The Road to War

I. The second Chinese revolution, 1917-1923

A. The May 4 Movement, 1919

Woodrow Wilson's big mouth

the Versailles Peace Conference

students and workers, May 26, 1919

the Shanghai textile mills

Japanese industries abroad

boycotts, strikes and unions

China's revolutionary leaders

B. The social revolution

Confucianism and youth

modernity and youth

women's rights

free love

alternative lifestyles

C. The intellectual revolution

ideas from the West

Darwinism and Social Darwinism

Liberalism, Pragmatism and Pacifism

Marxism-Leninism and Socialism

literary reform

Hu Shi: writing the vernacular [baihua]

Lu Xun: political satire

Ba Jin: social commentary

Ting Ling: women's issues

educational reform

Beijing University

separation of government and education

academic freedom

respect for youth

Chen Duxui: New Youth

intellectual forum beyond academe

politics beyond the bureaucracy

D. The other May Fourthers

the warlords

the Shanghai capitalists

E. Beyond May 4

China's new leaders

the Nationalists and the Communists

Chiang Kai-shek [Jiang Jieshi]

the Northern Expedition, 1926-1928

the "bloc within"

the Shanghai massacre, 1927

the Jiangxi Soviet, 1927-1934

the search for a Chinese proletariat

Mao Zedong and Zhu De

campaigns of annihilation

the Long March

the caves of Yenan

the Xian Incident, Dec. 1936

the second Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945

the Manchurian Incident, 1933

Feb. 26, 1936

II. The Rising Sun

A. Taisho democracy

the Meiji constitution

death of the genro

Hara Kei, 1918-1920

universal male suffrage, 1924

the peace preservation law, 1924

the Kempeitai

B. The social revolution

gimburu

mobo and moga

dating, free love and other scandals

C. The dissidents

anarchism and the 1923 earthquake

communism, workers and intellectuals

feminism: suffrage, equal pay, and birth control

D. Nostalgia and the search for the good old days

the way we never were

the rural-urban split

economic and class differences

the young officers

V.D., unwed motherhood and drugs

E. The road to China

the Army-Navy split

the London Naval Conference, 1930

Manchukuo, 1933

Gen. Tojo and China

the young officers and Russia

the Feb. 26 Incident, 1926

the role of Kita Ikki

in the name of the emperor

government by assassination