Social Transformation in Modern China
Subtitle: The State and Local Elites in Henan, 19001937 (Cambridge Modern China Series)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: September 25, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780521642897
Subjects: Asian / Middle Eastern history: from c 1900 -; Social classes; Sociology - Social Theory; 20th century; History - General History; Government (Specific Aspects); Social Situations And Conditions; Social conditions; Social Science; Social History; History: World; China; Asia - China; Elite (Social sciences)--China; History / Modern / 20th Century; Sociology; Sociology - General; 1912-1949; Elite (Social sciences); Politics and government
First sentence: ON a hot day in July 1938, shortly after Japanese troops occupied the capital city of Nanjing, Chiang Kai-shek, then the national leader of China, arrived in Wuhan two months before the city fell into the hands of the enemy.