Contributors – vii
Introduction – 1
Part I: Unofficial Accounts – 15
1. Manchus as Ethnographic Subject in the Qing – 17
Mark C. Elliott
2. Fictional and Real-Life Rulers: Journey to the West and Sixteenth-Century Chinese Monarchs – 38
Richard Shek
3. The Disputation of the Body Snatchers: Scandal in Chinese Legal Culture – 58
Melissa Macauley
4. Spatial Decorum, Transgression, and Displacement in Shen Fu's Six Records from a Floating Life – 78
Ann Waltner
Part II: Politics in Economy – 103
5. Eastern Sichuan Coal Mines in the Late Qing – 105
Madeleine Zelin
6. Rural Commercialization, Polder Reclamation, and Social Transformation in Modern China – 123
Robert Y. Eng
7. "Native" and "Foreign": Discourses on Economic Nationalism and Market Practice in Twentieth-Century North China – 149
Linda Grove
Part III: Beyond the Binary – 167
8. Shards of Ming: Culture and Improvisation in Enterprises Great and Small – 169
Lionel M. Jenson
9. Terror and War at the Turn of Two Centuries: The Boxer Crisis Revisited – 192
Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom
Part IV: Enduring Networks – 211
10. The Culture of Patronage in Early Nineteenth-Century China: Ruan Yuan's Circle at Canton – 213
Jonathan Porter
11. The Zhigongtang in the United States, 1860–1949 – 231
Sue Fawn Chung
12. Two Generations of a Chinese Family – 250
Joseph W. Esherick
Part V: Contesting Narratives – 273
13. Beijing University as a Contested Symbol – 275
Timothy B. Weston
14. History in Modernity: The May Fourth Movement and Shanghai – 292
Wen-hsin Yeh
Index – 309
