Nara Dillon and Jean C. Oi (eds.) 2008: At the Crossroads of Empires: Middlemen, Social

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Networks, and State-Building in Republican Shanghai. Stanford: Stanford University Press. The idiosyncrasies of Shanghai's colorful history continue to fascinate China scholars. Republic Shanghai is perhaps the most intensively studied city in China. Earlier and recent books cover topics such as the emergence of a new urban culture (Lee, 1999), cultural history (Yeh, 2007), and the city's encounters with international forces (Wasserstrom, 2009). This book again pulls together well-known scholars on Chinese history to examine the social networks that connect various segments of society.