About this title: This ambitious work traces a social history of semicolonialism in late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century China. It takes as its central concern the intertwining of two antagonistic forces: elite constructions of modernity shaped globally, and an alternate line of peasant resistance and development. Nantong county and the northern portion of the commercially advanced Yangzi Delta form its focal points. Lying in the hinterland of and connected in myriad ways with the treaty port of Shanghai, which in the late nineteenth century became the center of imperialist activity in China, the ...
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Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN-13:9780804729321ISBN:0804729328
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Date Published: 1999-04-01
ISBN-13:9780804729321ISBN:0804729328
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN-13:9780804729321ISBN:0804729328
Description: New. PLEASE NOTE: All books are promptly shipped from our UK warehouse using Royal Mail International Priority mail. Heavier or more expensive books are shipped with a TRACKING NUMBER. Professional and reliable bookseller (est.1987). This ambitious work traces a social history of semicolonialism in late-19th and early-20th-century China. It takes as its central concern the intertwining of two antagonistic forces: elite constructions of modernity shaped globally and an alternative line of ... read more
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