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China on the Margins
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Edited by:
Sherman Cochran
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English
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2011
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Should modern Chinese history be approached from the center looking out or from the margins looking in? The contributors to this book have explored a variety of relationships between the center (or centers) and the margins in China under the Qing dynasty, the Republic, and the People's Republic.
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Sherman Cochran is Professor of History at Cornell University.
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Frontmatter
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CONTENTS
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Acknowledgments
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1 Centers and Margins in Chinese History
1 - I CENTERS IN RELATION TO MARGINS
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2 Turning Prospectors into Settlers: Gold, Immigrant Miners and the Settlement of the Frontier in Late Qing Xinjiang
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3 Cultivating Empire: Zuo Zongtang’s Agriculture, Environment, and Reconstruction in the Late Qing
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4 Confronting Indiana Jones: Chinese Nationalism, Historical Imperialism, and the Criminalization of Aurel Stein and the Raiders of Dunhuang, 1899–1944
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5 “A Dream Deferred”: Obstacles to Legal Reform and Rights Reclamation in Early Republican China
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6 Oil for the Center from the Margins
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7 A Rock and a Hard Place: Chinese Soldiers in Xinjiang Caught between Center and Periphery after 1949
135 - II Margins in Relation to Centers
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8 Reform Is a Bonus: The Networking of Upper-Level Officials in the Last Decade of the Qing Dynasty
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9 Democracy Is in Its Details: The 1909 Provincial Assembly Elections and the Print Media
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10 A Bulwark Never Failing: The Evolution of Overseas Chinese Education in French Indochina, 1900–1954
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11 “To Save Minnan, To Save Ourselves”: The Southeast Asia Overseas Fujianese Home Village Salvation Movement of the 1920s and 1930s
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12 Phony Phoenixes: Comedy, Protest, and Marginality in Postwar Shanghai
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13 Rural Policy in Flux: Lai Ruoyu’s Challenge to the Party Center in the Early 1950s
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Contributors
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Index
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Keywords for this book
Qing dynasty; the Republic; the people's republic of China; how to approach modern Chinese history; shifting perspectives
Audience(s) for this book
For a non-specialist adult audience
