CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
1 Centers and Margins in Chinese History Sherman Cochran and Paul G. Pickowicz
Part I: Centers in Relation to Margins
2 Turning Prospectors into Settlers: Gold, Immigrant Miners and the Settlement of the Frontier in Late Qing Xinjiang Judd Kinzley
3 Cultivating Empire: Zuo Zongtang's Agriculture, Environment, and Reconstruction in the Late Qing Peter Lavelle
4 Confronting Indiana Jones: Chinese Nationalism, Historical Imperialism, and the Criminalization of Aurel Stein and the Raiders of Dunhuang, 1899-1944 Justin Jacobs
5 "A Dream Deferred": Obstacles to Legal Reform and Rights Reclamation in Early Republican China Jeremy Murray
6 Oil for the Center from the Margins Tai Wei Lim
7 A Rock and a Hard Place: Chinese Soldiers in Xinjiang Caught between Center and Periphery after 1949 Amy Kardos
Part II: Margins in Relation to Centers
8 Reform Is a Bonus: The Networking of Upper-Level Officials in the Last Decade of the Qing Dynasty Elya J. Zhang
9 Democracy Is in Its Details: The 1909 Provincial Assembly Elections and the Print Media David Cheng Chang
10 A Bulwark Never Failing: The Evolution of Overseas Chinese Education in French Indochina, 1900-1954 Tracy C. Barrett
11 "To Save Minnan, To Save Ourselves": The Southeast Asia Overseas Fujianese Home Village Salvation Movement of the 1920s and 1930s Soon Keong Ong
12 Phony Phoenixes: Comedy, Protest, and Marginality in Postwar Shanghai Paola Iovene
13 Rural Policy in Flux: Lai Ruoyu's Challenge to the Party Center in the Early 1950s Xiaojia Hou
List of Contributors
Index
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