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.)

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.

Table of Contents

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