Goodman, Bryna, “The Locality as Microcosm of the Nation? Native Place Networks and Early Urban Nationalism in China” (1995)

Title : “The Locality as Microcosm of the Nation? Native Place Networks and Early Urban Nationalism in China”

Author(s) : Goodman, Bryna

Year : 1995

Type : Journal article

Subject : History

Keywords : social;political;elites;nationalism;identity;

Journal : Modern China,

Volume : 21

Number : 4

Start page : 387

End page : 419

Language:Name : English

Support : Print

Abstract : Explores the interplay between native place or local-origin ties and the larger Chinese corporate identity in the development of nationalism among sojourning communities in Shanghai in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The institutional basis for popular nationalism reveals the importance of preexisting subethnic ties and institutions. Thus conflicts over landholding between native place associations and Westerners paved the way for anti-imperialist movements in the first years of the 20th century and the mass mobilizations of the Republican era. While native place associations remained crucial to urban social mobilization, they were joined by new nationalist political organizations which would increasingly assume leadership of political movements.