At the Crossroads of Empires: Middlemen, Social Networks, and State-Building in Republican Shanghai

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by  Nara Dillon, Jean C. Oi

at the crossroads
of empires
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At the Crossroads
of Empires
Middlemen, Social Networks,
and State-Building in Republican
Shanghai
Edited by NARA DILLON and JEAN C. OI
stanford university press
stanford, california
2008
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At the crossroads of empires : middlemen, social networks, and state-building
in republican Shanghai / edited by Nara Dillon and Jean C. Oi.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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1. Social networks—China—Shanghai—History—20th century. 2. Pluralism
(Social sciences)—China—Shanghai—History—20th century. 3. Shanghai
(China)—History—20th century. 4. Shanghai (China)—Politics and
government—20th century. I. Dillon, Nara. II. Oi, Jean Chun.
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To the memory of Frederic Wakeman, Jr., 1937–2006
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Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Contributors xi
Part One. Introduction
1. Middlemen, Social Networks, and State-Building in
Republican Shanghai 3
Nara Dillon and Jean C. Oi
Part Two. Middlemen: Compradors, Gangsters, and Political Activists
2. Huang Yanpei and the Chinese Society of Vocational Education in
Shanghai Networking 25
Wen-hsin Yeh
3. Wang Yiting in the Social Networks of 1910s–1930s Shanghai 45
Kuiyi Shen
4. Du Yuesheng, the French Concession, and Social Networks in
Shanghai 65
Brian G. Martin
Part Three. Network Dynamics: Political Movements and
Social Networks
5. Popular Protest in Shanghai, 1919–1927: Social Networks,
Collective Identities, and Political Parties 87
Elizabeth J. Perry
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viii Contents
6. The National Salvation Movement and Social Networks in
Republican Shanghai 110
Parks M. Coble
7. Politics of Trial, the News Media, and Social Networks in
Nationalist China: The New Life Weekly Case, 1935 131
Sei Jeong Chin
Part Four. Networks in Action: Charity and Welfare in Republican Shanghai
8. What Is In a Network? Local, Personal, and Public Loyalties in
the Context of Changing Conceptions of the State and Social
Welfare 155
Bryna Goodman
9. The Politics of Philanthropy: Social Networks and Refugee Relief
in Shanghai, 1932–1949 179
Nara Dillon
10. Cosmopolitan Connections and Transnational Networks 206
Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom
Notes 225
Bibliography 267
Index 293
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Acknowledgments
This volume was made possible by the generous support of Stanford’s
Center for Chinese Studies (CEAS). Nara Dillon and Kuiyi Shen were
CEAS’s fi rst recipients of its newly established Chinese Studies Postdoc-
toral Fellowships in 2001. The idea for the conference and the volume
that followed were conceived in conversations between Nara, Kuiyi,
and Jean Oi, who was CEAS director at the time. The idea was to have
Shanghai scholars revisit their previous research with our questions
about Shanghai’s changing social networks in mind. We thank Kuiyi
for his invaluable help in organizing the conference.
Stanford’s Asian Pacifi c Research Center in the Freeman Spogli Insti-
tute for International Studies provided staff support and excellent con-
ference facilities. In addition to our volume contributors, we also want
to thank Julia Andrews, who was among our original conference paper
writers. We want to give special thanks to our invited discussants—
Mark Granovetter, Richard Vinograd, and Andrew Walder—for their
comparative and China-specifi c insights and questions that kept our
discussion in perspective and sharpened our thinking. We feel espe-
cially fortunate also to have had Frederic Wakeman as an invited dis-
cussant. We are greatly saddened to learn of his passing as this volume
goes to press. It is with respect and admiration that we dedicate this vol-
ume to him.
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