Ⅰ．INTRODUCTION 1
Zhang Yuanji's place in Chinese History． 1
PREFACE 3
CONTENTS 3
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 5
ABBREVIATIONS 8
Zhang's early life in Guandgong and Zhejiang 11
Ⅱ． THE BUDDING REFORMER 15
1892——1898 Zhang Yuanji as a young metropolitan official in Beijing 15
Ⅲ．ZHANG YUANJI AND THE HUNDRED DAYS REFORM 36
Ⅳ．GENTRY REFORMER AND CONSTITUTIONALIST Zhang Yuanji's Activities 1898—1911 74
As shareholder and then manager and head of the Compilation and Translation Centre 109
Ⅵ．AN OLD SCHOLAR IN A NEW ERA 1912 to the May Fourth Period 151
Ⅶ．ZHANG YUANJI AS COMMERCIAL PRESS SUPERVISOR The 1920s 192
Ⅷ．THE TURBULENT YEARS 1926—1937 217
Ⅸ．DURING THE WAR YEARS 1937—1945 262
Ⅹ．CIVIL WAR，THEN THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC 285
1945—1959 285
CONCLUSION 318
BIBLIOGRAPHY 328
GLOSSARY 341
INDEX 346
Ⅴ．ZHANG YUANJI'S FIRST DECADE WITH THE COMMER-CIAL PRESS 1901— 1911