Chinese modernity and the peasant path : semicolonialism in the northern Yangzi Delta /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Walker, Kathy Le Mons
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 1999.
Subjects:	Peasants > China > Yangtze River Delta > History. Yangtze River Delta (China) > Social conditions. Yangtze River Delta (China) > Economic conditions.

Table of Contents:

Agrarian class relations and peasant history in the Southern Yangzi Delta during the Ming
The view from the periphery: Tongzhou and the Northern Delta
Historical trends during the Qing
Shanghai, cotton cloth, and the shaping of Nantong's modern merchant elite
Remaking local power: Zhang Jian's self-reliant path
Extending the sway of commercial capital
The politics of the peasant and the modernist paths in the late Qing-early republican years
Constituting "semicolonial capitalisms": modern landlordism, commercial farming, and rural labor
Subproletarianization in the industrial districts
Conclusion: semicolonialism and the peasant path.