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Chinese Professionals and the Republican State: The Rise of Professional Associations in Shanghai, 1912–1937 (Cambridge Modern China Series) - Softcover

Book 2 of 12: Cambridge Modern China

Xu, Xiaoqun

 
9780521027892: Chinese Professionals and the Republican State: The Rise of Professional Associations in Shanghai, 1912–1937 (Cambridge Modern China Series)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0521027896 ISBN 13: 9780521027892
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2006

Synopsis

Xiaoqun Xu makes a compelling and original contribution to the study of China's modernization with this study of the rise of professional associations in Republican China, in their birthplace of Shanghai, and of their political and socio-cultural milieus. Xu addresses a central issue in China studies, the relationship between state and society, and proposes an alternative to the Western-derived concept of civil society. This book illuminates the multidimensional complexity of modernization and nationalism in twentieth-century China, and provides a concrete case for comparative studies of professionalization and class formation across cultures.

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Review

"In this book, the author examines an important, but overlooked, group in modern urban Chinese society, the middle class...the book is well written and well edited." The Historian

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
2006
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0521027896
ISBN 13 
9780521027892
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
348