Contemporary Studies on Modern Chinese History III

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Table of contents
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Translators’ note
Preface
1 The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement
	1.1 Vigorous development
	1.2 Zigzag development and retrogression
	1.3 Maturity and harvest
		1.3.1 The compilation, publication and related research of historical documents
		1.3.2 Discussions on the nature of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom regime
		1.3.3 Research on the historical figures
		1.3.4 Research on the politics
		1.3.5 Research on the opposite sides of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom
		1.3.6 Research on the military, diplomacy, economy and culture
		1.3.7 Study on the laws and regulations of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom
		1.3.8 Research on the religious, regional, and social history of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom
		1.3.9 The publication of a batch of large-scale reference books and monographs on the general history of the Taiping ...
	1.4 The status of research on the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom
	Notes
2 Sun Yat-sen studies
	2.1 An overview of the initial studies
		2.1.1 Sun Yat-sen’s early thoughts and activities
		2.1.2 On the Three People’s Principles
			(1) The Principle of Nationalism
			(2) The Principle of Democracy
			(3) The Principle of the People’s Livelihood
		2.1.3 Philosophical thought
	2.2 Reflection and recovery
		2.2.1 On the Three People’s Principles
			(1) The Principle of Nationalism
			(2) The Principle of Democracy
			(3) The Principle of People’s Livelihood
		2.2.2 On Sun Yat-sen’s philosophical thought
		2.2.3 Monographic studies
			(1) Sun Yat-sen’s relationship with the Wuchang Uprising
			(2) Sun’s yielding to Yuan Shikai
			(3) “The Second Revolution”, Chinese Revolutionary Party and the Constitution Protection Movement
			(4) The First National Congress of the KMT and the first the KMT-CCP Cooperation
	2.3 Moving toward prosperity
		2.3.1 Sun Yat-sen’s family background
		2.3.2 Three major policies
		2.3.3 The Principle of People’s Livelihood (Socialism)
		2.3.4 Sun’s relationship with modern Chinese warlords
		2.3.5 Sun’s view of Asia and the world
		2.3.6 Sun’s cultural thoughts
		2.3.7 Sun’s thought on opening up and utilizing foreign investment
	2.4 Deepening and expanding
		2.4.1 Sun Yat-sen and China’s modernization
		2.4.2 Sun Yat-sen and Chinese and Western culture
		2.4.3 Sun Yat-sen and Japan
		2.4.4 Sun Yat-sen and Soviet Russia
	2.5 New progress
		2.5.1 Sun Yat-sen and the world
		2.5.2 The relationship between Sun Yat-sen and his contemporaries
		2.5.3 Sun Yat-sen and the construction of a harmonious society
	2.6 Suggestions for improvement
	Notes
3 History of the 1911 Revolution
	3.1 The initial stage (1949–1966)
	3.2 The revival and rising stage (1976–1990)
	3.3 The stage of sustainable development (1991–1999)
	3.4 The deepening of research at the beginning of the 21st century (2000–2009)
	3.5 Retrospect and prospect
	Notes
4 History of the Northern Warlords
	4.1 Theoretical issues
		4.1.1 What is a warlord? What are the Northern Warlords?
		4.1.2 The origin, the time limit and the cause of the modern warlord politics
		4.1.3 The class basis of the Northern Warlords and the nature of its regime
		4.1.4 The historical status and role of the Northern Warlords Group
		4.1.5 The relationship between the Northern Warlords and the imperialist powers
	4.2 Studies on Yuan Shikai’s construction of the Beiyang Army and his reign over China
		4.2.1 The process and evaluation of Yuan Shikai’s founding of the Beiyang Army
		4.2.2 The reasons why Yuan Shikai succeeded Sun Yat-sen as Provisional President of the Republic of China
		4.2.3 Yuan Shikai’s negotiation with Japan on the “Twenty-one Demands”
		4.2.4 Yuan Shikai and the modernization of China’s economy
		4.2.5 The problem of Yuan Shikai’s class attribution and evaluation
	4.3 Studies on the Anhui Warlords
		4.3.1 The formation of the Anhui Warlords
		4.3.2 The relationship between the Anhui Warlords and Japan
		4.3.3 Activities of the key members of the Anhui Warlords
	4.4 Studies on the Zhili Warlords
		4.4.1 The reasons for the Zhili Warlords’ defeat in the Zhili-Fengtian War
		4.4.2 The relationship between the Zhili Warlords and Britain, America and other big powers
		4.4.3 Cao Kun and his related activities
		4.4.4 Wu Peifu and his Luoyang Warlord Group
		4.4.5 Feng Yuxiang and the evaluation of him
		4.4.6 Sun Chuanfang and his governance of Jiangsu and Zhejiang
		4.4.7 Wang Zhanyuan’s rule over Hubei
	4.5 Studies on the Fengtian Warlords
		4.5.1 The formation and characteristics of the Fengtian Warlords
		4.5.2 The relationship between the Fengtian Warlords and Japan
		4.5.3 The politics, military and economy of the Fengtian warlords
		4.5.4 Zhang Zuolin and his important staff members
	4.6 Several noteworthy problems
		4.6.1 Too much imitation but little innovation
		4.6.2 Too many repeated works
		4.6.3 Researchers seldom check or even do not check the reliability of the historical data
		4.6.4 Many case studies but few wholistic studies
	Notes
5 The Chinese People’s War of Resistance against Japanese aggression
	5.1 The relationship between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party during the Anti-Japanese War
	5.2 Battlefield behind enemy lines
	5.3 Front battlefield
	5.4 Enemy-occupied areas and puppet regimes
	5.5 Diplomacy during the Anti-Japanese War
		5.5.1 Sino-Japanese relations
		5.5.2 Sino-German relations
		5.5.3 Sino-Soviet Relation
		5.5.4 China’s relations with Britain and the United States
		5.5.5 Sino-French relations
	5.6 Economy during the Anti-Japanese war
	5.7 Ideology and culture during the Anti-Japanese War
	5.8 Japanese Policy of invasion of China and problems left over from the war
	5.9 Prospects for the future
	Notes
6 Studies on historical figures
	6.1 Reconstructing the value system and the practice
	6.2 Initial prosperity
	6.3 Problems in development
	Notes
7 Sorting and publishing of modern history materials
	7.1 Overview of the publishing work in the second half of the twentieth century
	7.2 Data collection of several hot topics
	7.3 Overview of the publishing work in the early 21st century
	Notes
8 Translation of overseas studies on Chinese modern history
	8.1 Translation mainly for criticism
	8.2 Flourishing era of translation
	8.3 Translated works proliferated
	Notes
9 Modern Chinese history studies from 2009 to 2019
	9.1 Historical theories, methods and seminal discussions
		9.1.1 Historical materialism and its understanding and development
		9.1.2 The spread of historical materialism in China
		9.1.3 The establishment of Marxist historiography in China
		9.1.4 Criticism of historical nihilism
		9.1.5 Equal and straightforward discussions
	9.2 A political history of the Late Qing
	9.3 Political history of the Republic of China
	9.4 Economic history
	9.5 History of Sino-foreign relations
		9.5.1 Sino-foreign relations during the late Qing government
		9.5.2 Sino-foreign relations during the Beijing Government period
		9.5.3 Sino-foreign relations during the reign of the Nanjing national government
	9.6 History of the Chinese revolution
	9.7 History of thought and culture
	9.8 Social history
	9.9 Taiwan history
	Notes
Index