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At the Crossroads of Empires: Middlemen, Social Networks, and State-Building in Republican Shanghai

At the Crossroads of Empires: Middlemen, Social Networks, and State-Building in Republican Shanghai

Dillon, Nara
Oi, Jean C.

Hardcover

Chinese History

ISBN10: 0804756198
ISBN13: 9780804756198
Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr
Published: Nov 29 2007
Pages: 328
Weight: 1.27
Height: 0.92 Width: 6.40 Depth: 9.28
Language: English

To a degree uncommon in among Chinese cities, Republican Shanghai had no center. Its territory was divided among three (sometimes more) municipal governments integrated into various national states and empires. No government building or religious institution gave Shanghai a center. Yet amidst deep cleavages, the city functioned as a coherent whole. What held Shanghai together? The authors' answer is that a group of middlemen with myriad connections across political and social boundaries created networks that held Republican Shanghai together.

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