The Chinese Hsinhai Revolution

The Chinese Hsinhai Revolution explores and explains for the first time the important role of G. E. Morrison in great power diplomacy in China from the end of the Russo-Japanese War to the overthrow of the Qing Dynasty. The work is based on a wide range of multinational scholarly sources and in order to develop the context in which Morrison carried out his personal diplomacy and to delineate the many-sided story into which Morrison has to be placed, Woodhouse has in addition to mining the very rich Morrison collection, drawn upon British, Japanese and American personal and official materials.

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Eiko Woodhouse gained a PhD at the University of Sydney.

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Illustrations Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction Chapter 1: International Relations in China, 1907-1905 Chapter 2: The Outbreak of the Revolution Chapter 3: Morrison and Yuan Shih-Kai Chapter 4: The Sino-Anglo-Japanese Diplomacy Chapter 5: Morrison's Personal Diplomacy, 1911-12 Chapter 6: The Effect of Morrison's Work Chapter 7: China After the Hsinhai Revolution Summary/Conclusion Bibliography