Culture, power, and the state: rural North China, 1900-1942

✍ Scribed by Prasenjit Duara

Publisher: Stanford University Press
Year: 1988
Tongue: English
Leaves: 342
Series: ACLS Fellows’ Publications
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Frontmatter
Introduction (page 1)
1. The Cultural Nexus of Power (page 15)
2. Brokering Rural Administration in the Late Qing (page 42)
3. Building the Modern State in North China (page 58)
4. Lineages and the Political Structure of the Village (page 86)
5. Religion, Power, and the Public Realm in Rural Society (page 118)
6. Networks, Patrons, and Leaders in Village Government (page 158)
7. The State and the Redefinition of Village Community (page 194)
8. The Modernizing State and Local Leadership (page 217)
Conclusion (page 245)
Postscript: The Methodological Limbo of Social History (page 261)
Notes (page 269)
Bibliography (page 296)
Glossary of Chinese Terms (page 309)
Index (page 315)

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