Chinese democracy : the self-government movement in local, provincial, and national politics, 1905-1914

Contents Preface Acknowledgements 1. Integrating Chinese History and Early Modem World History 2. Statist Unity and Local Democracy in the Late Qing Empire Notes 3. Constitutional Reform and Court Interest in Self-government, 1905-1908 Notes 4. Official and Non-official Self-government Movements and the Elections of 1909 Notes 5. Provincial Assemblies and Constitutionalist Agitation to Early 1910 Notes 6. Official Centralisation and Its Nationalist Enemies to Early 1911 Notes 7. From Provincial to National Self-government during China’s North-South War of 1911-1912 Notes 8. The Polity, the Police and China’s Democratic Revolution to 1914 Notes 9. Differentiating Democracy in Twentieth-century China and Asia Notes