1st Edition
Social Continuity and Rupture in Rural China The Huizhou Hyper-stability Structure
Volume 1: 1. Introduction: Literature Review and Research Methodology 2. The Internal Dynamics of the Villages Autonomy 3. The Normal Circumstances of Village Autonomy Volume 2: 1. The External Dynamics of Village Autonomy 2. The Memory and Reconstruction of Clans after the Collapse of the Internal Cycle 3. The Struggles of Village Autonomy after the Collapse of the External Cycle 4. The Breaking of the Internal and External Cycles and the Demise of Village Autonomy 5. Conclusion
Biography
Tang Lixing is a distinguished professor at China Academy of Art and a professor of history at Shanghai Normal University, China. He is a pioneering scholar of Anhui Studies in China. His research expertise includes late imperial and modern Chinese history, Chinese social history, and cultural history. His recent publications with Routledge also include Merchants and Society in Modern China: Rise of Merchant Groups.
