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Another history : essays on China from a European perspective / Mark Elvin.

Title
Another history : essays on China from a European perspective / Mark Elvin.
Author
Elvin, Mark
Publication
Broadway, Australia : Wild Peony ; Honolulu, Hawaii : [Distributor] University of Hawaii Press, 1996.

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Description
iv, 389 p. : ill., maps; 22 cm.
Series Statement
University of Sydney East Asian series ; no. 10
Uniform Title
University of Sydney East Asian series no. 10.
Subject
  • 1900-1999
  • 1400-1500
  • 1500-2000
  • China > History
  • China > Politics and government > 20th century
  • China > Economic conditions
  • China > Intellectual life
Genre/Form
  • History
  • Aufsatzsammlung.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Ch. 1. The Last Thousand Years of Chinese History: Changing Patterns in Land Tenure -- Ch. 2. The High-Level Equilibrium Trap: The Causes of the Decline of Invention in the Traditional Chinese Textile Industries -- Ch. 3. Skills and Resources in Late Traditional China -- Ch. 4. Market Towns and Waterways: The County of Shanghai from 1480 to 1910 -- Ch. 5. The Gentry Democracy in Chinese Shanghai, 1905-1914 -- Ch. 6. The Administration of Shanghai, 1905-1914 -- Ch. 7. Mandarins and Millenarians: Reflections on the Boxer Uprising of 1899-1900 -- Ch. 8. Between the Earth and Heaven: Conceptions of the Self in China -- Ch. 9. Was There a Transcendental Breakthrough in China? -- Ch. 10. Female Virtue and the State in China -- Ch. 11. The Collapse of Scriptural Confucianism.
ISBN
0646204130
OCLC
  • 36424001
  • SCSB-12140922
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library