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Bryna Goodman
Native Place, City, and Nation
Regional Networks and Identities in Shanghai, 1853–1937
$60.00, £42.95 hardcover
978-0-520-08917-4
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367 pages,
October 1995, Available worldwide
Categories: History; Asian History; China; Urban Studies
October 1995, Available worldwide
Categories: History; Asian History; China; Urban Studies
"Using a wide array of primary and secondary sources, Goodman has provided a carefully documented analysis of the effects of sentiment for native place over time (nearly a century) and in a specific and very important location (Shanghai). The book is a superb complement to general presentations of China's sociopolitical original orthography and pinyin romanization is extensive and very helpful to specialists, and is essential for nonspecialists. Underlying the detailed information about place, time, and peoples is a very insightful discussion of the terms 'traditional' and 'modern' . . . An important addition to any serious university or college collection on East Asia."—Choice
"Goodman describes the social organization by birthplace of Chinese immigrants to Shanghai, a traditional institution that persisted until the middle of the twentieth century."—Book News
"Goodman describes the social organization by birthplace of Chinese immigrants to Shanghai, a traditional institution that persisted until the middle of the twentieth century."—Book News
"A new look at China's urban culture during the early twentieth century. Erasing the dichotomy between tradition and modernity, the author examines the relationship between native-place sentiments and an emerging national identity."—Susan Mann, author of Local Merchants and the Chinese Bureaucracy, 1750-1950
"Bryna Goodman's work on native-place associations is one of the most important studies of Chinese social history to have appeared in the last ten years. It melds an ingeniously researched ethnography with a convincing narrative of urban history. The result is a highly original approach to the development of the modern Chinese city."—Philip A. Kuhn, author of Soulstealers: The Chinese Sorcery Scare of 1768
"Bryna Goodman's work on native-place associations is one of the most important studies of Chinese social history to have appeared in the last ten years. It melds an ingeniously researched ethnography with a convincing narrative of urban history. The result is a highly original approach to the development of the modern Chinese city."—Philip A. Kuhn, author of Soulstealers: The Chinese Sorcery Scare of 1768
This book explores the role of native place associations in the development of modern Chinese urban society and the role of native-place identity in the development of urban nationalism. From the late nineteenth to the early twentieth century, sojourners from other provinces dominated the population of Shanghai and other expanding commercial Chinese cities. These immigrants formed native place associations beginning in the imperial period and persisting into the mid-twentieth century. Goodman examines the modernization of these associations and argues that under weak urban government, native place sentiment and organization flourished and had a profound effect on city life, social order and urban and national identity.
Choice Outstanding Academic Book