Of camel kings and other things : rural rebels against modernity in late imperial China
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| Author | Prazniak, Roxann
| | Pub. Location | Lanham, MD | Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield | | Date | 1999 | Phys. Desc. | xi, 305 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. | | Location | Dir. Office Gallery North | Call Number | HD1537.C5 P73 1999 |
Of camel kings and other things : rural rebels against modernity in late imperial China / Roxann Prazniak.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-299) and index.
Introduction: Narratives of Resistance and Problems of Suppressed Histories -- 1. Anti-New Policy Rural Activism in Historical Context: Taiping and Boxer Preludes -- 2. Laiyang, Shandong: Qu Shiwen and the Four Mountains -- Excerpt from Water Margin -- 3. Zunhua, Zhili: Camel King Wang at the Foot of the Great Wall -- Excerpt from The Romance of Three Kingdoms -- 4. Weiyuan, Sichuan: Heaven-Protected Liu Xiangting among the Red Lanterns -- Excerpt from Journey to the West -- 5. Lianzhou, Guangdong: The Greenwood/Tongmenghui Alliance -- 6. Chuansha, Jiangsu: Ding Fei and Her Vegetarian Sisterhood in Resistance to Reform -- Epilogue: A Place in the Twentieth Century. |
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