Chinese local elites and patterns of dominance / / edited by Joseph W. Esherick and Mary Backus Rankin

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910495877703321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , [1990]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xvii, 450 pages) : illustrations
• Collana: Studies on China ; ; 11
• Soggetti: Elite (Social sciences) - China; Conference papers and proceedings.; China Social conditions Congresses
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Rev. versions of papers presented at the Conference on Chinese Local Elites and Patterns of Dominance held in Aug. 1987 at Banff, Canada; sponsored by the Joint Committee on Chinese Studies of the American Council of Learned Societies and the Social Science Research Council.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages 411-444) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Late imperial elites. Family continuity and cultural hegemony : the gentry of Ningbo, 1368-1911 / Timothy Brook -- Success stories : lineage and elite status in Hanyang County, Hubei, c. 1368-1949 / William T. Rowe -- The rise and fall of the Fu-Rong salt-yard elite : merchant dominance in late Qing China / Madeleine Zelin -- Local elites in transition. From comprador to county magnate : bourgeois practice in the Wuxi County silk industry / Lynda S. Bell -- Power, legitimacy, and symbol : local elites and the Jute Creek embankment case / R. Keith Schoppa -- Local military power and elite formation : the Liu family of Xingyi County, Guizhou / Edward A. McCord -- Republican elites and political power. Patterns of power : forty years of elite politics in a Chinese county / Lenore Barkan -- Mediation, representation, and repression : local elites in 1920s Beijing / David Strand -- Village elites and revolution. Corporate property and local leadership in the Pearl River Delta, 1898-1941 / Rubie S. Watson.; Elites and the structures of authority in the villages of North China, 1900-1949 / Prasenjit Duara -- Local elites and communist revolution in the Jiangxi Hill Country / Stephen C. Averill -- Concluding remarks / Mary Backus Rankin and Joseph W. Esherick.