China on the Margins / / ed. by Paul G. Pickowicz, Sherman Cochran.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
• MitwirkendeR: Barrett, Tracy C.,; Cheng Chang, David,; Cochran, Sherman,; Hou, Xiaojia,; Iovene, Paola,; Jacobs, Justin,; Kardos, Amy,; Keong Ong, Soon,; Kinzley, Judd,; Lavelle, Peter,; Murray, Jeremy,; Pickowicz, Paul G.,; Wei Lim, Tai,; Zhang, Elya J.,
• HerausgeberIn: Cochran, Sherman,; Pickowicz, Paul G.,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2011]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (336 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; Acknowledgments --; 1 Centers and Margins in Chinese History --; I CENTERS IN RELATION TO MARGINS --; 2 Turning Prospectors into Settlers: Gold, Immigrant Miners and the Settlement of the Frontier in Late Qing Xinjiang --; 3 Cultivating Empire: Zuo Zongtang’s Agriculture, Environment, and Reconstruction in the Late Qing --; 4 Confronting Indiana Jones: Chinese Nationalism, Historical Imperialism, and the Criminalization of Aurel Stein and the Raiders of Dunhuang, 1899–1944 --; 5 “A Dream Deferred”: Obstacles to Legal Reform and Rights Reclamation in Early Republican China --; 6 Oil for the Center from the Margins --; 7 A Rock and a Hard Place: Chinese Soldiers in Xinjiang Caught between Center and Periphery after 1949 --; II Margins in Relation to Centers --; 8 Reform Is a Bonus: The Networking of Upper-Level Officials in the Last Decade of the Qing Dynasty --; 9 Democracy Is in Its Details: The 1909 Provincial Assembly Elections and the Print Media --; 10 A Bulwark Never Failing: The Evolution of Overseas Chinese Education in French Indochina, 1900–1954 --; 11 “To Save Minnan, To Save Ourselves”: The Southeast Asia Overseas Fujianese Home Village Salvation Movement of the 1920s and 1930s --; 12 Phony Phoenixes: Comedy, Protest, and Marginality in Postwar Shanghai --; 13 Rural Policy in Flux: Lai Ruoyu’s Challenge to the Party Center in the Early 1950s --; Contributors --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781942242468; 9783110536171
• DOI: 10.1515/9781942242468
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Paul G. Pickowicz, Sherman Cochran.

Should modern Chinese history be approached from the center looking out or from the margins looking in? The contributors to this book have explored a variety of relationships between the center (or centers) and the margins in China under the Qing dynasty, the Republic, and the People's Republic.