China's Quest for Modernization: A Historical Perspective Book

	Preface
1	Approaches to the Study of Modern Chinese History: External versus Internal Causations	1
2	Middle County Radicalism: The May Fourth Movement in Hangzhou	22
3	The Evolution of Modern Chinese Society from the Perspective of Population Changes, 1840-1949	50
4	Historical Demography in Late Imperial China: Recent Research Results and Implications	65
5	Modernization and the Structure of the Chinese Economy in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries	87
6	A New Approach to China's Century of Great Transformation, 1840s-1940s	129
7	Western Learning and Social Transmutation in the Late Qing	150
8	Dowager Empress Cixi and Toshimichi: A Comparative Study of Modernization in China and Japan	175
9	Political Parties, Party Conflicts, and Society in Early Republican China	191
10	Intercultural Connections and Chinese Development: External and Internal Spheres of Modern China's Foreign Relations	208
11	The Emergence and Development of China's Modern Capitalist Enterprises	234
12	Popular Protest and Political Progress in Modern China	250
13	Power Structure and Modernization Policies in Twentieth-Century China	267
14	The Influence of Shanghai's Modernization on the Economy of the Yangzi Valley	279
15	State and Civil Society in the History of Chinese Modernity	300
16	Civil Society in Late Imperial and Modern China	325
17	Issues in the Evolution of Modern China in East Asian Comparative Perspective	352
	Contributors	382