Town and Country in China: Identity and Perception

Table of contents

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• Title Page iii
• Contents v
• List of Maps and Illustrations vii
• Notes on the Contributors ix
• Introduction 1
• 1 - Marvelling at the Wonders of the Metropolis: Perceptions of Seventeenth-Century Chinese Cities in the Novel Xingshi Yinyuan Zhuan . . . 17
• 2 - Town and Country Representation as Seen in Temple Fairs 41
• 3 - What Weber Did Not Know: Towns and Economic Development in Ming and Qing China 58
• Notes 82
• 4 - Village Identity in Rural North China: a Sense of Place in the Diary of Liu Dapeng 85
• 5 - Factories in the Countryside: the Industrial Workforce and Social Division in Nantong County, 1895–1937 107
• Notes 123
• References 124
• 6 - Urban Superiority, Modernity and Local Identity – a Think Piece on the Case of Shanghai 126
• 7 - Emergent Civil Society in the Late Qing Dynasty: the Case of Suzhou 145
• 8 - Representing the City: Shanghai and Its Maps 166

• Title Page iii
• Contents v
• List of Maps and Illustrations vii
• Notes on the Contributors ix
• Introduction 1
• 1 - Marvelling at the Wonders of the Metropolis: Perceptions of Seventeenth-Century Chinese Cities in the Novel Xingshi Yinyuan Zhuan . . . 17
• 2 - Town and Country Representation as Seen in Temple Fairs 41
• 3 - What Weber Did Not Know: Towns and Economic Development in Ming and Qing China 58
• Notes 82
• 4 - Village Identity in Rural North China: a Sense of Place in the Diary of Liu Dapeng 85
• 5 - Factories in the Countryside: the Industrial Workforce and Social Division in Nantong County, 1895–1937 107
• Notes 123
• References 124
• 6 - Urban Superiority, Modernity and Local Identity – a Think Piece on the Case of Shanghai 126
• 7 - Emergent Civil Society in the Late Qing Dynasty: the Case of Suzhou 145
• 8 - Representing the City: Shanghai and Its Maps 166
• 9 - Perceptions of City and Country in Modern Chinese Fiction in the Early Republican Era 203
• 10 - Redefining the Market Town Through Festivals in South China 233
• Index 250