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China on the Margins

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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Pickowicz, Paul, Cochran, Sherman, 1940-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell East Asia Program, c2010.
Colección:Cornell East Asia series ; 146.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Centers and margins in Chinese history / Sherman Cochran and Paul G. Pickowicz
  • I Centers in relation to margins
  • Turning prospectors into settlers : gold, immigrant miners and the settlement of the frontier in late Qing Xinjiang / Judd Kinzley
  • Cultivating empire : Zuo Zontang's agriculture, environment, and reconstruction in the late Qing / Peter Lavalle
  • Confronting Indiana Jones : Chinese nationalism, historical imperialism, and the criminalization of Aurel Stein and the raiders of Dunhuang, 1899-1944 / Justin Jacobs
  • "A dream deferred" : obstacles to legal reform and rights reclamation in early republican China / Jeremy Murray
  • Oil for the center from the margins / Tai Wei Lim
  • A rock and a hard place : Chinese soldiers in Xinjiang caught between center and periphery after 1949 / Amy Kardos
  • II Margins in relation to centers
  • Reform is a bonus : the networking of upper-level officials in the last decade of the Qing Dynasty / Elya J. Zhang
  • Democracy is in its details : the 1909 provinical assembly elections and the print media / David Cheng Chang
  • A bulwark never failing : the evolution of overseas Chinese education in French Indochina, 1900-1954 / Tracy C. Barrett
  • "To save Minnan, to save ourselves" : the Southeast Asia overseas Fujianese home village salvation movement of the 1920s and 1930s / Soon Keong Ong
  • Phony Phoenixes : comedy, protest, and marginality in postwar Shanghai / Paola Iovene
  • Rural policy in flux : Lai Ruoyu's challenge to the party center in the early 1950s / Xiaojia Hou.