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Synopsis
Offering recent scholarship in Chinese historiography, this text focuses on radical, even revolutionary, changes of the period 1895-1912. The book investigates intellectual and institutional changes associated with the government's Xinzheng or New Systems reforms.
Table of Contents
Chinese investigative missions overseas, 1866-1907 /Dong Shouyi and Wang Yanjing -- Government awards to students trained abroad, 1871-1911 / Deng Shaohui --Court-sponsored reforms, 1895-1898 / Lèu Xiaobo --Military reforms, 1895-1908 / Wang Jianhua --Educational reforms, 1903-1904 / Fan Peiwei -- On late Qing economic laws and regulations, (ca. 1901-1911) /Zhu Ying -- Sichuan Province reforms under governor-general Xiliang, 1903-1907 / He Yimin --Women's movement for political participation, 1911-1912 / Zhou Yaping.