Chinese Modernity and the Peasant Path: Semicolonialism in the Northern Yangzi Delta

by Kathy Walker

This ambitious work traces a social history of semicolonialism in late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century China. It takes as its central concern the intertwining of two antagonistic forces: elite constructions of modernity shaped globally, and an alternate line of peasant resistance and development. Nantong county and the northern portion of the commercially advanced Yangzi Delta form its focal points. Lying in the hinterland of and connected...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804729328
• ISBN13: 9780804729321
• Release Date: April 1999
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 348 Pages
• Weight: 1.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.6"