{"product_id":"chinese-modernity-and-the-peasant-path-9780804729321","title":"Chinese Modernity and the Peasant Path","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis ambitious work traces a social history of semicolonialism in late-19th and early-20th-century China. It takes as its central concern the intertwining of two antagonistic forces: elite constructions of modernity shaped globally and an alternative line of peasant resistance and development.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Walker successfully integrates Japanese, pre and post-Cultural Revolution Chinese, and Western historiography as well as an impressive body of theoretical work, and her book will become required reading for specialists in the field.\" -- \u003ci\u003eCanadian Journal of History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: modernity, the semicolonial process and alternative histories  Part I. Signposts: The Ming-Qing Transition and Beyond: 1. Agrarian class relations and peasant history in the Southern Yangzi delta during the Ming  2. The view from the periphery: Tongzhou and the Northern delta  3. Historical trends during the Qing  Part II. The Semicolonial Process: 4. Shanghai, cotton cloth and the shaping of Nantong's modern merchant elite  5. Remaking local power: Zhang Jian's self-reliant path  6. Extending the sway of commercial capital  7. The politics of the peasant and modernist paths in the late Qing-early Republican years  8. Constituting 'semicolonial capitalisms': modern landlordism, commercial farming, and rural labor  9. Subproletarianization in the industrial districts  Conclusion: semicolonialism and the peasant path  Notes  References  Character list  Index.","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405514580311,"sku":"9780804729321","price":63.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780804729321.jpg?v=1730492476","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/chinese-modernity-and-the-peasant-path-9780804729321","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}