CHINA AND THE INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM,1840-1949 -- Contents -- PREFACE: The "Century of Humiliation"as a Retrospective Icon -- Transliteration and Word Order -- 1. International Relations,History, and "Images" -- THE INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM AND CHINA:A CHALLENGE OF TOPIC AND DISCIPLINARITY -- CULTURE AND IDENTITY -- RACE -- IMAGES -- SOURCES -- 2. Humiliations Establishedin the First and Second Opium Wars -- COLLIDING IMAGES -- THE FIRST OPIUM WAR (1840-1842) -- HUMILIATION AND THE UNEQUAL TREATIES SYSTEM -- CHINESE RESPONSES TO DEFEAT -- CHINESE EMIGRATION BECOMESAN INTERNATIONAL ISSUE -- THE SECOND OPIUM WAR (1857-1860) -- GEOCULTURAL POLITICS AND THE BURNING OF THE SUMMER PALACE -- RUSSIA'S DRIVE TO THE AMUR BASIN AND VLADIVOSTOK -- 3. Humiliations Maintained -- EFFECTS AND AFTERMATH OF THE SECOND OPIUM WAR -- "SELF-STRENGTHENING" ADVOCATES IN CHINA -- CHINESE IMMIGRATION ISSUES IN THEUNITED STATES AND THE "HEATHEN CHINEE" -- THE "CHINESE THREAT" IN AUSTRALASIA -- ONGOING AND NEW THREATS TO CHINA IN ASIA -- POLITICAL RESTRICTIONS IN CALIFORNIA -- CHINESE DIPLOMACY IN THE WEST -- 4. China's Attempted "Awakening" -- CHINA'S MILITARY REVIVAL -- AUSTRALASIAN INVASION SCARES AND POLITICAL DEBATES -- AMERICAN SOCIAL DARWINISMAND ANTI-IMMIGRATION POLITICS -- RUSSIAN RESPONSES TO CHINA -- AN ANGLO-CHINESE ALLIANCE? -- THE "MARCH OF THE MONGOL"AND "THE CHINESE QUESTION" -- CHINESE VOICES ON "CHINA'S AWAKENING" -- 5. China's Further Humiliations -- THE SINO-JAPANESE WAR OF 1894-1895 -- EASTERN PERSPECTIVES ON THE SINO-JAPANESE WAR -- WESTERN PERSPECTIVES ON THE SINO-JAPANESE WAR -- REFORMIST ANALYSIS AND IMPERIAL LEADERSHIP -- "SLICED LIKE A WATER-MELON" -- THE BOXER REVOLT -- AUTUMNAL PERSPECTIVES ON THE BOXER REVOLT -- CHINESE PERSPECTIVES -- REEMERGENCE OF A CHINA THREAT PERCEPTION -- RUSSIAN GEOPOLITICS -- XINZHENG REFORMS AND CHINESE NATIONALISM.

THE RUSSO-JAPANESE WARAND A SINO-JAPANESE AXIS -- IMMIGRATION AND TRADE FURORSACROSS THE PACIFIC -- FALL OF THE QING -- 6. China Adrift in a Brave New World -- IMAGES OF A NEW REPUBLIC, A NEW CHINA -- YELLOW PERIL INCARNATIONS(FU MANCHU AND OTHERS) -- CHINA AND "WORLD" WAR I -- DIPLOMATIC BETRAYALS ANDTHE MAY FOURTH MOVEMENT -- RACE AND CULTURE, PAN-ASIANISM,AND CHINESE NATIONALISM -- THE SOVIET FACTOR -- UNEQUAL TREATIES REVISION ANDNATIONALIST AGITATION-RENEWAL -- NATIONAL REUNIFICATION AND UNCERTAINTIES -- 7. Wartime Humiliations from Japan and the West -- THE MANCHURIAN AFFAIR AND AFTERMATH -- THE SECOND SINO-JAPANESE WAR (1937-1945) -- YELLOW-RED PERILS? -- IMMIGRATION AND EXTRATERRITORIALITY,STRATEGIC REVISIONS -- PERCEPTIONS OF CHINA'S STATUSAS A GREAT POWER AND MILITARY ALLY -- WESTERN COMMENTS ON CHINA'S POSTWAR ROLE -- RACE, POPULATION, AND IMMIGRATIONRESURFACE ACROSS THE PACIFIC -- WHOSE CHINA? -- 8. Legacies -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.