China on the Margins /

China on the Margins / / 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...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (336 p.)
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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

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