Chinese Local Elites and Patterns of Dominance

Joseph W. Esherick is Professor of History at the University of California, San Diego and author of The Origins of the Boxer Uprising (California, 1987). Mary Backus Rankin is the author of Elite Activism and Political Transformation in China (1986).

• LIST OF TABLESLIST OF ILLUSTRATIONSPREFACECONTRIBUTORSIntroductionJoseph W. Esherick and Mary Backus RankinPART 1: LATE IMPERIAL ELITES1. Family Continuity and Cultural Hegemony:The Gentry of Ningbo, 1368-1911Timothy Brook2. Success Stories: Lineage and Elite Status in Hanyang County,Hubei, c. 1368- 1949William T. Rowe3. The Rise and Fall of the Fu-Rong Salt-Yard Elite:Merchant Dominance in Late Qing ChinaMadeleine ZelinPART II: LOCAL ELITES IN TRANSITION4. From Comprador to County Magnate:Bourgeois Practice in the Wuxi County Silk IndustryLynda S. Bell5. Power, Legitimacy, and Symbol:Local Elites and the Jute Creek Embankment CaseR. Keith Schoppal6. Local Military Power and Elite Formation:The Liu Family of Xingyi County, GuizhouEdward A. McCordPART III: REPUBLICAN ELITES AND POLITICAL POWER7. Patterns of Power: Forty Years ofElite Politics in a Chinese CountyLenore Barkan8. Mediation, Representation, and Repression: Local Elites in 1920s BeijingDavid StrandPART IV: VILLAGE ELITES AND REVOLUTION9. Corporate Property and Local Leadership in thePearl River Delta, 1898-1941Rubie S. Watson10. Elites and the Structures of Authority in theVillages of North China, 1900-1949Prasenjit Duara11. Local Elites and Communist Revolution in theJiangxi Hill CountryStephen C. AverillConcluding RemarksMary Backus Rankin and joseph W. EsherickNOTESGLOSSARYBIBLIOGRAPHYINDEX