Reimagining Elite Women’s Culture in Late Imperial China: Social Networks, Literary Legacies, and the Transition to Modernity

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Introduction. From Nodes to Narratives: Network Analysis and the Dynamics of Modern China 1
4. The Hong Kong Branch: A Spatial-Microhistory of Augustine Heard & Co., 1856–1876 23
5. Reimagining Elite Women’s Culture in Late Imperial China: Social Networks, Literary Legacies, and the Transition to Modernity 59
6. Technocracy and Technostructure in Nationalist China: Expert Rule or Rule over Experts? 99
7. Agricultural Technocrats in Modern China: A Network-Based Study of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry 135
8. Bonding Minds, Bridging Nations: Sino-American Alumni Networks in the Era of Exclusion (1882–1936) 163
9. Chinese Students in Belgium (1919–1939): An Exploratory Analysis with the Liubi Xuesheng-Dataset 241
10. Unleashing the Power of Knowledge and Networks: Raising Capital for Publishing Companies in Shanghai (1928–1937) 281
11. Forging Bonds and Building Factories: The Networked World of Shanghai’s Industrial Elite 313
12. Social Stability and Mobility in Taiwan Across the 1945 Divide: The Habitus of Political Elites 351
13. Index 391