Text and power: A study on local gazetteers of
Wanzai County of Jiangxi Province from the Qing Dynasty to the Republic
of China

doi:10.1007/s11462-009-0017-8

Front. Hist. China

2009, Vol. 4

Issue (3) : 426-459 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11462-009-0017-8

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Text and power: A study on local gazetteers of Wanzai County of Jiangxi Province from the Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China

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Abstract As the main literature of socio-economic history, local gazetteers display the dynamic process of local socio-economic structuring and reflect local conflicts among various interest groups. Focusing on local gazetteers in Wanzai County of Jiangxi Province from the Qing to the Republic, this essay shows how local literati played an active role in constructing their local community. These gazetteers reflected the complicated power relations, especially the conflict between the natives and immigrants, and they themselves became the important part of the process of local power reproduction and culture construction.

Keywords the Qing Dynasty the Republic of China Wanzai County Jiangxi Province local gazetteer text power

Issue Date: 05 September 2009

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. Text and power: A study on local gazetteers of Wanzai County of Jiangxi Province from the Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China[J]. Front. Hist. China,2009, 4(3): 426-459.

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