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Japanese goals, Chinese realities at the grassroots : the Japanese Occupation in northern Zhejiang, 1937-42 / R. Keith Schoppa -- The rise of the Chinese communist military-fiscal party-state in Shandong Province, 1937-45 / Sherman Xiaogang Lai -- New China Daily : social change and the class project in wartime Nationalist China / Joshua H. Howard -- Liberation : a view from the Southwest / Kristin Stapleton -- The search for a Socialist everyday : the urban communes / Fabio Lanza -- Changes in the rural land system and power structures in the countryside / Liu Yigao -- "There is no crisis and it is going to go away soon, anyhow" : propaganda, denialism and revisionism in debating the Great Leap Forward famine / Lauri Paltemaa -- Gospel light or imperialist poison? Controversies of the Christian community in China, 1922-55 / Melissa Wei-Tsing Inouye -- A (wo)men's revolution? Small feet, large hands and visions of womanhood in China's long twentieth century / Barbara Mittler -- The afterlife of Sun Yat-sen during the Republic (1925-49) / Xavier Paulès -- The New Life Movement and national sacrifice / Maggie Clinton -- Learning the new culture : rural literacy education in Shanxi in the 1930s and 1940s / Di Luo -- Making Taiwan Chinese, 1945-60 / Tehyun Ma -- Chinese professions, the nation and revolution, 1895-1965 / Charles W. Hayford -- Roles of the beautiful nation in the making of a revolutionary Middle Kingdom / Xu Guoqi -- Closest model, rival and fateful enemy : China's political economy, law and Japan / Joyman Lee -- Ambiguous paradigms : the Russian model and the Chinese Revolution / James Z. Gao -- All rivers flow into the sea : the making of China's most cosmopolitan city / Hanchao Lu -- Public space and public life : transformation of urban China, 1900-2000 / Wang Di -- The nationalization of the hardship of travel in China, 1895-1949 : progress, hygiene and national concern / António Barrento -- Chinese revolutions and the ebb and flow of revolutionary historiography / Q. Edward Wang.

Intro -- The Chinese and Opium under the Republic -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Worse Than Floods and Wild Beasts: Opium, Politics, and Society in Republican China -- 1. Establishing a Meaning for Opium -- 2. The Narrative of Addiction in China and the West -- 3. The International Campaign against Opium -- 4. Warlords and Opium -- 5. Opium, the Nation, and the Revolution -- 6. Hankou, the Anti-Opium Inspectorate, and Control of the Opium Trade -- 7.Purifying the People and Defending the State: The Six Year Plan to Eliminate Opium -- 8. Defining Drugs -- 9. War, Poppies, and the Completion of the Plan -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.

Japanese air raids and the Chinese response to them have been studied primarily in the context of Chongqing, the wartime capital, but air defense was a nationwide project, which is best understood in relation to interwar ideas about airmindedness. The combination of pre-war attempts to spread foreign ideas about air defense with the experience of Japanese attacks had a great impact on mass mobilization. The Nationalist government used successful air defense in domestic propaganda as an example of the success of the Chinese war effort and in international propaganda as proof of both the sufferings of the Chinese people under Japanese imperialism and China's viability as a modern military ally.