From Resistance to Participation: Clanship and Urban Modernization in the Wuyi Rural Market Towns During the Republican Era

Studies on urban modernization in early-twentieth-century South China usually attribute rural development only to the government and some returned overseas Chinese. In Wuyi, a region in South China, the traditional clanship that dominated rural society is usually considered to have slowed down urban...

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Main Authors: Tung-Yiu Stan Lai, Weijen Wang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The International Academic Forum 2014-09-01
Series:IAFOR Journal of Arts & Humanities
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Online Access:https://iafor.org/journal/iafor-journal-of-arts-and-humanities/volume-2-issue-1/article-3/