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Town and Country in China

Identity and Perception

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  • © 2002

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Editors:
  1. David Faure

    1. St Antony’s College, Oxford, UK

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  2. Tao Tao Liu

    1. Wadham College, Oxford, UK

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Part of the book series: St Antony's Series (STANTS)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction

    • David Faure, Tao Tao Liu
    Pages 1-16

  3. Marvelling at the Wonders of the Metropolis: Perceptions of Seventeenth-Century Chinese Cities in the novel Xingshi yinyuan zhuan …

    • Daria Berg
    Pages 17-40

  4. Town and Country Representation as Seen in Temple Fairs

    • Zhao Shiyu
    Pages 41-57

  5. What Weber Did Not Know: Towns and Economic Development in Ming and Qing China

    • David Faure
    Pages 58-84

  6. Village Identity in Rural North China: a Sense of Place in the Diary of Liu Dapeng

    • Henrietta Harrison
    Pages 85-106

  7. Factories in the Countryside: the Industrial Workforce and Social Division in Nantong County, 1895–1937

    • Elisabeth Köll
    Pages 107-125

  8. Urban Superiority, Modernity and Local Identity — a Think Piece on the Case of Shanghai

    • Hanchao Lu
    Pages 126-144

  9. Emergent Civil Society in the Late Qing Dynasty: the Case of Suzhou

    • Ma Min
    Pages 145-165

  10. Representing the City: Shanghai and its Maps

    • Catherine Vance Yeh
    Pages 166-202

  11. Perceptions of City and Country in Modern Chinese Fiction in the Early Republican Era

    • Tao Tao Liu
    Pages 203-232

  12. Redefining the Market Town through Festivals in South China

    • Helen F. Siu
    Pages 233-249

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 250-260
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The transformation in Chinese social theory in the twentieth century placed the rural-urban divide at the centre of individual identity. In 1500, such distinctions were insignificant and it was the emergence of political reforms in the early 1920s and 1930s which separated cities and towns as agents of social change and encouraged a perception of rural backwardness. This interdisciplinary collection traces the development and distinctions between urban and rural life and the effect on the Chinese sense of identity from the sixteenth century to the present day. It provides a daunting example of the influence that political ideology may exert on an individual's sense of place.

Editors and Affiliations

  • St Antony’s College, Oxford, UK

    David Faure

  • Wadham College, Oxford, UK

    Tao Tao Liu

About the editors

DARIA BERG Lecturer in Chinese Literature, University of Durham HENRIETTA HARRISON Lecturer in History, University of Leeds ELISABETH KÖLL Assistant Professor, Department of History, Case Western Reserve University HANCHAO LU Associate Professor, School of History, Technology and Society, Georgia Institute of Technology MA MIN Professor of History, Central China Normal University HELEN F. SIU Professor in Anthropology, Yale University ZHAO SHIYU Professor of History, Beijing Normal University CATHERINE VANCE YEH Institute of Chinese Studies, University of Heidelberg

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