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Cover Page -- Halftitle Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: The Taipings -- Interlude: Post-Taiping "Restoration" -- Chapter 2: The Collapse of the Qing and the Republican Revolution -- Interlude: Post-revolutionary Disorder -- Chapter 3: The May Fourth Movement (1919) and Cultural Revolution -- Interlude: Uneven and Combined-China in the 1920s -- Chapter 4: Competing Revolutions in the Nanjing Decade (1927-1937) -- Interlude: The War of Resistance against Japan -- Chapter 5: The 1949 Revolution -- Interlude: The Invasion of Tibet (1959) -- Chapter 6: The Cultural Revolution -- Interlude: Assessing Mao, 1979-1989 -- Chapter 7: 1989 and Its Aftermath -- Interlude: Xinjiang 2009 -- Conclusion: 2019 -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Rebecca E. Karl interrogates the concept and practice of "the economic" as it was understood in China in the 1930s and the 1980s and 90s, showing how the use of Eurocentric philosophies, narratives, and conceptions of the economic that exist outside lived experiences fail to capture modern China's complex history

This brief essay meditates on the advent of the ideal of horizontal social relations, exemplified in the early CCP years in the political term, "comrade" (tongzhi). It takes up Qu Qiubai as exemplary of a Marxist political thinker whose commitments to horizontality/comrade relations can be illustrated through his theories of literature, translation and language. It proposes that despite Xi Jinping's recent rhetorical admonishments to re-activate "comrade" as a political term, it is the LGBTQ community's appropriation of "comrade" in contemporary China that actually holds the potential for a substantive reanimation of the utopian ideals begun a century ago. (China Q / GIGA)