Knowledge, Power, and Networks

Cécile Armand, Aix-Marseille University, completed her Ph.D. devoted to a spatial history of advertising in modern Shanghai at the École Normale Supérieure of Lyon, France (2017). She is the author of several articles on advertising in modern China and digital history and the creator of a digital research platform (https://madspace.org/). Christian Henriot, Aix-Marseille University, is the author and editor of several books on modern Chinese history, including Prostitution and Sexuality in Shanghai. A Social History, 1849-1949 (Cambridge UP, 2001, Scythe and the City. A Social History of Death in Shanghai (1865-1965) (2016, Stanford UP), and The Population of Shanghai (1865-1953). A Sourcebook (Brill, 2018). Sun Huei-min, Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, received her Ph.D. degree in history from National Taiwan University. Her research interests include socio-cultural history, legal history, urban history, and the history of education. She is the author of Institutional Transplantation: The Chinese Lawyers in Republican Shanghai (1912-1937) (in Chinese, Institute of Modern History, 2012).

• List of Figures and TablesAbbreviations1 Introduction: Knowledge, Power, and Networks — Elites in Transition in Modern ChinaChristian Henriot, Cécile Armand, and Sun Huei-min2 Who Are Elites? Elite Distinction and Who’s Who Publications in Early 20th-Century ChinaSun Huei-min3 X-Boorman: The Biographical Dictionary of Republican China in the Digital AgeCécile Armand and Christian Henriot4 Middling Elites: Middle Managers and Bank Professionals at the Shanghai Bank of China on the Eve of the Communist RevolutionBrett Sheehan5 Structures of Empowerment: A Network Exploration of Women Activists’ Collective Biographies in 20th-Century ChinaHenrike Rudolph6 “Service to the Empire and to the Community”: The British Women’s Association in Shanghai, 1921–51Ling-ling Lien7 Revolutionary Roads: An Integrative Analysis Utilizing a Chinese Biographical DatabaseMarilyn Levine8 Foreign Clubs with Chinese Flavor: The Rotary Club of Shanghai and the Politics of LanguageCécile Armand9 The American-Returned Students: Educational Networks and New Forms of Business in Early Republican ChinaPeter E. Hamilton10 Navigating between Political Authorities: Chinese Rockefeller Fellows in Biology and Chemistry and Their Career Trajectories from 1949 to 1966Yi-Tang LinIndex