Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Preface vii
3. Contents xi
4. Maps and Figures xii
5. Tables xiii
6. Note on Wuxi County's Administrative Boundaries, Commercial Districts, and Size xv
7. Weights, Measures, and Exchange Rates xvii
8. 1 Introduction: A Tale of Two Chinas 1
9. 2 Markets and Power in the Late Imperial Era 14
10. 3 Why Wuxi? Merchant Competition and the Changing Contours of Yangzi Delta Silk Production 33
11. 4 Public Sphere or Private Interest? Defending the Wuxi Cocoon Trade 65
12. 5 Investors at Risk in the Wuxi Filature Industry 89
13. 6 Women in Sericulture, or How Gendered Labor (Re-)Shaped Peasant-Family Production 109
14. 7 Imparting Modernity: Women and the Politics of Silk-Industry Reform 132
15. 8 Success at Last? Bourgeois Practice and State Intervention Under the Nationalists 154
16. 9 Conclusion: Peasants, Industry, and the State 179
17. Appendixes
18. Appendix A Interviews 193
19. Appendix B The Wuxi Rural Surveys 200
20. Appendix C Data on Investment Patterns in Wuxi Silk Filatures 214
21. Abbreviations 223
22. Notes 225
23. Bibliography 257
24. Character List 273
25. Index 281