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At the Crossroads of Empires: Middlemen, Social Networks, and State-Building in Republican Shanghai Nara Dillon
At the Crossroads of Empires: Middlemen, Social Networks, and State-Building in Republican Shanghai
Nara Dillon
Republican Shanghai was a heterogeneous city with no central institutions. Yet somehow it functioned coherently. What held the city together? The authors argue that networks of middlemen with boundless connections provided the glue.
312 pages
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | November 29, 2007 |
| ISBN13 | 9780804756198 |
| Publishers | Stanford University Press |
| Pages | 328 |
| Dimensions | 152 × 229 × 23 mm · 576 g |
| Editor | Dillon, Nara |
| Editor | Oi, Jean C. |