Table of Contents:
  • Late imperial elites. Family continuity and cultural hegemony : the gentry of Ningbo, 1368-1911 / Timothy Brook
  • Success stories : lineage and elite status in Hanyang County, Hubei, c. 1368-1949 / William T. Rowe
  • The rise and fall of the Fu-Rong salt-yard elite : merchant dominance in late Qing China / Madeleine Zelin
  • Local elites in transition. From comprador to county magnate : bourgeois practice in the Wuxi County silk industry / Lynda S. Bell
  • Power, legitimacy, and symbol : local elites and the Jute Creek embankment case / R. Keith Schoppa
  • Local military power and elite formation : the Liu family of Xingyi County, Guizhou / Edward A. McCord
  • Republican elites and political power. Patterns of power : forty years of elite politics in a Chinese county / Lenore Barkan
  • Mediation, representation, and repression : local elites in 1920s Beijing / David Strand
  • Village elites and revolution. Corporate property and local leadership in the Pearl River Delta, 1898-1941 / Rubie S. Watson.
  • (cont.) Elites and the structures of authority in the villages of North China, 1900-1949 / Prasenjit Duara
  • Local elites and communist revolution in the Jiangxi Hill Country / Stephen C. Averill
  • Concluding remarks / Mary Backus Rankin and Joseph W. Esherick.