Acknowledgements

Abbreviations used in notes

Introduction: Visions of Another Chinese Future

1. "We can change our path": The Rediscovery of Wang Fuzhi

2. "There is still greatness left in Hunan": Foundations of Revival

3. "Now the nation has a voice": Provincial Reform

4. "The souls of a lost country": Retrenchment in Japan

5. "Sharpen your knives": Revolution

6. "I tremble for the future": Reconstruction

7. "This moment of infinite dawn": Mao and the Self-Government Movement

Afterword: Hunan and China

Notes to the text

Stephen R. Platt is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.