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Town and Country in
China
Identity and Perception
Edited by
David Faure
University Lecturer in Modern Chinese History
Fellow, St Antony's College
Oxford
and
Tao Tao Liu
University Lecturer in Modem Chinese
Tutorial Fellow, Wadham College
Oxford
in association with
Palgrave Macmillan
* Editorial matter and selection © David Faure and Tao Tao Liu 2002
Chapter 3 © David Faure 2002
Chapter 9 © Tao Tao Liu 2002
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Town and country in China :identity and perception I edited by
David Faure and Tao Tao Liu.
p. em.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. City and town life-China-History. 2. Country life-China
-History. 3. Sociology, Urban-China. 4. City planning-China
History. 5. China-Social policy. 6. China-Rural conditions. 7.
China-Politics and government. I. Faure, David. II. Liu, Tao Tao.
HT147.C48 T68 2001
307. 76'0951-dc21
2001021733
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
11 10 09 08 07 06 OS 04 03 02
Transferred to Digital Printing 2011
Contents
List of Maps and Illustrations vii
Acknowledgements viii
Notes on the Contributors ix
Introduction 1
1 Marvelling at the Wonders of the Metropolis: Perceptions
of Seventeenth-Century Chinese Cities in the Novel
Xingshi yinyuan zhuan 17
Daria Berg
2 Town and Country Representation as Seen in Temple Fairs 41
Zhao Shiyu
3 What Weber Did Not Know: Towns and Economic
Development in Ming and Qing China 58
David Faure
4 Village Identity in Rural North China: a Sense of Place in
the Diary of Liu Dapeng 85
Henrietta Harrison
5 Factories in the Countryside: the Industrial Workforce and
Social Division in Nantong County, 1895-1937 107
Elisabeth Koll
6 Urban Superiority, Modernity and Local Identity-a Think
Piece on the Case of Shanghai 126
HanchaoLu
7 Emergent Civil Society in the Late Qing Dynasty: the Case
ofSuzhou 145
MaMin
8 Representing the City: Shanghai and its Maps 166
Catherine Vance Yeh
9 Perceptions of City and Country in Modem Chinese Fiction
in the Early Republican Era 203
Tao Tao Liu
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10 Redefining the Market Town through Festivals in
South China 233
Helen F. Siu
Index 250
List of Maps and Illustrations
4.1 Taiyuan county, 1552 87
4.2 Jinyuan city 90
4.3 Taiyuan county, 1826 95
8.1 Shanghai in 1817 170
8.2 Shanghai and its suburbs, c. 1853 171
8.3 'The entire region of today's Shanghai', 1872 173
8.4 City and environs of Shanghai, 1862 176
8.5 Foreign settlement at Shanghai north of the
Yang Kang Pang Canal, 1855 179
8.6 Map of Shanghai in Darwent's Handbook for
Travellers and Residents, 1904 185
8.7 Feng Zhuoru and Xu Yuchang's 'Complete map
of Shanghai', 1875 186
8.8 Ernest Major's map of Shanghai, 1884 190
8.9 Shanghai Business Road Map, 1939 195
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Acknowledgements
The editors acknowledge with thanks financial support given by the
British Academy, the Universities' China Committee in London,
St Antony's College and the Davis Fund at the University of Oxford,
towards the Conference on Town and Country in China: Identity and
Perception, that was held at the Institute for Chinese Studies in Oxford on
18 and 19 April 1997. They are also grateful to Mrs Audrey Burrell for
copy-editing the manuscript.
Maps 8.4, 8. 7 and 8.8 have been reproduced by permission of the
British Library, whose shelfmarks given here as required, are Sec. 13.c 'City
and Environs of Shanghai, 1862', Feng Zhuoru and Xu Yuchang, (1875)
'Shanghaixian chengxiang zujie quantu', 15406 A 58 1875 and 15406 A
22 1884. Map 8.2 is reproduced by permission from All about Shanghai: a
Standard Guidebook, circa 1853, repr. Hong Kong: Oxford University Press,
1986.
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Notes on the Contributors
Daria Berg is Lecturer in Chinese Studies, University of Durham.
David Faure is University Lecturer in Modem Chinese History and
Fellow, St Antony's College, Oxford.
Henrietta Harrison is Lecturer in Chinese, University of Leeds.
Elisabeth Koll is Assistant Professor, Department of History, Case
Western Reserve University.
Hanchao Lu is Professor, School of History, Technology and Society,
Georgia Institute of Technology.
Tao Tao Liu is University Lecturer in Modem Chinese and Fellow,
Wadham College, Oxford.
Ma Min is Professor of History, Central China Normal University.
Helen F. Siu is Professor in Anthropology, Yale University.
Catherine Vance Yeh is a researcher at the Institute of Chinese Studies,
University of Heidelberg.
Zhao Shiyu is Professor of History, Beijing Normal University.
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