Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. 1 Centers and Margins in Chinese History 1
5. I CENTERS IN RELATION TO MARGINS
6. 2 Turning Prospectors into Settlers: Gold, Immigrant Miners and the Settlement of the Frontier in Late Qing Xinjiang 15
7. 3 Cultivating Empire: Zuo Zongtang’s Agriculture, Environment, and Reconstruction in the Late Qing 43
8. 4 Confronting Indiana Jones: Chinese Nationalism, Historical Imperialism, and the Criminalization of Aurel Stein and the Raiders of Dunhuang, 1899–1944 65
9. 5 “A Dream Deferred”: Obstacles to Legal Reform and Rights Reclamation in Early Republican China 91
10. 6 Oil for the Center from the Margins 117
11. 7 A Rock and a Hard Place: Chinese Soldiers in Xinjiang Caught between Center and Periphery after 1949 135
12. II Margins in Relation to Centers
13. 8 Reform Is a Bonus: The Networking of Upper-Level Officials in the Last Decade of the Qing Dynasty 159
14. 9 Democracy Is in Its Details: The 1909 Provincial Assembly Elections and the Print Media 195
15. 10 A Bulwark Never Failing: The Evolution of Overseas Chinese Education in French Indochina, 1900–1954 221
16. 11 “To Save Minnan, To Save Ourselves”: The Southeast Asia Overseas Fujianese Home Village Salvation Movement of the 1920s and 1930s 243
17. 12 Phony Phoenixes: Comedy, Protest, and Marginality in Postwar Shanghai 267
18. 13 Rural Policy in Flux: Lai Ruoyu’s Challenge to the Party Center in the Early 1950s 289
19. Contributors 312
20. Index 313