Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Maps and Figures ix
4. Acknowledgments xii
5. A Note for the Nonspecialist Reader xiii
6. Chapter one. Introduction 1
7. Historical Geography
8. Chapter two. Exotic Guangzhou 17
9. Chapter three. Confucian Incursions 27
10. Chapter four. We and They 38
11. Chapter five. The Land 51
12. From Registered Households to Lineages
13. Chapter six. Early Ming Society 67
14. Chapter seven. The Recession of Labor Service 79
15. Chapter eight. The Yao Wars and Ritual Orthodoxy 93
16. Chapter nine. Administrative Transition 109
17. Lineages Gentrified
18. Chapter ten. Lineage Building: The Huo Surname of Foshan 125
19. Chapter eleven. Magnates on the Sands 136
20. From Ming to Qing
21. Chapter twelve. Gentry Leadership in Local Society 151
22. Chapter thirteen. The End of Empire 164
23. Chapter fourteen. The Proliferation of Lineage Institutions 177
24. Chapter fifteen. The Ordering of Community in Ritual Life 193
25. Chapter sixteen. Incorporation: The Power of an Idea 218
26. Chapter seventeen. A Note on Prosperity 233
27. The Nineteenth-Century Transformation
28. Chapter eighteen. The Mulberry Garden Dike 253
29. Chapter nineteen. From Paramilitary to Militia 273
30. Chapter twenty. Local Power in the Taiping Rebellion 291
31. Chapter twenty-one. The Foreign Element in Pearl River Delta Society 308
32. Chapter twenty-two. Contradictions of the Nation-State: The Backwardness of Lineages 325
33. Epilogue
34. Chapter twenty-three. Beyond the Pearl River Delta 351
35. Notes 371
36. References 413
37. Glossary 447
38. Index 457