Culture, Power, and the State Rural North China, 1900-1942

Name: Culture, Power, and the State Rural North China, 1900-1942
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ISBN: 9780804718882

ISBN-10: 0804718881

ISBN-13: 9780804718882

Edition: 1988

Authors: Prasenjit Duara

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In the early twentieth century, the Chinese state made strenuous efforts to broaden and deepen its authority over rural society. This book is an ambitious attempt to offer both a method and a framework for analyzing Chinese social history in the state-making era.The author constructs a prismatic view of village-level society that shows how marketing, kinship, water control, temple patronage, and other structures of human interaction overlapped to form what he calls the cultural nexus of power in local society. The author's concept of the cultural nexus and his tracing of how it was altered enables us for the first time to grapple with change at the village level in all its complexity.The…

Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 1988
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication date: 4/1/1991
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 342
Size: 5.51" wide x 8.50" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English