I. Introduction: Characteristics of "modern" nationalisms
 

a. Shift in ways of identifying oneself.
 

b. Ethnicity and/or racial identity and self-identity.
 

c. Integrativeness.
 

d. Autonomy/independence in defining "national interests."

e. "Nation above all" ideology.

The question of historical irony in development of "nation" and "nationalism" in the modern world.
 

II. Nationalist Revolution(s): Nationalism and Revolution.
 

III. The Shaping of Early Chinese "National Movement":
 

a. The construction of a "national identity" : Liang Qichao and the Xinmin.

b. Chinese nationalism in the context of development of nationalisms elsewhere.
 

IV. The "First Nationalist Revolution."
 

a. Sun Yat-sen and the nationalist platform of the 1911 revolution.

b. Failures of the 1911 Revolution:

1. Weakness of the revolutionary movement.

2. Lack of military strength.

3. Absence of a grass-root movement.

4. Absence of a consolidated political party.

5. Absence of a "revolutionary culture" and the social means to generate such a culture.

6.  Non-recognition by foreign powers.

V. The Warlord Interregnum

How did the Warlord system measure up to the interests of "nationalism" as previously defined?
 

VI. Rebuilding the Nationalist Revolutions:
 

* Party

* Military

*Cultural and Intellectual Milieu
 

Assessing the "Second Phase" of the Nationalist Revolutionary Movement (from the perspective of the 1930s):
 

:Comparison with the "defining characteristics."

:Comparison with the Warlord system.