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Index
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Ballad of the Qu Shiwen Uprising
Table of Contents
List of Tables
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Narratives of Resistance and Problems of Suppressed Histories
1 - Anti-New Policy Rural Activism in Historical Context:Taiping and Boxer Preludes
A Century of Rebellion, 1796–1911: Antigovernment and Antiforeign Issues in Rural Political Discourse
Structural and Fiscal Challenges of New Policy Reform: Rural Political Economy within National Modernist Policies
Notes
2 - Laiyang, Shandong: Qu Shiwen and the Four Mountains
Shandong Peninsula: Social and Economic Environment of Protest
Secular Rural Organization: Lianzhuanghui, the Federated Village Alliance
Transformations of Local Authority in the Post-Boxer Decade: Commercialization and County Reform Managers
Mobilizing Protest: From Petition to Seige
Contemporaneous Activism in Neighboring Counties: The Situations at Haiyang and Zhaoyuan
Conclusions
Notes
Shuihu zhuan - (Water Margin)
Excerpt
Notes
3 - Zunhua, Zhili: Camel King Wang at the Foot of the Great Wall
Popular Culture: The Moral and Political Economy of Rural Relations
Rise of Anti-New Policy Protest at Zunhua
Activism in Other Zhili Counties: Qian‘an, Yizhou, and Longyao
Conclusions
Notes
Sanguoyanyi - (The Romance of the Three Kingdoms)
Excerpt
Notes
4 - Weiyuan, Sichuan: Heaven-Protected Liu Xiangting among the Red Lanterns
Heterodoxy and Ethnicity: Sources of Antigovernment Activism in the Making of Rural Dissent
Weiyuan: Geography and Social Relations
Liu Xiangting’s Leadership: Gelaohui Networks
The “New Policy Road”: Census and Taxes
Modernized Military against Rural Dissent
Cases in Guangxi: Cenqi and Yongshun
Conclusions
Notes
Xiyouji - (Journey to the West)
Excerpts
Notes
5 - Lianzhou, Guangdong: The Greenwood/Tongmenghui Alliance
Missionaries and Merchants in the Making of Anti-New Policy Protest
Revolutionaries and Reformers: New Policy Roaders among Tongmenghui Members
Prelude to Protest: Competition among Merchant Firms and Increased Taxation Lianzhou, Guangdong, September 1910–January 1911
Conclusions
Notes
6 - Chuansha, Jiangsu: Ding Fei and Her Vegetarian Sisterhood in Resistance to Reform
Chuansha in the Yangzi Delta: Cotton Production and Shanghai Connections
Gender Relations: Women’s Oppression and Dissident Discourse
New Policy Reform at Chuansha: The Makings of Conflict
Character of the Chuansha Uprising: Its Organization and Logic
Nanhui, Jiangsu: March 1911
Conclusions
Notes
Epilogue: - A Place in the Twentieth Century
Appendix
GLOSSARY
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
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