| Native Place, City, and Nation |
| Acknowledgments |
 | Chapter One Introduction The Moral Excellence of Loving the Group |
| • | The Idea of Native Place |
| • | Native-Place Divisions in Shanghai: The Surface of City Life |
| Native-Place Organization and Occupational Organization |
| • | Trade Associations |
| • | Handicraft Associations |
| • | Trade Unions |
| • | Laborers' Associations |
| • | The Terminology of Chinese Associations |
| Chapter Two Foreign Imperialism, Immigration and Disorder Opium War Aftermath and the Small Sword Uprising of 1853 |
| • | Immigrants in Shanghai before the Opium War |
| • | The Opening of Shanghai as a Treaty Port |
| • | Guangdong Bang in Shanghai: A Case Study |
| • | Troublesome Arrivals: Workers, Vagabonds and Boatmen |
| • | The Opium Trade: Bridge between Respectability and Criminality |
| • | Losing Control and Taking the City: The Small Sword Uprising |
| Chapter Three Community, Hierarchy and Authority Elites and Non-elites in the Making of Native-Place Culture during the Late Qing |
| • | Huiguan Business and the Huiguan Oligarchy |
| • | Encompassing the People |
| • | Righteousness and Reputation |
| Chapter Four Expansive Practices Charity, Modern Enterprise, the City and the State |
| • | Managerial Practices |
| • | Involvement in New Technological and Institutional Reform Projects |
| • | Economic Nationalism, Modern Enterprises and Cosmopolitanism |
| Chapter Five Native-Place Associations, Foreign Authority and Early Popular Nationalism |
| • | Foreign Reliance on Huiguan in the Maintenance of Settlement Order |
| • | The Politics of Conflict: The Ningbo Cemetery Riots |
| • | Early Nationalism and Developing Class Tensions |
| Chapter Six The Native Place and the Nation Anti-Imperialist and Republican Revolutionary Mobilization |
| • | Popular Anti-Imperialist Mobilization in the Last Years of the Qing |
| • | Native-Place Organization and Revolutionary Mobilization |
| Chapter Seven "Modern Spirit," Institutional Change and the Effects of Warlord Government Associations in the Early Republic |
| • | "Modern Spirit" and the Restructuring and Proliferation of Native-Place Organizations |
| • | Native-Place Burdens and Business in the Early Republican Period |
| Chapter Eight The Native Place and the State Nationalism, State Building and Public Maneuvering |
| • | New Culture, Old Habits: Native-Place Organization and the May Fourth Movement |
| • | Native-Place Associations in the Nanjing Decade |
| • | Public Maneuverings: Native-Place Associations between State and Society |
| Chapter Nine Conclusion Culture, Modernity and the Sources of National Identity |
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