Stephen R. MacKinnon is Professor of History at Arizona State University. He is author of Power and Politics in Late Imperial China: Yuan Shi-Kai in Beijing and Tianhun, 1901-1908, and coauthor of China Reporting: An Oral History of American Journalism in the 1930s and 1940s and Agnes Smedley: The Life and Times of an American Radical, all published by UC Press. He is the editor, with Diana Lary and Ezra Vogel, of China at War: Regions of China, 1937-45, among other books.

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• List of Illustrations List of Tables Acknowledgments Prologue Chapter 1. Wuhan before the War Chapter 2. Defending Central China, 1938: Military Leadership and Strategy Chapter 3. The Battle for Xuzhou and the Defense of Wuhan Chapter 4. Wuhan's Refugee Crisis Chapter 5. Culture and the Press Chapter 6. Mobilizing Youth Chapter 7. Romantic Hankou: The International Dimension Conclusion Appendix: Wartime Wuhan: A Chronology Notes Glossary