Mary Backus Rankin & Joseph W. Esherick 
Chinese Local Elites and Patterns of Dominance [PDF ebook] 

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. Mc Cord, William T. Rowe, Keith Schoppa, David Strand, Rubie S. Watson, and Madeleine Zelin.


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Зміст

LIST OF TABLES

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

PREFACE

CONTRIBUTORS


Introduction

Joseph W. Esherick and Mary Backus Rankin


PART 1: LATE IMPERIAL ELITES

1. Family Continuity and Cultural Hegemony:

The Gentry of Ningbo, 1368-1911

Timothy Brook

2. Success Stories: Lineage and Elite Status in Hanyang County,

Hubei, c. 1368- 1949

William T. Rowe

3. The Rise and Fall of the Fu-Rong Salt-Yard Elite:

Merchant Dominance in Late Qing China

Madeleine Zelin


PART II: LOCAL ELITES IN TRANSITION

4. From Comprador to County Magnate:

Bourgeois Practice in the Wuxi County Silk Industry

Lynda S. Bell

5. Power, Legitimacy, and Symbol:

Local Elites and the Jute Creek Embankment Case

R. Keith Schoppal

6. Local Military Power and Elite Formation:

The Liu Family of Xingyi County, Guizhou

Edward A. Mc Cord


PART III: REPUBLICAN ELITES AND POLITICAL POWER

7. Patterns of Power: Forty Years of

Elite Politics in a Chinese County

Lenore Barkan

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

David Strand


PART IV: VILLAGE ELITES AND REVOLUTION

9. Corporate Property and Local Leadership in the

Pearl River Delta, 1898-1941

Rubie S. Watson

10. Elites and the Structures of Authority in the

Villages of North China, 1900-1949

Prasenjit Duara

11. Local Elites and Communist Revolution in the

Jiangxi Hill Country

Stephen C. Averill


Concluding Remarks

Mary Backus Rankin and joseph W. Esherick


NOTES

GLOSSARY

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

Про автора

Joseph W. Esherick is Professor of History at the University of California, San Diego and author of The Origins of the Boxer Uprising (California, 1987). Mary Backus Rankin is the author of Elite Activism and Political Transformation in China (1986).