Of Camel Kings and Other Things Rural Rebels Against Modernity in Late Imperial China

by Prazniak, Roxann

• ISBN13: 9780847690077
• ISBN10: 0847690075
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-01-14
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

From the perspective of village activists across China, this book tells the stories of farmers and rural laborers who raised the banner of opposition to constitutional reform during the first decade of the twentieth century. Using county archives-including oral histories-as well as memoirs, periodical literature, missionary records, and official documents both Chinese and foreign, Of Camel Kings and Other Things constructs, from fragmented sources, a coherent historical view vital to our understanding of China's twentieth-century crises and the dilemmas of modernity itself.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Narratives of Resistance and Problems of Suppressed Histories	p. 1
Anti-New Policy Rural Activism in Historical Context: Taiping and Boxer Preludes	p. 15
Laiyang, Shandong: Qu Shiwen and the Four Mountains	p. 45
Excerpt from Water Margin	p. 93
Zunhua, Zhili: Camel King Wang at the Foot of the Great Wall	p. 97
Excerpt from The Romance of Three Kingdoms	p. 127
Weiyuan, Sichuan: Heaven-Protected Liu Xiangting among the Red Lanterns	p. 131
Excerpt from Journey to the West	p. 177
Lianzhou, Guangdong: The Greenwood/Tongmenghui Alliance	p. 181
Chuansha, Jiangsu: Ding Fei and Her Vegetarian Sisterhood in Resistance to Reform	p. 213
Epilogue: A Place in the Twentieth Century	p. 257
Appendix	p. 269
Glossary	p. 273
Bibliography	p. 281
Index	p. 301
About the Author	p. 305
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