Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. ILLUSTRATIONS ix
4. TABLES xi
5. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xiii
6. PROLOGUE 1
7. 1. WUHAN BEFORE THE WAR 5
8. 2. DEFENDING CENTRAL CHINA, 1938: MILITARY LEADERSHIP AND STRATEGY 18
9. 3. THE BATTLE FOR XUZHOU AND THE DEFENSE OF WUHAN 31
10. 4. WUHAN’S REFUGEE CRISIS 44
11. 5. CULTURE AND THE PRESS 62
12. 6. MOBILIZING YOUTH 83
13. 7. ROMANTIC HANKOU: THE INTERNATIONAL DIMENSION 97
14. CONCLUSION 111
15. APPENDIX: WARTIME WUHAN, A CHRONOLOGY 119
16. NOTES 123
17. GLOSSARY 145
18. BIBLIOGRAPHY 149
19. INDEX 169