The Making of the Modern Chinese State : 1600?1950 (Paperback)

Preface 1. Introduction Part One. The Formation of the Qing State 2. The Rise of an Early-Modern Territorial State: China in the Early to Mid-Qing Period 3. Limits to Territorial Expansion: Fiscal Constitution and War-Making under the Qing Part Two. The Transition to a Sovereign State 4. Regionalized Centralism: The Resilience and Fragility of the Late Qing State 5. Between the Frontier and the Coast: Geopolitical Strategy Reoriented 6. A Nation-State in the Making: Fiscal Expansion and the New Policies Part Three. The Making of a Unified and Centralized State 7. Centralized Regionalism: The Rise of Regional Fiscal-Military States 8. In Search of National Unity: Frontier Rebuilding under the Republic 9. The Fate of Semi-Centralism: The Nationalist State Succeeded and Failed 10. Total Centralism at Work: The Confluence of Breakthroughs in State-Making 11. Conclusion List of Characters References