Description
Book SynopsisDocuments China's 1911 Revolution through Stafford's photographic eye. This book features photographs that set in historical and cultural context through an interpretive introduction and extensive captions.
Trade Review"Historian Hanchao Lu provides basic contextual information about each image, and together they offer rich detail on Chinese life and death in the years before and after 1911 . . . [The book] provides a thought-provoking entrée to this period in Chinese history."
-- Kristin Stapleton * Journal of Asian Studies *
"The scenes Stafford recorded as he travelled between Wuhan and Shanghai are indispensable to the study of the 1911 Revolution . . ."
-- Sheila Corr * HistoryToday *
"Other people might have been walking around taking photos during the heady early days of the Revolution, but few of their photographs have surfaced and no assemblage of those photos is as comprehensive or important as Stafford's…. This is no mere coffee-table book but one that makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the 1911 revolution: a visual complement to the written record."
* Hong Kong Economic Journal *
"Offers a dramatic visual narrative of the Wuchang and Shanghai uprisings in late 1911 that is in turn framed—with portraits such as that of the empress dowager as well as a child pauper—within a panoramic presentation of the many walks of Chinese society out in the public at the beginning of the last century. . . a great addition to the undergraduate syllabus on the birth of the Chinese Republic."
* Pacific Affairs *
"Seeks to enhance our understanding of the political and social background of the Republican Revolution through a visual record of key aspects of Chinese everyday life from 1905, which saw the abolition of the civil service examinations, to 1916, which witnessed the death of the first Republican President Yuan Shikai."
* The Chinese Historical Review *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Map of China in 1911
Map of Wuhan during the 1911 Revolution
Introduction
1. On the Eve of the Revolution
2. The Wuchang Uprising
3. The Politics of Chaos
4. A Society in Transition
5. Stafford in China
Timeline of Chinese History
A Chronology of the 1911 Revolution
Glossary
Further Readings
Index
