Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: The moral excellence of loving the group
  • Foreign imperialism, immigration and disorder: Opium war aftermath and the Small Sword Uprising of 1853
  • Community, hierarchy and authority: Elites and non-elites in the making of native-place culture during the Late Qing
  • Expansive practices: Charity, modern enterprise, the city and the state
  • Native-place associations, foreign authority and early popular nationalism
  • The native place and the nation: Anti-imperialist and republican revolutionary mobilization
  • "Modern spirit," institutional change and the effects of warlord government associations in the early republic
  • The native place and the state: Nationalism, state building and public maneuvering
  • Conclusion: Culture, modernity and the sources of national identity.