The Modern History of China

Introdution (Roman Sławiński)
Chapter 1. China under Manchu rule. How foreign powers "forced China's gates open" (Wiesław Olszewski)
Chapter 2. Attempts at modernising Chinese economy under the Manchus advantages and disadvantages of modernisation under Western influence (Karin Tomala)
Chapter 3. Secret Societies and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom (Roman Sławiński)
Chapter 4. The settlement and loss of Taiwan (Roman Sławiński)
Chapter 5. China's relations with foreign powers from the end of the 19th century to the 1930s (Teresa Halik)
Chapter 6. The Boxer Rebellion (1898-1901) (Teresa Halik)
Chapter 7. Reformers and revolutionaries (Teresa Halik)
Chapter 8. Yuan Shikai and the Warlords' rule - the Northern Expedition and the country's unification (Roman Sławiński)
Chapter 9. The Japanese invasion of China and the establishment of Manchukuo (Wiesław Olszewski)
Chapter 10. The Communist movement in China (1921-1936) (Wiesław Olszewski)
Chapter 11. Xinjiang: the Chinese "new dominion". Political situation in the 1930s (Jerzy Zdanowski) (English translation by the author)
Chapter 12. The Eight-Year War of Resistance of the Chinese government and Communist forces against Japanese troops (Ch'ao-jan Wang)
Chapter 13. The Liberated Areas as a prototype of the PRC. The inevitable test of strength between the Kuomintang and the CCP (Wiesław Olszewski)
Chapter 14. Taiwan under Japanese rule and its restoration to China (Guangfu) (Roman Sławiński)
Chapter 15. Economy during the Kuomintang Rule (1927-1949) (Vitaly Kozyrev)
Chapter 16. The Kuomintang and the Communist Party of China - negotiations and strife (Teresa Halik)
Chapter 17.   Studies in modern Chinese history in the 20th century (Zhang Haipeng)
Chapter 18.  Sun Yat-sen, Huang Xing and the Xinhai Revolution (Zhang Haipeng)
Chapter 19. Controversial issues among researchers of modern Chinese history (Zhang Haipeng)
Chapter 20.  Studies of modern Chinese history in Taiwan (Li Chang)
Chapter 21.  Chinese historiography of the 20th century: Research on Sinkiang
(Xinjiang) (Roman Slawiński; English translation by Nina Heyn)
Chapter 22.  History of Modern Chinese Literature (Lidia Kasarello)
Chronology of the most significant events in modern Chinese history (Roman Sławiński)
Capsules - Roman Sławiński:
1. The legacy of Li Hongzhang.
2. The Polish diaspora in China
3. The Washington Conference
4. China's casualties during the Anti-Japanese War
5. Changes in the administrative divisions of the Republic of China from 1912 to 1947
6. The thought of Mao Zedong and its fate
7. Museums, libraries, bookstores, and other institutions connected
with the modern history of China
Bibliography
Index
About the Authors
List of maps
List of illustrations
List of tables

This is the first modern history of China written in Eastern Europe. The text was written in concert with two Taiwanese historians. One of them presents Taiwanese research on modern Chinese history, while the other shows research from the Taiwanese point of view of the Sino Japanese War between 1937-1945, "The 8-Year War of Resistance"
Prof. Yung-fa Chen, Ph.D.
Director of the Institute of Modern History
Academia Sinica

This book is especially important in our times, when a global world culture is taking shape. It is a first-class introduction to both the contemporary and recent history of one of the world's greatest powers, which has enormous human and natural resources, and a magnificent, ancient heritage and civilization. This book, written sine ira et studio, offers its readers an excellent outlook on issues of fundamental significance.
Prof. Henryk Samsonowicz, Ph.D. Chairman of the Social Sciences Department, Polish Academy of Science