- Preface
- Author’s Note on Conventions for a Omanizations and Characters
- Introduction: The Idea of Local Self-Government in the Age of Revolution
- I. Setting the Scene, 1902–1906
- Zhao Erxun’s Search for Local Leaders in Shanxi
- Yuan Shikai’s Foreign Model for China
- II. Localism, Centralism, and Provincialism,
1906–1908
- Local Elites in Corporatism’s Realm
- The Center Readies its Arsenal
- Provincial Officials Channel Elite Activism
- III. State and Society Unravelling, 1909–1911
- Local Councils in China
- Qing Policy, Rural China, and Elite Factions in the Age of Constitutionalism
- Appendix A. Late-Qing Government Gazettes and Serial Compilations
- Appendix B. Provincial and Metropolitan Reports on Constitutional Reforms, 1909–1911
- Appendix C. The Jiading County Council Members
- Abbreviations Used in the Notes and Select Bibliography
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Documents
- Archival and Published Sources
- Character List
- Index
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Harvard East Asian Monographs 161
China’s Local Councils in the Age of Constitutional Reform, 1898–1911
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Publication Date: 09/04/1995