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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsLIST OF TABLES
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
PREFACE
CONTRIBUTORS
Introduction
Joseph W. Esherick and Mary Backus Rankin
PART 1: LATE IMPERIAL ELITES
1. Family Continuity and Cultural Hegemony:
The Gentry of Ningbo, 1368-1911
Timothy Brook
2. Success Stories: Lineage and Elite Status in Hanyang County,
Hubei, c. 1368- 1949
William T. Rowe
3. The Rise and Fall of the Fu-Rong Salt-Yard Elite:
Merchant Dominance in Late Qing China
Madeleine Zelin
PART II: LOCAL ELITES IN TRANSITION
4. From Comprador to County Magnate:
Bourgeois Practice in the Wuxi County Silk Industry
Lynda S. Bell
5. Power, Legitimacy, and Symbol:
Local Elites and the Jute Creek Embankment Case
R. Keith Schoppal
6. Local Military Power and Elite Formation:
The Liu Family of Xingyi County, Guizhou
Edward A. McCord
PART III: REPUBLICAN ELITES AND POLITICAL POWER
7. Patterns of Power: Forty Years of
Elite Politics in a Chinese County
Lenore Barkan
8. Mediation, Representation, and Repression: Local Elites in 1920s Beijing
David Strand
PART IV: VILLAGE ELITES AND REVOLUTION
9. Corporate Property and Local Leadership in the
Pearl River Delta, 1898-1941
Rubie S. Watson
10. Elites and the Structures of Authority in the
Villages of North China, 1900-1949
Prasenjit Duara
11. Local Elites and Communist Revolution in the
Jiangxi Hill Country
Stephen C. Averill
Concluding Remarks
Mary Backus Rankin and joseph W. Esherick
NOTES
GLOSSARY
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
