China Reconstructs includes ten articles that investigate the reconstruction of modern China and provide different dimensions to the vibrant and multifaceted history of the country. The book discusses how prominent individuals, political parties, and ordinary people alike looked for ways to "reconstruct China" in a period of great political upheavals.

Chapter 1 Foreword Chapter 2 Preface Chapter 3 Acknowledgments Chapter 4 Introduction Chapter 5 The Response of the Elite: Dao, Science and Yan Fu; The Reception of Yan Fu in Twentieth-Century China; Legitimation of Sun Yat-senism; Wang Jingwei and the 1911 Revolution Chapter 6 Strategies of the Political Parties: Guomindang's Refugee Relief Efforts, 1937-1945; Rethinking Guomindang National Minority Policy and the Case of Inner Mongolia; Revolutionaries in Henan Chapter 7 The Efforts of Society in Reconstructing History: The Study of Treaty Ports in China since 1949; Chinese Bankers in the Crossfire, 1937-1945; Maryknoll Sisters in Twentieth-Century Hong Kong Chapter 8 About the Contributors Chapter 9 Index

Edited by Cindy Yik-yi Chu and Ricardo K.S. Mak - Contributions by Ko-wu Huang; Philip Yuen-sang Leung; Wang Ke-wen; Ka-che Yip; James P. Leibold; Odoric Y.K. Wou; Chau Chi Fung and Parks M. Coble