Frontiers of History in China

Editors Di Wang University of Macau Zujie Yuan University Associate Editors Peter J. Carroll Northwestern University Book Review Editors Ning Chang Academia Sinica Huaiyu Chen Arizona State University Xiaolu Wu of Political Science and Law Zheng Fu Editorial Board Cynthia Brokaw Brown University Kai-wing Chow University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Prasenjit Duara National University of Singapore Joe Dennis University of Wisconsin-Madison Benjamin Elman Princeton University

Mark Elliot Harvard University Joseph W. Esherick University of California, San Diego Antonia Finnane University of Melbourne Zhaoguang Ge Chongyue Jiang Beijing Normal University Christian Lamouroux L'École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales Bozhong Li Hsiao-ti Li City University of Hong Kong Zhitian Luo Peter Perdue Yale University Elizabeth J. Perry Harvard University

Michael Szonyi Harvard University William T. Rowe Johns Hopkins University Paolo Santangelo Sapienza University of Rome Angela Schottenhammer Ghent University Helen Siu Yale University Mathew Sommer Stanford University Nicolas Standaert Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Ann Waltner University of Minnesota Q. Edward Wang Rowan University Xi Wang Peking University Wen-hsin Yeh University of California, Berkeley Madeleine Zelin Columbia University Guogang Zhang Tsinghua University Yifeng Zhao Northeast Normal University

Managing Editor Review Editor Limeng Weng Weiwei Zhou Copy Editor Editorial Assistant Benjamin Aippersbach Bo Zhou

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