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

by Prasenjit Duara

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804718881
• ISBN13: 9780804718882
• Release Date: April 1991
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 340 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 8.5"