Title:   From Empire to Republic: China in the Early 20th Century

Speaker:   Dr. Howard Spendelow

Topic/Issues:  

1. The "Scramble for Concessions" ("carving up the melon") and top-down reform
2. Reactionary backlash and the Boxers
3. Launching the revolutionary/republic movement
4. Reforms of the early 20th century
5. End of the Qing; end of the imperial system
6. Presidency of Yuan Shikai
7. Legacy of the " bourgeois revolution"

Resources:

1. China's Revolutionary Century, part 2
2. China's Revolutionary Century, part 3

Readings:

1. Cohen, Paul A. History in Three Keys: The Boxers as Event, Experience, and Myth (Columbia UP, 1997)
2. Klein, Thoralf.  "The Boxer War - The Boxer Uprising"; Online Encyclopedia of Mass Violence
3. Gordon, David B.  Sun Yatsen:  Seeking a Newer China (Prentice Hall, 2010)
4. Young, Earnest P.  The Presidency of Yuan Shih-k'ai: Liberalism and Dictatorship in Early Republican China (Michigan Studies on China, 1977)

Goals:

1. [tbd]