Frederic E. Wakeman, Jr. (1937-2006) was Professor of Chinese History and Haas Professor of Asian Studies in the Department of History at the University of California, Berkeley. Among his many books is The Great Enterprise: The Manchu Reconstruction of Imperial Order in Seventeenth-Century China (UC Press).

• Preface FredericWakeman's Oeuvre in the Framework of World, and Comparative History S.N. Eisenstadt Navigating History: Voyages part one * China In the Context ofWorld History 1. China and the Seventeenth-Century World Crisis 2. The Chinese Mirror: Universal Values and Particular Societies part two * The Ming-Qing Period 3. The Shun Interregnum of 1644 4. Romantics, Stoics, and Martyrs in Seventeenth-Century China 5. The Price of Autonomy: Intellectuals in Ming and Qing Politics 6. Localism and Loyalism during the Qing Conquest of Jiangnan: The Tragedy of Jiangyin part three * Shanghai in the Republic Period 7. Licensing Leisure: The Chinese Nationalists' Attempt to Regulate Shanghai, 1927--1949 8. Shanghai Smuggling part four * Historiography of Chinese History 9. The Use and Abuse of Ideology in the Study of Contemporary China 10. Chinese Archives and American Scholarship on Modern Chinese History part five * Modernity and State 11. Civil Society in Late Imperial and Modern China 12. Drury's Occupation of Macao and China's Response to Early Modern Imperialism 13. Models of Historical Change: The Chinese State and Society, 1938--1989 Reflection: Telling Chinese History Appendix: Books by Frederic E.Wakeman Jr. Acknowledgments Index

"The collection is well worth reading:it stands as testimony to Wakeman's skill." Journal Of World History "This is a book that belongs in every historian's library." The Historian

Frederic E. Wakeman, Jr. (1937-2006) was Professor of Chinese History and Haas Professor of Asian Studies in the Department of History at the University of California, Berkeley. Among his many books is The Great Enterprise: The Manchu Reconstruction of Imperial Order in Seventeenth-Century China (UC Press).

• Preface FredericWakeman's Oeuvre in the Framework of World, and Comparative History S.N. Eisenstadt Navigating History: Voyages part one * China In the Context ofWorld History 1. China and the Seventeenth-Century World Crisis 2. The Chinese Mirror: Universal Values and Particular Societies part two * The Ming-Qing Period 3. The Shun Interregnum of 1644 4. Romantics, Stoics, and Martyrs in Seventeenth-Century China 5. The Price of Autonomy: Intellectuals in Ming and Qing Politics 6. Localism and Loyalism during the Qing Conquest of Jiangnan: The Tragedy of Jiangyin part three * Shanghai in the Republic Period 7. Licensing Leisure: The Chinese Nationalists' Attempt to Regulate Shanghai, 1927--1949 8. Shanghai Smuggling part four * Historiography of Chinese History 9. The Use and Abuse of Ideology in the Study of Contemporary China 10. Chinese Archives and American Scholarship on Modern Chinese History part five * Modernity and State 11. Civil Society in Late Imperial and Modern China 12. Drury's Occupation of Macao and China's Response to Early Modern Imperialism 13. Models of Historical Change: The Chinese State and Society, 1938--1989 Reflection: Telling Chinese History Appendix: Books by Frederic E.Wakeman Jr. Acknowledgments Index

"The collection is well worth reading:it stands as testimony to Wakeman's skill." Journal Of World History "This is a book that belongs in every historian's library." The Historian

Frederic E. Wakeman, Jr. (1937-2006) was Professor of Chinese History and Haas Professor of Asian Studies in the Department of History at the University of California, Berkeley. Among his many books is The Great Enterprise: The Manchu Reconstruction of Imperial Order in Seventeenth-Century China (UC Press).

• Preface FredericWakeman's Oeuvre in the Framework of World, and Comparative History S.N. Eisenstadt Navigating History: Voyages part one * China In the Context ofWorld History 1. China and the Seventeenth-Century World Crisis 2. The Chinese Mirror: Universal Values and Particular Societies part two * The Ming-Qing Period 3. The Shun Interregnum of 1644 4. Romantics, Stoics, and Martyrs in Seventeenth-Century China 5. The Price of Autonomy: Intellectuals in Ming and Qing Politics 6. Localism and Loyalism during the Qing Conquest of Jiangnan: The Tragedy of Jiangyin part three * Shanghai in the Republic Period 7. Licensing Leisure: The Chinese Nationalists' Attempt to Regulate Shanghai, 1927--1949 8. Shanghai Smuggling part four * Historiography of Chinese History 9. The Use and Abuse of Ideology in the Study of Contemporary China 10. Chinese Archives and American Scholarship on Modern Chinese History part five * Modernity and State 11. Civil Society in Late Imperial and Modern China 12. Drury's Occupation of Macao and China's Response to Early Modern Imperialism 13. Models of Historical Change: The Chinese State and Society, 1938--1989 Reflection: Telling Chinese History Appendix: Books by Frederic E.Wakeman Jr. Acknowledgments Index

"The collection is well worth reading:it stands as testimony to Wakeman's skill." Journal Of World History "This is a book that belongs in every historian's library." The Historian