Chinese Local Elites and Patterns of Dominance / edited by Joseph W. Esherick and Mary Backus Rankin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Esherick, Joseph, editor.

Rankin, Mary Backus, editor.

Series:

Studies on China ; Volume 11.

Studies on China Series ; Volume 11

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Elite (Social sciences)--China--Congresses.

Elite (Social sciences).

China--Social conditions--Congresses.

China.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (470 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, California : University of California Press, [1990]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This important volume affords a panoramic view of local elites during the dramatic changes of late imperial and Republic China. Eleven specialists present fresh, detailed studies of subjects ranging from cultivated upper gentry to twentieth-century militarists, from wealthy urban merchants to village leaders. In the introduction and conclusion the editors reassess the pioneering gentry studies of the 1960s, draw comparisons to elites in Europe, and suggest new ways of looking at the top people in Chinese local social systems. Chinese Local Elites and Patterns of Dominance lays the foundation for future discussions of Chinese elites and provides a solid introduction for non-specialists. Essays are by Stephen C. Averill, Lenore Barkan, Lynda S. Bell, Timothy Brook, Prasenjit Duara, Edward A. McCord, William T. Rowe, Keith Schoppa, David Strand, Rubie S. Watson, and Madeleine Zelin.This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1990.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

LIST OF TABLES

LIST OF ILLUSTRATION

PREFACE

CONTRIBUTORS

INTRODUCTION

PART ONE: Late Imperial Elites

ONE Family Continuity and Cultural Hegemony: The Gentry ofNingbo, 1368-1911

TWO Success Stories: Lineage and Elite Status in Hanyang County, Hubei, c. 1368-1949

THREE The Rise and Fall of the Fu-Rong Salt-Yard Elite: Merchant Dominance in Late Qing China

PART TWO Local Elites in Transition

FOUR From Comprador to County Magnate: Bourgeois Practice in the Wuxi County Silk Industry

FIVE Power, Legitimacy, and Symbol: Local Elites and the Jute Creek Embankment Case

SIX Local Military Power and Elite Formation: The Liu Family of Xingyi County, Guizhou

PART III: Republican Elites and Political Power

SEVEN Patterns of Power: Forty Years of Elite Poli tics in a Chinese County

EIGHT Mediation, Representation, and Repression: Local Elites in 1920s Beijing

PART IV: Village Elites and Revolution

NINE Corporate Property and Local Leadership in the Pearl River Delta, 1898-1941

TEN Elites and the Structures of Authority in the Villages of North China, 1900-1949

ELEVEN Local Elites and Communist Revolution in the Jiangxi Hill Country

CONCLUDING REMARKS

NOTES

GLOSSARY

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

Notes:

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780520377288

0520377281

OCLC:

1436831373