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Record Nr.

UNINA9910495859703321

Autore

Goodman Bryna <1955->

Titolo

Native Place, City, and Nation : Regional Networks and Identities in Shanghai, 1853-1937 / / Bryna Goodman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, California : , : University of California Press, , [1995]

©1995

ISBN

0-520-91545-3

0-585-10293-7

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 367 p. ) : ill. ;

Disciplina

951.132035

Soggetti

Social networks - China - Shanghai - History - 19th century

Social networks - China - Shanghai - History - 20th century

Rural-urban migration - China - Shanghai - History - 19th century

Rural-urban migration - China - Shanghai - History - 20th century

Shanghai (China) Social life and customs

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction: The Moral Excellence of Loving the Group -- 2. Foreign Imperialism, Immigration and Disorder: Opium War Aftermath and the Small Sword Uprising of i8s3 -- 3. Community, Hierarchy and Authority: Elites and Non-elites in the Making of Native-Place Culture during the Late Qing -- 4. Expansive Practices: Charity, Modern Enterprise, the City and the State -- 5. Native-Place Associations, Foreign Authority and Early Popular Nationalism -- 6. The Native Place and the Nation: Anti-Imperialist and Republican Revolutionary Mobilization -- 7. "Modern Spirit," Institutional Change and the Effects of Warlord Government: Associations in the Early Republic -- 8. The Native Place and the State: Nationalism, State Building and Public Maneuvering -- 9. Conclusion: Culture, Modernity and the Sources of National Identity -- Appendix -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book explores the role of native place associations in the development of modern Chinese urban society and the role of native-place identity in the development of urban nationalism. From the late



nineteenth to the early twentieth century, sojourners from other provinces dominated the population of Shanghai and other expanding commercial Chinese cities. These immigrants formed native place associations beginning in the imperial period and persisting into the mid-twentieth century. Goodman examines the modernization of these associations and argues that under weak urban government, native place sentiment and organization flourished and had a profound effect on city life, social order and urban and national identity.