Chinese elites and political change : Zhejiang Province in the early twentieth century / R. Keith Schoppa. Schoppa, R. Keith, 1943- author.

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1982.

viii, 280 pages : maps ; 24 cm.

This book examines the social backgrounds, public activities, careers, and decision-making of local and provincial elites. In the first three decades of the century, they experienced substantial personal and communitarian development; it was the structures and processes developed by these elites that subsequent regimes--Guomindang, Japanese, or Communist--had to build upon and adapt. The author divides the counties of Zhejiang Province into four zones according to level of political and economic development and analyzes the complex processes of remolding society at the local and provincial levels.