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Cooperation Networks and Actors in Semi-Colonial China, 1860-1911

Cover Journal of Modern Chinese History, No. 2

Cover Journal of Modern Chinese History, No. 2

Mechthild Leutner – 2008

This paper focuses on “cooperation networks” for the provision of public goods and services as a specific form of governance in late imperial China. While concentrating on differing forms of local self‐regulation at the end of the Qing dynasty, the article pinpoints several actors involved in the cooperation networks and (re)classifies them along the continuum of “public” and “private.” In addition to state and non‐state actors, the players included semi‐state or hybrid actors with profound network advantages who played a crucial role in the provision of governance services, as well as colonial and transnational actors who occasionally took part in this cooperation. To contextualize these actors and illustrate their modes of interaction, this paper will describe cooperation networks established for the provision of disaster relief and education in local society in late Qing China. In so doing, this paper also will question participants' motives and describe their personal gains, as well as the accumulation of symbolic capital as major incentives.

Title
Cooperation Networks and Actors in Semi-Colonial China, 1860-1911
Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Location
London
Keywords
Research Project D5
Date
2008
Appeared in
Journal of Modern Chinese History, No. 2, 147-165.
Language
eng
Type
Text