《中国文化面貌新探》

1Introduction1

Part Ⅰ The Operation of Cultural Universalism in Historical Context21

2The Chinese Emperor's Informal Empire:Religion and the Incorporation of Local Society in the Ming21

3 From the Qiang Barbarians to the Qiang Nationality:The Making of a New Chinese Boundary43

4 Status and Role of the Musicians in Traditional China81

Part Ⅱ The Rise ofNationalism and the Transition to Nation-State91

5Administration and Autonomy:A History of Bureaucratic Provincialism in 20th Century China91

6 The Role of the Periphery in Chinese Nationalism133

7 Local Worlds：The Poetics and Politics of the Native Place in Modern China161

Part Ⅲ Regiona l Division and Incipient Nationalism in Modern Context201

8Contrasting Rural Reform in North versus South China201

9 Economic Integration and the Transformation of Civil Society in Taiwan,Hong Kong,and South China221

10 The Real Community under Imagined States:The Socio-economic Transformation and Rise of the New Taiwan Consciousness in Contemporary Taiwan253

11 Imagining a Postmodern China?--Exercising the Geographical Imagination265

Index329