Acknowledgements

Contributors

Introduction

Billy K.L. So

Prologue

Wang Gungwu: The Historian in His Times

Philip A. Kuhn

Part I. In Search of Power: Power Restructuring in Modern China

1. The Fujianese Revolutionaries, 1895-1911

Lee Kam-keung

2. Nation, Territory and Frontier: Chiang Kai-shek's Realismin Action

So Wai-chor

3. The Kuomintang Peace Mission on the Eve of the Communist Takeover

Huang Jianli

4. The New Positioning of Hong Kong after Reunification with Mainland China

Jane Lee

Part II. In Search of Power: State Power vs. Economy and Society in Modern China

5. A Biographical Sketch of Liu Xuexun: The Controversial and Mysterious Guangdong Gambling Farmer, Mandarin-Capitalist and Secret Agent in Modern China

Ho Hon-wai

6. Illusions of Autonomy? Journalism, Commerce and the State in Republican China

Terry Narramore

7. Chinese Nationalism and Democracy During the War Period, 1937-1945: A Critique of the Jiuwang-Qimeng Dichotomy

Edmund S.K. Fung

Part III. In Search of Chineseness: Identity of a Nation

8. Negotiating Chinese Identity in Five Dynasties Narratives: From the Old History to the New History

Billy K.L. So

9. Treaties, Politics and the Limits of Local Diplomacy in Fuzhou in the Early 1850's

Ng Chin-keong

10. On Being Chinese

Adrian Chan

Part IV. In Search of Chineseness: Community and Self

11. The Returned Overseas Chinese Community in Hong Kong: Some Observations

James Chin

12. Writing the Chinese Canadian Diaspora: Multiculturalism and Confucian Values

Jennifer W. Jay

11. Langxian's 'Siege at Yangzhou': A Post-Ming Reading

Antonia Finnane

14. The Slave Who Would Be Equal: The Significance of Liane Qichao's Australian Writings

John Fitzgerald

Epilogue

Wang Gungwu: An Oral History

Lee Guan-kin

Appendix

Selected Publications (1957-2001)

by Professor Wang Gungwu

Glossary

Index