Author: Rankin, Mary Backus
Title: Elite Activism and Political Transformation in China: Zhejiang Province, 1865-1911
Description: Stanford, Stanford University Press, (1986). orig.cloth. 22x14cm, xviii,427 pp.. Textual maps & tables. Binding corner bumps. Good. In a rubbed & torn dustwrapper. ¶ Contents: Introduction; Socioeconomic Contexts of Public Management: Scholarship, Rebellion, & Trade; The Post-Taiping Reconstruction: The Rise of the Public Sphere; Beyond Local Boundaries: The Extension of Public Activism; The Reorientation of Elite Management; 1895-1901; The Changing Structure of Public Management: The Qing New Policies in Zhejiang; Political Conflict: Railway & Constitutionalist Movements in Zhejiang; Conclusion; Appendices.

Keywords: Historical Sociology, Qing China Elites, Elite East Asia, Political History, Social Mobility, Zhejiang Economics, Chekiang Province, Railway Movement, Politics Economic