At the Crossroads of Empires

Jean C. Oi is William Haas Professor of Chinese Politics and was Director of the Center for East Asian Studies at Stanford. Her publications include Rural China Takes Off: Institutional Foundations of Economic Reform (1999). She is also co-editor, with Andrew Walder, of Property Rights and Economic Reform in China (Stanford, 1999). Nara Dillon is Assistant Professor of Political Studies at Bard College.

• Acknowledgments000 Contributors000 I. Introduction 1. Middlemen, Social Networks and State-building in Republican Shanghai: An Introduction000 Nara Dillon and Jean Oi II. Middlemen: Compradors, Gangsters & Political Activists 2. Huang Yanpei and the Chinese Society of Vocational Education in Shanghai Networking000 Wen-hsin Yeh 3. Wang Yiting in the Social Networks of 1910s-1930s Shanghai000 Kuiyi Shen 4. Du Yuesheng, the French Concession and Social Networks in Shanghai000 Brian G. Martin III. Network Dynamics: Political Movements and Social Networks 5. Popular Protest in Shanghai, 1919-1927: Social Networks, Collective Identities, and Political Parties000 Elizabeth J. Perry 6. The National Salvation Movement and Social Networks in Republican Shanghai000 Parks M. Coble 7. Politics of Trial, the News Media, and Social Networks in Nationalist China: The New Life Weekly Case, 1935000 Sei Jeong Chin IV. Networks in Action: Charity and Welfare in Republican Shanghai 8. What is in a Network? Local, Personal, and Public Loyalties in the Context of Changing Conceptions of the State and Social Welfare000 Bryna Goodman 9. The Politics of Philanthropy: The Balance Between Public and Private Refugee Relief in Shanghai, 1932-1949000 Nara Dillon 10. Cosmopolitan Connections and Transnational Networks000 Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom Notes000 Bibliography000 Index000

"One can only admire the patience and the attention to detail that the author applies to reassembling the pieces of the puzzle. . . Offers a precise and concrete illustration of the realities."—Marie-Claire Bergère, Chinese Perspectives