Introduction

1. Nineteenth-Century China: The Disintegration of the Old Order and the Impact of the West

2. Chinese Merchant Guilds: An Historical Inquiry

3. Statecraft and the Rise of Enterprise: The Late Ch’ing Perspective

4. The Beginnings of China’s Modernization

5. Education for Its Own Sake: Notes on Tseng Kuo-fan’s Family Letters

6. Politics, Intellectual Outlook, and Reform: The T’ung-wen Kuan Controversy of 1867

7. The Confucian as Patriot and Pragmatist: Li Hung-chang’s Formative Years, 1823-1866

8. Li Hung-chang in Chihli: The Emergence of a Policy, 1870-1875

9. The Limits of Regional Power in the Late-Ch’ing Period: A Reappraisal (Summary of an article in Chinese)

10. Foreword to K. H. Kim, The Last Phase of the East Asia World Order: Korea, Japan, and the Chinese Empire 377

11. Financing a Steam-Navigation Company in China, 1861-1862

12. British-Chinese Steamship Rivalry in China, 1873-1885

13. A Chinese Entrepreneur: Tong King-sing (1832-1892)

14. Credit Facilities in China’s Early Industrialization: The Background and Implications of Hsü Jun’s Bankruptcy in 1883

15. (Co-authored with Adrian A. Bennett) Christianity in the Chinese Idiom: Young J. Allen and the Early Chiao-hui hsin-pao, 1868-1870

16. “The Youngest and the Oldest Empire”: America and China in the Late Nineteenth Century

17. Intellectuals and the Reform Movement in Late Nineteenth-Century China

18. Imperialism and the Chinese Peasants: The Background of the Boxer Uprising (a review article)

19. Chinese and Russian Traditions Juxtaposed: Parallels and Contrasts

Appendix to Chapter 19: “Russian Historical Traditions in the Perspective of Modernization and Reform” by Robert O. Crummey

20. World View and Peasant Rebellion: Reflections on Post-Mao Historiography

21. Early Christian Colleges in China

A Chronological List of Articles Reprinted in This Volume with Original Publication Data

Glossary & Index