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