Power and Identity in the Chinese World Order: Festschrift in Honour of Professor Wang Gungwu

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Contents Acknowledgements i x Contributors x i Introduction 1 Billy K. L . So Prologue Wang Gungwu : Th e Historia n i n His Times 1 1 Philip A. Kuhn Part I . I n Searc h o f Power : Powe r Restructurin g i n 3 3 Modern Chin a 1. Th e Fujianes e Revolutionaries , 1895—191 1 3 5 Lee Kam-keung 2. Nation , Territor y an d Frontier : Chian g Kai-shek's Realism 6 5 in Actio n So Wai-chor 3. Th e Kuomintan g Peac e Missio n o n th e Eve o f the 9 1 Communist Takeove r Huang Jianli 4. Th e Ne w Positionin g o f Hong Kon g after Reunificatio n 12 1 with Mainlan d Chin a Jane Lee vi Contents Part II . I n Searc h o f Power : Stat e Powe r vs . Econom y 13 9 and Societ y i n Moder n Chin a 5. A Biographica l Sketc h o f Liu Xuexun : Th e Controversia l 14 1 and Mysteriou s Guangdon g Gamblin g Farmer , Mandarin-Capitalist an d Secre t Agen t i n Moder n Chin a Ho Hon-wai 6. Illusion s o f Autonomy? Journalism, Commerc e an d th e 17 7 State i n Republica n Chin a Terry Narramore 7. Chines e Nationalis m an d Democrac y Durin g th e Wa r Period , 20 1 1937-1945: A Critiqu e o f th e Jiuwang-Qimeng Dichotom y Edmund S. K. Fung Part III . I n Searc h o f Chineseness : Identit y o f a Natio n 22 1 8. Negotiatin g Chines e Identit y i n Fiv e Dynastie s Narratives : 22 3 From th e Old History t o th e New History Billy K. L. So 9. Treaties , Politic s an d th e Limit s o f Loca l Diplomac y i n 23 9 Fuzhou i n th e Earl y 1850 s Ng Chin-keong 10. O n Bein g Chines e 26 9 Adrian Chan Part IV . I n Searc h o f Chineseness : Communit y an d Sel f 28 9 11. Th e Returne d Oversea s Chines e Communit y i n Hon g 29 1 Kong: Som e Observation s James Chin 12. Writin g th e Chines e Canadia n Diaspora : Multiculturalis m 31 1 and Confucia n Value s Jennifer W.Jay Contents vi i 13. Langxian' s 'Sieg e a t Yangzhou' : A Post-Min g Readin g 33 1 Antonia Finnane 14. Th e Slav e Wh o Woul d B e Equal : Th e Significanc e o f 35 3 Liang Qichao' s Australia n Writing s John Fitzgerald Epilogue Wang Gungwu : A n Ora l Histor y 37 5 Lee Guan-kin Appendix Selected Publication s (1957-2001 ) 41 5 by Professo r Wan g Gungw u Glossary 42 9 Index 439฀ ...