Alan Baumler is Professor of History and Asian Studies Coordinator at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, USA. He is the author of Worse Than Floods and Wild Beasts: The Chinese and Opium Under the Republic and co-editor of The Chinese Historical Review.

Introduction 1. Japanese Goals, Chinese Realities at the Grassroots: The Japanese Occupation in Northern Zhejiang, 1937-1942 2. The Rise of Chinese Communist Military-Fiscal Party-State in Shandong Province, 1937-1945 3. New China Daily: Social Change and the Class Project in Wartime Nationalist China 4. Liberation: A View from the Southwest 5. The Search for a Socialist Everyday: The Urban Communes 6. Changes in the rural land system and power structure in the countryside 7. "There Is No Crisis and It Is Going to Go Away Soon, Anyhow" - Propaganda, Denialism and Revisionism in Debating the Great Leap Forward Famine 8. Gospel Light or Imperialist Poison? Controversies of the Christian Community in China, 1922-1955 9. A (Wo)men's Revolution?: Small Feet, Large Hands, and Visions of Womanhood in China's long 20th Century 10. The afterlife of Sun Yat-sen during the Republic (1925-1949) 11. The New Life Movement and National Sacrifice 12. Learning the New Culture: Rural Literacy Education in Shanxi in the 1930s and 1940s 13. Making Taiwan Chinese, 1945-1960 14. Chinese Professions, The Nation, and Revolution, 1895-1965 15. Roles of the Beautiful Nation in the Making of a Revolutionary Middle Kingdom 16. Closest Model, Rival, and Fateful Enemy: China's Political Economy, Law, and Japan 17. Ambiguous Paradigms: The Russian Model and the Chinese Revolution 18. All Rivers Flow into the Sea: The Making of China's Most Cosmopolitan City 19. Public Space and Public Life: Transformation of Urban China, 1900-2000 20. The Nationalization of the Hardship of Travel in China, 1895-1949: Progress, Hygiene and National Concern 21. Chinese Revolutions and the Ebb and Flow of Revolutionary Historiography