Town and Country in China Identity and

Contemporary scholars place the rural-urban divide at the center of individual identity in China. This interdisciplinary collection traces the development and distinctions between urban and rural life and the effect on the Chinese sense of identity from the 16th century to the present day. It provides a daunting example of the influence that political ideology may exert on an individual's sense of place.

David Faure is Lecturer in Modern Chinese History and a Fellow at St. Antony's College, Oxford.

Tao Tao Liu is Lecturer in Modern Chinese History, University of Oxford and Tutorial Fellow at Wadham College.

List of Maps and Illustrations

vii

Acknowledgements

viii

Notes on the Contributors

ix

Introduction

1

(16)

Marvelling at the Wonders of the Metropolis: Perceptions of Seventeenth-Century Chinese Cities in the Novel

17

(24)

Xingshi yinyuan zhuan

Daria Berg

Town and Country Representation as Seen in Temple Fairs

41

(17)

Zhao Shiyu

What Weber Did Not Know: Towns and Economic Development in Ming and Qing China

58

(27)

David Faure

Village Identity in Rural North China: a Sense of Place in the Diary of Liu Dapeng

85

(22)

Henrietta Harrison

Factories in the Countryside: the Industrial Workforce and Social Division in Nantong County, 1895--1937

107

(19)

Elisabeth Koll

Urban Superiority, Modernity and Local Identity -- a Think Piece on the Case of Shanghai

126

(19)

Hanchao Lu

Emergent Civil Society in the Late Qing Dynasty: the Case of Suzhou

145

(21)

Ma Min

Representing the City: Shanghai and its Maps

166

(37)

Catherine Vance Yeh

Perceptions of City and Country in Modern Chinese Fiction in the Early Republican Era

203

(30)

Tao Tao Liu

Redefining the Market Town through Festivals in South China

233

(17)

Helen F. Siu

Index

250

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Town and Country in China Identity and Perception

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