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This book explores the role of native place associations in the development of modern Chinese urban society and the role of native-place identity in the development of urban nationalism. From the late nineteenth to the early twentieth century, sojourners from other provinces dominated the population of Shanghai and other expanding commercial Chinese cities. These immigrants formed native place associations beginning in the imperial period and persisting into the mid-twentieth century. Goodman examines the modernization of these associations and argues that under weak urban government, native place sentiment and organization flourished and had a profound effect on city life, social order and urban and national identity.

Social networks --- Rural-urban migration --- East Asia --- Regions & Countries - Asia & the Middle East --- History & Archaeology --- History --- Shanghai (China) --- Social life and customs. --- Cities and towns, Movement to --- Country-city migration --- Migration, Rural-urban --- Rural exodus --- Networking, Social --- Networks, Social --- Social networking --- Social support systems --- Support systems, Social --- Migration, Internal --- Rural-urban relations --- Urbanization --- Interpersonal relations --- Cliques (Sociology) --- Microblogs --- chinese bureaucracy. --- chinese cities. --- chinese history. --- city life. --- commercial cities. --- customs. --- immigrants. --- immigration. --- local merchants. --- modern china. --- modern history. --- modernization. --- national identity. --- native place associations. --- native place identity. --- native place settlement. --- politics. --- shanghai. --- social history. --- social issues. --- social order. --- sociology. --- traditions. --- urban culture. --- urban government. --- urban history. --- urban nationalism. --- urban society.