At the Crossroads of Empires: Middlemen, Social Networks, and State-Building in Republican Shanghai

ISBN 10: 0804756198 / ISBN 13: 9780804756198

Editore: Stanford University Press, 2007

With very good dust jacket. Very Good hardcover with light shelfwear - NICE! Standard-sized. Codice articolo mon0000273970

Riassunto:

To a degree uncommon in among Chinese cities, Republican Shanghai had no center. Its territory was divided among three (sometimes more) municipal governments integrated into various national states and empires. No government building or religious institution gave Shanghai a “center." Yet amidst deep cleavages, the city functioned as a coherent whole. What held Shanghai together? The authors' answer is that a group of middlemen with myriad connections across political and social boundaries created networks that held Republican Shanghai together.

Contributors Include: Sei Jeong Chin, Parks Coble, Bryna Goodman, Brian Martin, Elizabeth J. Perry, Kuiyi Shen, Jeffrey Wasserstrom, and Wen-hsin Yeh

Informazioni sull?autore: Jean C. Oi is William Haas Professor of Chinese Politics and was Director of the Center for East Asian Studies at Stanford. Her publications include Rural China Takes Off: Institutional Foundations of Economic Reform (1999). She is also co-editor, with Andrew Walder, of Property Rights and Economic Reform in China (Stanford, 1999). Nara Dillon is Assistant Professor of Political Studies at Bard College.

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Titolo: At the Crossroads of Empires: Middlemen, ...
Casa editrice: Stanford University Press
Data di pubblicazione: 2007
Legatura: Hardcover
Condizione: Very Good
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