Social Transformation in Modern China
Subtitle: The State and Local Elites in Henan, 19001937 (Cambridge Modern China Series)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: November 2, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780521027557
Subjects: Asian / Middle Eastern history: from c 1900 -; Social classes; 20th century; Sociology; History: World; History; History - General History; China; Sociology - Social Theory; Asia - China; Social History; Elite (Social sciences)--China; History / China; History / Modern / 20th Century; History : Social History; Modern - 20th Century; 1912-1949; Elite (Social sciences); Politics and government; Social conditions
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.