Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VII
3. Illustrations IX
4. Acknowledgments XI
5. 1. Introduction: The Moral Excellence of Loving the Group 1
6. 2. Foreign Imperialism, Immigration and Disorder: Opium War Aftermath and the Small Sword Uprising of i8s3 47
7. 3. Community, Hierarchy and Authority: Elites and Non-elites in the Making of Native-Place Culture during the Late Qing 84
8. 4. Expansive Practices: Charity, Modern Enterprise, the City and the State 119
9. 5. Native-Place Associations, Foreign Authority and Early Popular Nationalism 147
10. 6. The Native Place and the Nation: Anti-Imperialist and Republican Revolutionary Mobilization 176
11. 7. "Modern Spirit," Institutional Change and the Effects of Warlord Government: Associations in the Early Republic 217
12. 8. The Native Place and the State: Nationalism, State Building and Public Maneuvering 258
13. 9. Conclusion: Culture, Modernity and the Sources of National Identity 305
14. Appendix 315
15. Glossary 317
16. Bibliography 325
17. Index 349