At the crossroads of empires
Subtitle: middlemen, social networks and state-building in republican Shanghai
By: edited by Nara Dillon and Jean C. Oi.
Contributors: Dillon, Nara.; Oi, Jean Chun.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780804756198
Subjects: Social networks -- China -- Shanghai -- History -- 20th century; Pluralism (Social sciences) -- China -- Shanghai -- History -- 20th century; Shanghai (China) -- History -- 20th century; Shanghai (China) -- Politics and government -- 20th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Middlemen, social networks, and state-building in republican Shanghai : an introduction / Nara Dillon and Jean Oi; title: Huang Yanpei and the Chinese society of vocational education in Shanghai networking / Wen-hsin Yeh; title: Wang Yiting in the social networks of 1910s-1930s Shanghai / Kuiyi Shen; title: Du Yuesheng, the French concession, and social networks in Shanghai / Brian G. Martin; title: Popular protest in Shanghai, 1919-1927 : social networks, collective identities, and political parties / Elizabeth J. Perry; title: The national salvation movement and social networks in republican Shanghai / Parks M. Coble; title: Politics of trial, the news media, and social networks in nationalist China : the new life weekly case, 1935 / Sei Jeong Chin; title: What is in a network? local, personal, and public loyalties in the context of changing conceptions of the state and social welfare / Bryna Goodman; title: The politics of philanthropy : the balance between public and private refugee relief in Shanghai, 1932-1949 / Nara Dillon; title: Cosmopolitan connections and transnational networks / Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom.