China since 1911 Book

	Acknowledgements
	Map of the Provinces of Eastern China in the Mid-Republican Era, c. 1928
	Romanisation and Abbreviations
1	Introduction	1
2	The Early Republic	11
	Politics in 1912	12
	Politics in 1913	16
	Politics in 1914	20
	China and the War in Europe	22
	Yuan Shikai's Monarchy Project	24
	The Death of Yuan Shikai and its Aftermath	26
	Parliament and the First World War	28
	Wider Trends in Society in the 1910s	32
3	Central Collapse	40
	The Warlords	40
	Warlords: Their Territories and Wars	47
	Opposition to Warlordism: The May Fourth Movement	53
	The Washington Conference	58
	The Nationalist and Communist Parties	59
	The Re-emergence of the Nationalist Party	60
	Russian Interest in China	61
	Early Communist Activity in China	63
	Reorganisation of the Nationalist Party	66
	The Nationalist Movement after the Death of Sun Yixian	68
	The Northern Expedition	72
	Jiang Jieshi's Break with the Communists	74
4	Reconstruction and its Problems	84
	Establishment of the Nationalist Government	85
	Military Allies and Rivals of the Nanjing Government	87
	Jiang Jieshi and Nationalist Party Factions	91
	Foreign Relations and Nationalism	94
	Political Reform and Democracy	96
	Economic Policies and People's Livelihood	97
	The Nanjing Decade: An Assessment	100
	The Communist Party: Rural Soviets and the Sixth Congress	102
	Li Lisan and the Attempt to Retake Cities	106
	Land Policy	109
	Military Policy	111
	The Long March	113
5	The Second Collapse	117
	Japan's Military Advance, 1931-6	119
	The Xi'an Incident	123
	The Anti-Japanese War	125
	The End of the Second World War in China	145
	The Civil War	149
6	The Early People's Republic	161
	Consolidation	162
	Land Reform	165
	The Political Structure	167
	Early Foreign Relations	169
	Economic growth and Socialist Transformation	173
	The Intellectuals	178
	Foreign Policy 1953-7	181
	Problems with the Soviet Model	184
7	The Chinese Way: Mark One	187
	The Great Leap Forward	188
	The Jinmen (Quemoy) Crisis	191
	The Slowing of the Great Leap Forward	192
	The Collapse of the Great Leap Forward	197
	Rebuilding after the End of the Great Leap	199
	The Cultural Revolution	207
	The Ninth Party Congress and After	224
8	The Chinese Way: Mark Two	230
	Politics in 1972 and 1973	233
	Politics in 1974 and 1975	234
	The Death of Zhou Enlai, and Politics in 1976	241
	The Death of Mao Zedong, and the Party 1976-8	244
	The Third Plenum of the Eleventh Central Committee	249
	Changes in Agricultural Policy	250
	Party Leadership 1978-87	254
	Foreign Relations and the Open Door	259
	Political Reforms in the early 1980s	265
	Urban Reform in the 1980s	268
	Crisis in the late 1980s	270
	China in the 1990s	276
9	Other Parts of 'Greater China' Since 1911	280
	Selective Bibliography	290
	Index	298