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Social transformation in modern China : the state and local elites in Henan, 1900-1937

The author uses the case of local elites and the power structure of Henan province in north-central China to demonstrate how local politics first transformed local society, challenged the state and eventually influenced change across China. Rather than focusing separately on elite mobility, social mobilization or state-making, observation of changes in all three categories as interrelated aspects of a single, self-generating phenomenon of social change
Print Book, English, 2000
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 2000
xvi, 320 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
9780521642897, 0521642892
42597803
List of illustrations; List of tables; Acknowledgements; Part I. Introduction: 1. Theoretical context; 2. Socioeconomic setting of Henan; Part II. Local Elites and the Transition of Community Power: 3. Local society in transition; 4. Elite mobility in a changing world; Part III. Elite Activism and Social Transformation: 5. Society as the organization of networks; 6. Local identity, localism, and crisis of legitimacy; Part IV. Modern State Making and the Interaction Between State and Society: 7. State making during the Republican period; 8. State and society in mutual engagement; Conclusion; Appendix; Bibliography; Index.