Town and Country in China

DAVID FAURE is a Lecturer in Modern Chinese History and Fellow, St Antony's College, Oxford. His most recent publications include, as editor, A Documentary History of Hong Kong, and as co-editor with Tao Tao Liu, Unity and Diversity: Local Cultures and Identities in China. - TAO TAO LIU is a Lecturer in Modern Chinese at the University of Oxford and Tutorial Fellow at Wadham College. He is co-editor with David Faure of Unity and Diversity: Local Cultures and Identities in China.

• List of Maps and Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction Marvelling at the Wonders of the Metropolis: Perceptions of Seventeenth-Century Chinese Cities in the Novel xingshi yinyuan zhuan ; D.Berg Town and Country Representation as Seen in Temple Fairs; Z.Shiyu What Weber Did Not Know: Towns and Economic Development in Ming and Qing China; D.Faure Village Identity in Rural North China: A Sense of Place in the Diary of Liu Dapeng; H.Harrison Factories in the Countryside: The Industrial Workforce and Social Division in Nantong County, 1895-1937; E.Köll Urban Superiority, Modernity, and Local Identity: A Think Piece on the Case of Shanghai; H.Lu Civil Society in Late Qing Suzhou; M.Min Representing the City: Shanghai and its Maps; C.V.Yeh Perceptions of City and Country in Republican Fiction; T.T.Liu Redefining the Market Town Through Festivals in South China; H.F.Siu Index