Part 1: From the Heights to the Depths: Challenges to Traditional Chinese Identities, 1780-1901
3. The Opium War and the Treaty System: Challenges to Chinese Identity
4. An Age of Rebellion: Defiance of and Commitments to Traditional Chinese Identities
5. The Power of Traditional Cultural Identity: Chinese Reactions to Continuing Threats
6. The Devastating Nineties: Destroying Traditional Identities
Part 2: "No Checking the Tides of Change": Reconstructing Social, Cultural, and Political Identity, 1901-1928
7. Revolutionaries: Manchu and Anti- Manchu
8. Selecting Identities: The Early Republic
9. Constructing a New Cultural Identity: The May Fourth Movement
10. Drawing the Sword of Opposition: Identity Increasingly Politicized
Part 3: Revolution and Identity: Social Revolution and the Power of Tradition, 1928-1960
11. Revolution in Retreat: The Nanjing Decade
12. Revolution Reborn: The Communists in the 1930s
13. A Rising Clash of National Identities: China and Japan, The 1920s and the 1930s
14. The Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945
15. Toward Daybreak: Struggling for China's Identity, 1945-1949
Part 4: From Politics in Command: to the Glory of Getting Rich: Contemporary Change and Identity, 1961-2009
18. Death Dance: The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution
19. Economics in Command: The End of Communism and the Flourishing of "Market Socialism"
20. "One World, One Dream": China's New World
21. A Question of Identity: The Republic of China on Taiwan Since the 1970s
The Opium War and the treaty system : challenges to Chinese identity
An age of rebellion : defiance of and commitments to traditional Chinese identities
The power of traditional cultural identity : Chinese reactions to continuing threats
The devastating nineties : destroying traditional identities
The revolutionary Manchus
Selecting identities : the early Republic
Constructing a new cultural identity : the May Fourth Movement
Drawing the sword of opposition : identity increasingly politicized
Revolution in retreat : the Nanjing Decade
Revolution reborn : the Communists in the 1930s
A rising clash of national identities : China and Japan, the 1920s and 1930s
The Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945
Toward daybreak : struggling for China's identity, 1945-1949
Death dance : the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution
The dawn of a new century
A question of identity : the Republic of China on Taiwan since the 1970s.
