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The Chinese City Between Two Worlds tidited by Mark Elvin and G. William Skinner r Ebin and Skinner THE CHINESE CITY between TWO WORLDS Stanford nnijQ HT M .TAP: r(J THE CHINESE CITY BETWEEN TWO WORLDS Contributors David D. Buck Susan Mann Jones Mark Elvin Robert A. Kapp Stephan Feuchtwang Rhoads Murphey Bernard Gallin Edward J. M. Rhoads Rita S. Gallin Alden Speare, Jr. Shirley S. Garrett Irene B. Taeuber Winston Hsieh THE CHINESE CITY BETWEEN TWO WORLDS Edited by MARK ELVIN and G. W ILLIAM SKINNER Stanford University Press, Stanford, California 1974 Sponsored by the Subcommittee on Research on Chinese Society of the Joint Committee on Contemporary China of the Social Science Research Council and the American Council of Learned Societies, 1971-72 Morton h. fried, Chairman IRENE B. TAEUBER EZRA F. VOGEL JOHN CREIGHTON CAMPBELL, Staff Previously published in this series Maurice Freedman, ed., Family and Kinship in Chinese Society John Wilson Lewis, ed., The City in Communist China W. E. Willmott, ed., Economic Organization in Chinese Society Stanford University Press, Stanford, California © 1974 by the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University Printed in the United States of America isbn 0-8047-0853-3 lc 73-89858 Preface In 1968-69 the Subcommittee on Research on Chinese Society—financed by the Carnegie Corporation of New York, administered by the Social Science Research Council (New York), and overseen by the Joint Com mittee on Contemporary China of that Council and the American Acad emy of Learned Societies—devoted two of its research conferences to the Chinese city. In the wake of these conferences, the Subcommittee planned three volumes, of which this is the second to appear. The first, The City in Communist China (edited by John Wilson Lewis), was pub lished in 1971; the third, The City in Late Imperial China (edited by myself), is in press. These three volumes in turn form part of a larger series, Studies in Chinese Society, on which particulars are given oppo site. Eight of the papers in this volume were presented in preliminary form at a conference held in St. Croix, Virgin Islands, in December-January 1968-69. (This particular conference was cosponsored by the Subcom mittee on Chinese Government and Politics, also under the jurisdiction of the Joint Committee on Contemporary China, in consideration of the many conference papers that treated political aspects of urban life in the People’s Republic of China.) In addition to myself and the authors of these eight papers—David D. Buck, Mark Elvin, Stephan Feucht- wang, Bernard Gallin, Shirley S. Garrett, Winston Hsieh, Rhoads Mur- phey, and the late Irene B. Taeuber—the following China specialists attended the conference and participated in discussions relevant to the volume: Jerome A. Cohen, John Philip Emerson, Edward Friedman, Paul F. Harper, Ying-mao Kau, John Wilson Lewis, Victor H. Li, John C. Pelzel, Janet W. Salaff, Ezra F. Vogel, and Richard W. Wilson. Nor ton E. Long and Charles Tilly, who attended the conference as discus sants, helped us place aspects of China’s changing cities in the compara tive context of urban development. Sophie Sa Winckler and Edwin A. Winckler, our rapporteurs, produced an incisively organized analytical record of the conference proceedings that greatly facilitated subsequent editorial work. An earlier version of the paper by Rhoads Murphey was published in 1970 (Michigan Papers in Chinese Studies, No. 7). The papers by Susan Mann Jones, Robert A. Kapp, Edward J. M. Rhoads, and Alden Speare, Jr. were later solicited to supplement the eight St. Croix papers. For the unfortunate delay in the publication of this volume, I offer my heartfelt apologies to its contributors and readers alike. The Chinese Society Bibliography Project, also sponsored by the Subcommittee on Research on Chinese Society, took all the time I had from 1969 until its completion in 1973. That the present volume is ready even now is due largely to my good fortune in obtaining Mark Elvin’s invaluable ser vices as coeditor. He has had primary responsibility for the more his torical papers and the Introduction, I for the more sociological papers and the maps. This book is concerned with social process and institutional change in modern Chinese cities. A central concern is the transformation and modernization of traditional urban forms. Because relevant papers on the People’s Republic were included in The City in Communist China, the historical period covered here extends beyond 1949 only in the case of Taiwan. The Subcommittee originally intended that the analyses of traditional urban institutions and processes in The City in Late Imperial China should provide a baseline for the treatment of urban transforma tion in the present volume, which in turn would provide a starting point for the analyses of mainland cities in The City in Communist China. Thus it is particularly unfortunate that publication delays have caused the three books to appear .in reverse chronological order. In conse quence, continuities as well as discontinuities are underplayed and un deranalyzed—a deficiency that I hope to remedy in part in subsequent publications. The endpaper maps show China’s cities as of 1930. The three frames— North China at the front with Manchuria overleaf, and South China at the back—cover virtually all of agrarian China. Within these frames, all capitals of counties and higher-level administrative units are plotted, together with the largest and most important nonadministrative cities. These categories also include all cities with the status in 1930 of munici pality or treaty port, the treaty ports being indicated by red symbols. (A key to the symbols will be found overleaf from the back endpaper.)
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