Sun Yatsen: Seeking a Newer China, 1st edition

CONTENTS

Editor’s Preface

Author’s Preface

• A Note on Chinese Spellings
• Acknowledgments

I        High and Dry

• The Rome of the East
• The Confucian Heritage
  
• Manchu Rule
  
• The Frightening Nineteenth Century

II       A Marginal Youth

• Growing Up Marginal
• Sun Becomes a Doctor
• The Failure of Self-Strengthening
• Sun and China at the Crossroads
• The Sino-Japanese War
• Reviving China by Force

III     Kidnapped in London

• Kidnapped at the Chinese Legation
• Effects of the Kidnapping
• The New Imperialism Comes to China
• The Hundred Days of Reform

IV      Sun in Meiji Japan

• The Japanese Model
• Sun Meets Miyazaki
• The Huizhou Uprising
• Sun’s Japan Connection

V       Creating the Revolutionary Alliance

• Chinese Students in Tokyo
• The New Climate of Opinion
• The Russo-Japanese War
• The Birth of the Revolutionary Alliance

VI      Planning China’s Future

• The Principle of Nationalism
• The Principle of Democracy
• The Principle of People’s Livelihood
• The Principles in Historical Perspective

VII    In Pursuit of Revolution

• Revolutionaries vs. Reformists
• The French Connection
• Qing Efforts at Reform
• Sun’s Second Wind

VIII   The News in Denver

• Running Off the Track
• Where Was Sun?
• Sun as Provisional President
• The Revolution in Hindsight

IX      The Dream Goes Awry

• Sun and Railways
• Yuan Shikai Becomes a Dictator
• Sun’s Opportunism, Yuan’s Fall
• The Turn to Warlordism

X       Interlude:  Sun’s Marriages

• Sun’s Relationships Before the Revolution
• Sun and Soong Qingling

XI      The South Secedes

• World War I, China, and Sun
• Sun and the May Fourth Movement
• Sun’s Writings at the Rue Molière