Author: University of California, Berkeley. Center for Chinese Studies

Conflict and control in late Imperial China
Date1975
Publish_locationBerkeley
PublisherUniversity of California Press
CollectionRicci Institute Library [ASCC]
Edition
LanguageEnglish
Record_typeBook
Series
ShelfReading Room
Call NumberHN676.C66 1975
Descriptionxx, 328 p. : maps ; 25 cm.
NoteConflict and control in late Imperial China / edited by Frederic Wakeman, Jr. and Carolyn Grant.
Selected papers originally presented at a conference sponsored by the Center for Chinese Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, and the Committee on Studies of Chinese Civilization of the American Council of Learned Societies held at East-West Center, Honolulu, June, 1971.
Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

SubjectChina--History--Qing dynasty, 1644-1911--Congresses China--Social conditions--Congresses Power (Social sciences)--China--Congresses
ISBN0520025970 ; 9780520025974
LCCN73087247