe China Quarterly.