"Proceedings of a workshop held under the auspices of the East Asian Research Center of Harvard University July 7-18, 1975."

Includes index.

Preliminary Material / Paul A. Cohen and John E. Schrecker -- Opening Remarks / John K. Fairbank -- Opening Remarks / John E. Schrecker -- The Variety of Political Reforms in Chinese History: A Simplified Typology / James T.C. Liu -- Comment / Hoyt Tillman -- Discussion / Paul A. Cohen and John E. Schrecker -- Definitions of Community by Ch'i Chi-kuang and Lü k'un / Joanna F. Handlin -- Three Images of the Cultural Hero in the Thought of Kung Tzu-chen / Judith Whitbeck -- Discussion / Paul A. Cohen and John E. Schrecker -- Economic Aspects of Reform / Albert Feuerwerker -- Merchant Investment, Commercialization, and Social Change in the Ningpo Area / Susan Mann Jones -- Overseas Chinese Entrepreneurs as Reformers: The Case of Chang Pi-shih / Michael R. Godley -- Discussion / Paul A. Cohen and John E. Schrecker -- Imperialism, Sovereignty, and Self-Strengthening: A Reassessment of the 1870s / Saundra Sturdevant -- Reform and the Tea Industry and Trade in Late Ch'ing China: The Fukien Case / Robert P. Gardella -- Discussion / Paul A. Cohen and John E. Schrecker -- Politics, Intellectual Outlook, and Reform: The T'ung-wen kuan Controversy of 1867 / Kwang-Ching Liu -- The Image of the Empress Dowager Tz'u-hsi / Sue Fawn Chung -- Discussion / Paul A. Cohen and John E. Schrecker -- The Social Context of Reform / Marianne Bastid -- Local Reform and Its Opponents: Feng Kuei-fen's Struggle for Equality in Taxation / Frank A. Lojewski -- Discussion / Paul A. Cohen and John E. Schrecker -- The Intellectual Context of Reform / Hao Chang -- The Ideal of Universality in Late Ch'ing Reformism / Young-tsu Wong -- National Image: Missionaries and Some Conceptual Ingredients of Late Ch'ing Reform / Suzanne Wilson Barnett -- Kung as an Ethos in Late Nineteenth-Century China: The Case of Wang Hsien-ch'ien (1842-1918) / I-fan Ch'eng -- Discussion / Paul A. Cohen and John E. Schrecker -- Reflections on an Aspect of Modern China in Transition: T'an Ssu-t'ung (1865-1898) as a Reformer / Luke S.K. Kwong -- Some Western Influences on T'an Ssu-t'ung's Thought / Richard H. Shek -- Discussion / Paul A. Cohen and John E. Schrecker -- Reform at the Local and Provincial Level / James Polachek -- Gentry-Official Conflict in the Restoration Kiangsu Countryside / Jonathan Ocko -- The Formation of a Province: Reform of Frontier Administration in Sinkiang / Nailene Chou -- Local Reform Currents in Chekiang before 1900 / Mary Backus Rankin -- Chihli Academies and Other Schools in the Late Ch'ing: An Institutional Survey / Richard A. Orb -- Discussion / Paul A. Cohen and John E. Schrecker -- Women and Reform / Linda P. Shin -- Discussion / Paul A. Cohen and John E. Schrecker -- The New Coastal Reformers / Paul A. Cohen -- Wu.T'ing-fang: A Member of a Colonial Elite as Coastal Reformer / Linda P. Shin -- Foreign Policy Interests and Activities of the Treaty-Port Chinese Community / Louis T. Sigel -- Discussion / Paul A. Cohen and John E. Schrecker -- The Reform Movement of 1898 and the Ch'ing-i: Reform as Opposition / John E. Schrecker -- On the Hundred Days Reform / Huang Chang-chien -- Reform Through Study Societies in the Late Ch'ing Period, 1895-1900: The Nan hsueh-hui / Sung Wook Shin -- Chang Chih-tung after the "100 Days": 1898-1900 as a Transitional Period for Reform Constituencies / Daniel H. Bays -- Discussion / Paul A. Cohen and John E. Schrecker -- Closing Discussion / Paul A. Cohen and John E. Schrecker -- Notes / Paul A. Cohen and John E. Schrecker -- Glossary / Paul A. Cohen and John E. Schrecker.

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