Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Preface xi
4. Frederic Wakeman’s Oeuvre in the Framework of World and Comparative History xiii
5. Navigating History: Voyages 1
6. Part One. China in the Context of World History
7. 1. China and the Seventeenth-Century World Crisis 27
8. 2. The Chinese Mirror: Universal Values and Particular Societies 44
9. Part Two. The Ming-Qing Period
10. 3. The Shun Interregnum of 1644 59
11. 4. Romantics, Stoics, and Martyrs in Seventeenth- Century China 98
12. 5. The Price of Autonomy: Intellectuals in Ming and Qing Politics 135
13. 6. Localism and Loyalism during the Qing Conquest of Jiangnan: The Tragedy of Jiangyin 174
14. Part Three. Shanghai in the Republic Period
15. 7. Licensing Leisure: The Chinese Nationalists’ Attempt to Regulate Shanghai, 1927–1949 217
16. 8. Shanghai Smuggling 248
17. Part Four. The Historiography of Chinese History
18. 9. The Use and Abuse of Ideology in the Study of Contemporary China 285
19. 10. Chinese Archives and American Scholarship on Modern Chinese History 315
20. Part Five. Modernity and State
21. 11. Civil Society in Late Imperial and Modern China 333
22. 12. Drury’s Occupation of Macao and China’s Response to Early Modern Imperialism 359
23. 13. Models of Historical Change: The Chinese State and Society, 1839–1989 370
24. 14. Reflection: Telling Chinese History 410
25. Appendix: Books by Frederic E. Wakeman Jr. 431
26. Acknowledgments 433
27. Index 435