Title: Negotiated Power
Description: "Posits an alternative understanding of the relationship between the state and social elites in the middle period of Chinese imperial history. The book shows in vivid detail how state power and local elite interests were mutually constitutive and reinforcing"--Provided by the publisher.
Subjects: Elite (social sciences), State, the, China, politics and government, Politics and government, Social conditions, History, The State, Negotiation, Power (Social sciences), Social structure, Political aspects