{"product_id":"at-the-crossroads-of-empires-9780804756198","title":"At the Crossroads of Empires","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRepublican Shanghai was a heterogeneous city with  no central institutions. Yet somehow it functioned coherently. What held the city together?  The authors  argue that networks of middlemen with boundless connections provided the glue.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"One can only admire the patience and the attention to detail that the author applies to reassembling the pieces of the puzzle. . . Offers a precise and concrete illustration of the realities.\"—Marie-Claire Bergère, \u003ci\u003eChinese Perspectives\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\t000  Contributors\t000  I. Introduction  1. Middlemen, Social Networks and State-building in Republican   Shanghai: An Introduction\t000  \tNara Dillon and Jean Oi  II. Middlemen: Compradors, Gangsters \u0026amp; Political Activists  2. Huang Yanpei and the Chinese Society of Vocational Education in   Shanghai Networking\t000  \tWen-hsin Yeh  3. Wang Yiting in the Social Networks of 1910s-1930s Shanghai\t000  \tKuiyi Shen  4. Du Yuesheng, the French Concession and Social Networks in   Shanghai\t000  \tBrian G. Martin  III. Network Dynamics: Political Movements and Social Networks  5. Popular Protest in Shanghai, 1919-1927: Social Networks, Collective   Identities, and Political Parties\t000  \tElizabeth J. Perry  6. The National Salvation Movement and Social Networks in   Republican Shanghai\t000  \tParks M. Coble  7. Politics of Trial, the News Media, and Social Networks in   Nationalist China: The New Life Weekly Case, 1935\t000  \tSei Jeong Chin  IV. Networks in Action: Charity and Welfare in Republican Shanghai  8. What is in a Network? Local, Personal, and Public Loyalties in the   Context of Changing Conceptions of the State and Social Welfare\t000  \tBryna Goodman  9. The Politics of Philanthropy: The Balance Between Public and   Private Refugee Relief in Shanghai, 1932-1949\t000  \tNara Dillon  10. Cosmopolitan Connections and Transnational Networks\t000  \tJeffrey N. Wasserstrom  Notes\t000  Bibliography\t000  Index\t000","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405569139031,"sku":"9780804756198","price":49.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780804756198.jpg?v=1730492867","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/at-the-crossroads-of-empires-9780804756198","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}