Modern China: an interpretive anthology

The sense of identity: The past and future of nationalism in China, by J.R. Levenson. From The significance of the Ch'ing Period in Chinese history, by P.-T. Ho. From The persistence of tradition in Chinese foreign policy, by M. Mancall. Regionalism in nineteenth-century China, by F. Michael. The province, the nation, and the world: the problem of Chinese identity, by J.R. Levenson.

The sense of the past: From The lore of the Chinese lute: an essay in Ch'in ideology, by R.H. van Gulik. From Fantastics and eccentrics in Chinese painting, by J. Cahill. From A rejected portrait by Lo P'ing: Pictorial footnote to Waley's Yüan mei, by J. Cahill. From The life and thought of Chang Hsüeh-ch'eng, 1738-1801, by D.S. Nivison.

From The Chinese gentry: studies on their role in nineteenth-century Chinese society, by C.-L. Chang.

From revolution to restoration: the transformation of Kuomintang ideology, by M.C. Wright.

The sense of urgency: From Strangers at the gate: social disorder in South China, 1839-1861, by F. Wakeman, Jr.

The rise of land tax and the fall of dynasties in Chinese history, by W. Yü-ch'üan. The opening of China by F. Wakeman, Jr. Economic change in early modern China: an analytic framework, by J.K. Fairbank, A. Eckstein, and L.S. Yang.

The sense of the future: From Egalitarian and utopian traditions in the East, by J. Chesneaux. Modern China in transition, 1900-1950, by M.C. Wright. From Ideology and organization in Communist China, by F. Schurmann. From Confucian China and its modern fate: a trilogy, by J.R. Levenson. Marxism and the middle kingdom, by J.R. Levenson.