Edward J. M. Rhoads is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of China's Republican Revolution: The Case of Kwangtung, 1895-1913.Winner of the Joseph Levenson Book Prize for Modern China, sponsored by The China and Inner Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Separate and Unequal
2. Cixi and the "Peculiar Institution"
3. Zaifeng and the "Manchu Ascendency"
4. The 1911 Revolution
5. Court and Manchus after 1911
Conclusion
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Index