TY - BOOK AU - Belsky,Richard TI - Localities at the center: native place, space, and power in late imperial Beijing T2 - Harvard East Asian monographs SN - 0674019563 AV - HT147.C6 B45 2005 U1 - 307.760951156 22 PY - 2005/// CY - Cambridge, Mass. PB - Harvard University Asia Center KW - Sociology, Urban KW - China KW - Associations, institutions, etc KW - Beijing KW - History KW - Rural-urban relations KW - Community development, Urban KW - City and town life KW - Country life KW - Kinship KW - Social conditions KW - 1644-1912 N1 - Col. map on lining papers; Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-309) and index; Placing this work -- Native-place lodges beyond Beijing -- The particular characteristics of Beijing scholar-official native-place lodges -- Huiguan in space -- Huiguan as space -- Native-place rituals -- The corporate character of lodge property -- State-lodge cooperation in the maintenance of order -- The articulation of regional interests in Beijing -- Native place and the Reform Movement of the 1890s -- Beijing Huiguan in the twentieth century -- Conclusion. Postscript : Huiguan sites today ER -