Hanchao Lu , professor of Asian history at the Georgia Institute of Technology, is the author of Beyond the Neon Lights: Everyday Shanghai in the Early Twentieth Century and Street Criers: A Cultural History of Chinese Beggars.

Acknowledgments
Map of China in 1911
Map of Wuhan during the 1911 Revolution
Introduction
1. On the Eve of the Revolution
2. The Wuchang Uprising
3. The Politics of Chaos
4. A Society in Transition
5. Stafford in China
Timeline of Chinese History
A Chronology of the 1911 Revolution
Glossary
Further Readings
Index

Hanchao Lu , professor of Asian history at the Georgia Institute of Technology, is the author of Beyond the Neon Lights: Everyday Shanghai in the Early Twentieth Century and Street Criers: A Cultural History of Chinese Beggars.