Knowledge, Power, and Networks : : Elites in Transition in Modern China / / edited by Christian Henriot.

• Superior document: Studies on Modern East Asian History ; 3
• TeilnehmendeR: Henriot, Christian,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2022.
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Studies on Modern East Asian History ; 3.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (351 pages)
• Notes: This volume examines the formidable transformation of elites in China in the Republican period and how the redistribution of power, wealth and knowledge among the newly formed elites left a deep imprint on the rise of modern China up to this day.

In the past decades, the world has watched the rise of China as an economic and military power and the emergence of Chinese transnational elites. What may seem like an entirely new phenomenon marks the revival of a trend initiated at the end of the Qing. The redistribution of power, wealth and knowledge among the newly formed elites matured during the Republican period. This volume demonstrates both the difficulty and the value of re-thinking the elites in modern China. It establishes that the study of the dynamic tensions within the elite and among elite groups in this epochal era is within reach if we are prepared to embrace forms of historical inquiry that integrate the abundant and even limitless historical resources, and to engage with the rich repertoire of digital techniques/instruments available and question our previous research paradigms. This renewed approach brings historical research closer to an integrative data-rich history of modern China.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1 Introduction: Knowledge, Power, and Networks-Elites in Transition in Modern China -- Chapter 2 Who Are Elites? Elite Distinction and Who's Who Publications in Early 20th-Century China -- Chapter 3 X-Boorman: The Biographical Dictionary of Republican China in the Digital Age -- Chapter 4 Middling Elites: Middle Managers and Bank Professionals at the Shanghai Bank of China on the Eve of the Communist Revolution -- Chapter 5 Structures of Empowerment: A Network Exploration of Women Activists' Collective Biographies in 20th-Century China -- Chapter 6 "Service to the Empire and to the Community": The British Women's Association in Shanghai, 1921-51 -- Chapter 7 Revolutionary Roads: An Integrative Analysis Utilizing a Chinese Biographical Database -- Chapter 8 Foreign Clubs with Chinese Flavor: The Rotary Club of Shanghai and the Politics of Language -- Chapter 9 The American-Returned Students: Educational Networks and New Forms of Business in Early Republican China -- Chapter 10 Navigating between Political Authorities: Chinese Rockefeller Fellows in Biology and Chemistry and Their Career Trajectories from 1949 to 1966 -- Index.