Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Introduction
  • Late Imperial Chengdu, Provincial City
  • Nation Building and the City, 1895-1911
  • The Key to Urban Reform: The New Police
  • The Winds of Progress: The Late Qing Urban Reform Agenda
  • Self-government and Revolution
  • After the Revolution: Soldiers, Sages, and Gowned Brothers
  • The City Administration Movement of the 1920S
  • Legacy of the New Policies: Continuity and Change in Chengdu in Comparative Perspective
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Character List
  • Index
  • Harvard East Asian Monographs.