Abstract
Note on Wuxi county's administrative boundaries, commerical districts, and size Weights, measures and exchange rates 1. introduction: a tale of two Chinas 2. Markets and power in the late imperial era 3. Why Wuxi? merchant competition and the changing contours of Yangzi Delta Silk Production 4. Public sphere or private interest? Defending the Wuxi cocoon trade 5. Investors at risk in the Wuxi filature industry 6. Women in sericulture, or how gendered labor (re-)shaped peasant-family production 7. Imparting modernity: women and the politics of silk-industry reform 8. Success at last? Bourgeois practice and state intervention under the nationalists 9. Conclusion: peasants, industry, and the state Appendices Abbreviations Notes Bibliography Character list Index.
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