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Republican China, 1912-1949. Part I

John King Fairbank (Editor)
This is the first of two volumes of this authoritative Cambridge history which review the Republican period, between the demise of imperial China and the establishment of the People's Republic. It will be useful both as narrative history and as a reference source on the history and politics of China.
Print Book, English, 1983
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge [England], 1983
Cambridge history of China, v. 12, volume 12
History
xv, 1002 pages : maps ; 24 cm
9780521235419, 0521235413
10084068
1. Introduction: Maritime and continental in China's history John K. Fairbank; 2. Economic trends, 1912–49 Albert Feuerwerker; 3. The foreign presence in China Albert Feuerwerker; 4. Politics in the aftermath of revolution: the era of Yuan Shih-k'ai, 1912–16 Ernest P. Young; 5. A constitutional republic: the Peking government, 1916–28 James E. Sheridan; 6. The warlord era: politics and militarism under the Peking governmnet, 1916–28 James E. Sheridan; 7. Intellectual change: from the Reform movement to the May fourth movement, 1895–1920 Charlotte Furth; 8. Themes in intellectual history: May fourth and after Benjamin I. Schwartz; 9. Literary trends I: the quest for modernity, 1895–1927 Leo Ou-Fan Lee; 10. The Chinese communist movement to 1927 Jerome Ch'en; 11. The nationalist revolution: from Canton to Nanking, 1923–28 C. Martin Wilbur; 12. The Chinese bourgeoisie, 1911–37 Marie-Claire Bergère.