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Includes bibliographical references and index -- "Books by Frederic E. Wakeman Jr.": p. 431

Preface Lea H. Wakeman

Frederic Wakeman's oeuvre in the framework of world and comparative history S.N. Eisenstadt

Navigating history: voyages ; China in the context of world history ; China and the seventeenth-century world crisis ; The Chinese mirror : universal values and particular societies ; The Ming-Qing period ; The Shun interregnum of 1644 ; Romantics, stoics, and martyrs in seventeenth-century China ; The price of autonomy : intellectuals in Ming and Qing politics ; Localism and loyalism during the Qing conquest of Jiangnan : the tragedy of Jiangyin ; Shanghai in the Republic period ; Licensing leisure : the Chinese Nationalists' attempt to regulate Shanghai, 1927-1949 ; Shanghai smuggling ; The historiography of Chinese history ; The use and abuse of ideology in the study of contemporary China ; Chinese archives and American scholarship on modern Chinese history ; Modernity and state ; Civil society in late imperial and modern China ; Drury's occupation of Macao and China's response to early modern imperialism ; Models of historical change : the Chinese state and society, 1938-1989 ; Reflection : telling Chinese history.