Town and Country in China

DARIA BERG Lecturer in Chinese Literature, University of DurhamHENRIETTA HARRISON Lecturer in History, University of LeedsELISABETH KÖLL Assistant Professor, Department of History, Case Western Reserve UniversityHANCHAO LU Associate Professor, School of History, Technology and Society, Georgia Institute of TechnologyMA MIN Professor of History, Central China Normal UniversityHELEN F. SIU Professor in Anthropology, Yale UniversityZHAO SHIYU Professor of History, Beijing Normal UniversityCATHERINE VANCE YEH Institute of Chinese Studies, University of Heidelberg

• List of Maps and Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction Marvelling at the Wonders of the Metropolis: Perceptions of Seventeenth-Century Chinese Cities in the Novel xingshi yinyuan zhuan ; D.Berg Town and Country Representation as Seen in Temple Fairs; Z.Shiyu What Weber Did Not Know: Towns and Economic Development in Ming and Qing China; D.Faure Village Identity in Rural North China: A Sense of Place in the Diary of Liu Dapeng; H.Harrison Factories in the Countryside: The Industrial Workforce and Social Division in Nantong County, 1895-1937; E.Köll Urban Superiority, Modernity, and Local Identity: A Think Piece on the Case of Shanghai; H.Lu Civil Society in Late Qing Suzhou; M.Min Representing the City: Shanghai and its Maps; C.V.Yeh Perceptions of City and Country in Republican Fiction; T.T.Liu Redefining the Market Town Through Festivals in South China; H.F.Siu Index