TY  - BOOK
AU  - Barrett,Tracy C.
AU  - Cheng Chang,David
AU  - Cochran,Sherman
AU  - Hou,Xiaojia
AU  - Iovene,Paola
AU  - Jacobs,Justin
AU  - Kardos,Amy
AU  - Keong Ong,Soon
AU  - Kinzley,Judd
AU  - Lavelle,Peter
AU  - Murray,Jeremy
AU  - Pickowicz,Paul G.
AU  - Wei Lim,Tai
AU  - Zhang,Elya J.
TI  - China on the Margins
SN  - 9781942242468
AV  - DS754.12 .C446
U1  - 951.03 23
PY  - 2011///]
CY  - Ithaca, NY : 
PB  - Cornell University Press, 
KW  - Borderlands
KW  - China
KW  - History
KW  - Asian Studies
KW  - HISTORY / Asia / China
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; Acknowledgments --; 1 Centers and Margins in Chinese History --; I CENTERS IN RELATION TO MARGINS --; 2 Turning Prospectors into Settlers: Gold, Immigrant Miners and the Settlement of the Frontier in Late Qing Xinjiang --; 3 Cultivating Empire: Zuo Zongtang’s Agriculture, Environment, and Reconstruction in the Late Qing --; 4 Confronting Indiana Jones: Chinese Nationalism, Historical Imperialism, and the Criminalization of Aurel Stein and the Raiders of Dunhuang, 1899–1944 --; 5 “A Dream Deferred”: Obstacles to Legal Reform and Rights Reclamation in Early Republican China --; 6 Oil for the Center from the Margins --; 7 A Rock and a Hard Place: Chinese Soldiers in Xinjiang Caught between Center and Periphery after 1949 --; II Margins in Relation to Centers --; 8 Reform Is a Bonus: The Networking of Upper-Level Officials in the Last Decade of the Qing Dynasty --; 9 Democracy Is in Its Details: The 1909 Provincial Assembly Elections and the Print Media --; 10 A Bulwark Never Failing: The Evolution of Overseas Chinese Education in French Indochina, 1900–1954 --; 11 “To Save Minnan, To Save Ourselves”: The Southeast Asia Overseas Fujianese Home Village Salvation Movement of the 1920s and 1930s --; 12 Phony Phoenixes: Comedy, Protest, and Marginality in Postwar Shanghai --; 13 Rural Policy in Flux: Lai Ruoyu’s Challenge to the Party Center in the Early 1950s --; Contributors --; Index; restricted access
N2  - Should modern Chinese history be approached from the center looking out or from the margins looking in? The contributors to this book have explored a variety of relationships between the center (or centers) and the margins in China under the Qing dynasty, the Republic, and the People's Republic
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781942242468
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781942242468
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781942242468/original
ER  -