ibidem-Press, Stuttgart
Contents
1. The Opium Wars and China’s Decline
China and the World before 1840
British Opium Smuggling and Lin Zexu’s Anti-Smuggling Endeavor
The Treaty of Nanjing and Its Aftermath
The Chinese Intellectuals’ Reaction and Solution
Social Changes in Post-War China
2. The Qing Government in Despair
The Taiping Rebellion and Its Socio-Political Experiments
The Aggressive Anglo-French Expedition Against China
Tsarist Russia: A Grabber of Chinese Lands
The Taiping Rebellion in Its Late Phase: Zeng Guofan and the Hunan Army
The Fall of the Heavenly Kingdom of Great Peace
Changes of the Central and Local Governments
The Self-Strengthening Movement (SSM)
Reformism in Its Initial Stages
Border Crises and the Sino-French War
Endless Incidents Involving Christian Missionaries
The Treaty of Shimonoseki and the Cession of Taiwan
4. Post-1895 China: Reform, Rebellion, and Revolution
Return of the Liao Dong Peninsula to China and the Imperialist Powers’ Rat Race in the Far East
China’s Sprouting National Capitalism
Sun Yat-sen and Early Revolutionaries
The Abortive 1898 Hundred Days’ Reform
The Boxer Uprising: A Chinese Peasants’ Patriotic Anti-Imperialistic Endeavor
The Aggressive Allied Forces of the Eight Powers and Qing’s Response
The Boxer Protocol and a Fully Semi-Colonized and Semi-Feudalized China
Qing’s New Policies and Ensuing Social Changes
The British Empire’s Invasion of Tibet and the Russo-Japanese Conflict in Northeast China
Tongmenghui and the Debates Involving Revolutionaries and Conservatives
Boycotting American Goods and Restoring China’s Rights
Building China’s Constitutional Monarchy
6. The 1911 Revolution: A Blend of Success and Failure
The Crisis-Ridden Qing
The Huanghuagang Uprising and Railway Protection Movement
Sun Yat-sen, President of the Nanjing Provisional Government
The Collapse of Qing and the Rise of Yuan Shikai
7. China at Its Lowest Ebb: The Rule of the Beiyang Warlords
Yuan Shikai and Sun Yat-sen
The Rapid Collapse of the Hongxian Reign
China under the Warlords’ Rule
The Growth of China’s National Capitalism and the Working Class
The New Culture and May Fourth Movements
The Dissemination of Marxism and Socialism
8. The Beginning of China’s Tortuous Path to Progress
The Birth of the Communist Party of China
The Kuomintang’s First National Congress, the First United Front, and the Northern Expedition
The Clash Between the CPC and the Kuomintang and the Failure of the First Revolutionary Civil War