China on the margins
By: edited by Sherman Cochran and  Paul G. Pickowicz
Series: Cornell East Asia series -- 146
Publisher: Cornell East Asia Program
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Ithaca, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9781933947167; 9781933947464
Subjects: Civilization; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Centers and margins in Chinese history  -- Sherman Cochran and Paul G. Pickowicz -- I; title: Centers in relation to margins --; title: Turning prospectors into settlers : gold, immigrant miners and the settlement of the frontier in late Qing Xinjiang  -- Judd Kinzley; title: Cultivating empire : Zuo Zontang's agriculture, environment, and reconstruction in the late Qing  -- Peter Lavalle; title: Confronting Indiana Jones : Chinese nationalism, historical imperialism, and the criminalization of Aurel Stein and the raiders of Dunhuang, 1899-1944  -- Justin Jacobs; title: "A dream deferred" : obstacles to legal reform and rights reclamation in early republican China  -- Jeremy Murray; title: Oil for the center from the margins  -- Tai Wei Lim; title: A rock and a hard place : Chinese soldiers in Xinjiang caught between center and periphery after 1949  -- Amy Kardos -- II; title: Margins in relation to centers --; title: Reform is a bonus : the networking of upper-level officials in the last decade of the Qing Dynasty  -- Elya J. Zhang; title: Democracy is in its details : the 1909 provinical assembly elections and the print media  -- David Cheng Chang; title: A bulwark never failing : the evolution of overseas Chinese  education in French Indochina, 1900-1954  -- Tracy C. Barrett; title: "To save Minnan, to save ourselves" : the Southeast Asia overseas Fujianese home village salvation movement of the 1920s and 1930s  -- Soon Keong Ong; title: Phony Phoenixes : comedy, protest, and marginality in postwar Shanghai  -- Paola Iovene; title: Rural policy in flux : Lai Ruoyu's challenge to the party center in the early 1950s -- Xiaojia Hou.