商品簡介
Republican Shanghai was a patchwork of municipal governments with the interests of various states and empires at heart. It had no central government or religious authority, yet it functioned as a city. How? Oi (Chinese politics, Stanford U.) and Dillon (political studies, Bard College) have determined that a complex network of middlemen worked together across political and social boundaries to maintain the shape of republican Shanghai. They built the state and gave it an identity and developed relationships with every possible group and source of power, including that which was technically outside the law, and worked with social and political activists, the media, judicial authority, educational institutions, philanthropies, and transnational sources of support to keep the city going. The authors provide very interesting case studies of how the network operated, how the middlemen maintained their relationships, and how the outcome included an integrated educational, governance and welfare system. Annotation c2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Jean C. Oi is William Haas Professor of Chinese Politics and was Director of the Center for East Asian Studies at Stanford. Her publications include Rural China Takes Off: Institutional Foundations of Economic Reform (1999). She is also co-editor, with Andrew Walder, of Property Rights and Economic Reform in China (Stanford, 1999). Nara Dillon is Assistant Professor of Political Studies at Bard College.
