China, 1898-1912: The Xinzheng Revolution and Japan

by Douglas Reynolds and Douglas R. Reynolds

Challenging most accounts of China's revolutionary transformation at the turn of the century, Douglas Reynolds argues that the political toppling of the Qing dynasty in 1911 was less important than the Xinzheng or New System reforms of the late-Qing government itself. He then provides a detailed account of the debt those reforms owed to Japan. For the Chinese, Japan offered models for major modern institutions; training for administrators, military...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674116607
• ISBN13: 9780674116603
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 1.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.3"