Introduction: The evolution of local control in late imperial China / Frederic Wakeman, Jr. Hierarchies and networks: a comparison of Chinese and Islamic societies / Ira M. Lapidus -- Localism and loyalism during the Ch’ing conquest of Kiangnan: the tragedy of Chiang-yin / Frederic Wakeman, Jr. -- Fiscal reform and local control: the gentry-bureaucratic alliance survives the conquest / Jerry Dennerline -- Local control of convicted thieves in eighteenth-century China / Fu-mei Chang Chen -- Opium smoking in Ch’ing China / Jonathan Spence -- Some preliminary statistical patterns of mass actions in nineteenth-century China / C.K. Yang -- Gentry hegemony: Soochow in the Tʼung-chih restoration / James Polachek -- Local self-government under the republic: problems of control, autonomy, and mobilization / Philip A. Kuhn.

Peasants -- Gentry -- Merchants -- The dynastic cycle -- The rise of the Manchus -- Early and high Ch'ing -- The western intrusion -- Invasion and rebellion -- The illusion of restoration and self-strengthening -- Dynastic reform and reaction -- The end of the mandate.

Local access dig.pdf. (2 v. in 1 file) [Wakeman-Great-Enterprise.pdf]