Of Camel Kings and Other Things: Rural Rebels Against Modernity in Late Imperial China

by Roxann Prazniak

Book Overview

From the perspective of village activists across China, this book tells the stories of farmers and rural laborers who raised the banner of opposition to constitutional reform during the first decade of the twentieth century. Using county archives-including oral histories-as well as memoirs, periodical literature, missionary records, and official documents both Chinese and foreign, Of Camel Kings and Other Things constructs, from fragmented sources,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0847690075
• ISBN13: 9780847690077
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.9"