At the crossroads of empires : middlemen, social networks and state-building in republican Shanghai / [electronic resource]
Dillon, Nara.
Oi, Jean Chun.
Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press,
2008.
To a degree uncommon among Chinese cities, Republican Shanghai had no centre. Its territory was divided among three (sometimes more) municipal governments integrated into various national states and empires. No government building or religious institution gave Shanghai a 'centre'. Yet amidst deep cleavages, the city functioned as a coherent whole. What held Shanghai together? The authors of this book's answer is that a group of middlemen with myriad connections across political and social boundaries created networks which held Republican Shanghai together.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Middlemen, social networks, and state-building in Republican Shanghai : an introduction / Nara Dillon and Jean Oi -- Huang Yanpei and the Chinese society of vocational education in Shanghai networking / Wen-hsin Yeh -- Wang Yiting in the social networks of 1910s-1930s Shanghai / Kuiyi Shen -- Du Yuesheng, the French concession, and social networks in Shanghai / Brian G. Martin -- Popular protest in Shanghai, 1919-1927 : social networks, collective identities, and political parties / Elizabeth J. Perry -- The national salvation movement and social networks in Republican Shanghai / Parks M. Coble -- Politics of trial, the news media, and social networks in Nationalist China : the new life weekly case, 1935 / Sei Jeong Chin -- What is in a network? local, personal, and public loyalties in the context of changing conceptions of the state and social welfare / Bryna Goodman -- The politics of philanthropy : social networks and refugee relief in Shanghai, 1932-1949 / Nara Dillon -- Cosmopolitan connections and transnational networks / Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
To a degree uncommon among Chinese cities, Republican Shanghai had no centre. Its territory was divided among three (sometimes more) municipal governments integrated into various national states and empires. No government building or religious institution gave Shanghai a 'centre'. Yet amidst deep cleavages, the city functioned as a coherent whole. What held Shanghai together? The authors of this book's answer is that a group of middlemen with myriad connections across political and social boundaries created networks which held Republican Shanghai together.
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Cultural pluralism
Social networks
Social networks
Cultural pluralism
Sociology & Social History
Social Sciences
Social Conditions