Hankow
Douban
Conflict and Community in a Chinese City, 1796-1895
William Rowe
Sinossi
This second volume of a two-volume social history of Hankow focuses on the people of Hankow, in all their ethnic diversity, occupational variety, constant mobility, and social bonds.
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Introduction
Part I. The City
1. City people
2. Urban space
Part II. Community
3. Popular welfare
4. Public goods and public services
Part III. Conflict
5. Structures of conflict
6. Dangerous classes and laboring classes
7. True believers
Part IV. Control
8. Forces of order
9. Crisis and response
Conclusion
Notes
Selected bibliography
Character list
Index
