| Chinese Local Elites and Patterns of Dominance |
| STUDIES ON CHINA |
| PREFACE |
| CONTRIBUTORS |
 | INTRODUCTION |
| • | Studies of the Local Elite |
| • | Questions and Concepts |
| • | Local Elites in Historical Context |
| • | Regional Variations in Chinese Local Elites |
| PART ONE LATE IMPERIAL ELITES |
 | One Family Continuity and Cultural Hegemony: The Gentry of Ningbo, 1368-1911 |
| Two Success Stories: Lineage and Elite Status in Hanyang County, Hubei, c. 1368-1949 |
| Three The Rise and Fall of the Fu-Rong Salt-Yard Elite: Merchant Dominance in Late Qing China |
| PART TWO LOCAL ELITES IN TRANSITION |
| Four From Comprador to County Magnate: Bourgeois Practice in the Wuxi County Silk Industry |
| Five Power, Legitimacy, and Symbol: Local Elites and the Jute Creek Embankment Case |
| Six Local Military Power and Elite Formation: the Liu Family of Xingyi County, Guizhou |
| PART THREE REPUBLICAN ELITES AND POLITICAL POWER |
| Seven Patterns of Power:Forty Years of Elite Politics in a Chinese County |
| Eight Mediation, Representation, and Repression: Local Elites in 1920s Beijing |
| PART FOUR VILLAGE ELITES AND REVOLUTION |
| Nine Corporate Property and ocal Leadership in the Pearl River Delta, 1898-1941 |
| Ten Elites and the Structures of Authority in the Villages of North China, 1900-1949 |
| Eleven Local Elites and Communist Revolution in the Jiangxi Hill Country |
| Concluding Remarks |
| Notes |
| GLOSSARY |
| BIBLIOGRAPHY |
| INDEX |