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• The Medieval Chinese Oligarchy (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, c1977), by David G. Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Chinese Local Elites and Patterns of Dominance (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984), ed. by Joseph W. Esherick (HTML at UC Press)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Elite Discourse and Racism (Newbury Park, CA et al: Sage Publications, c1993), by Teun A. van Dijk (PDF at discourses.org)
• Discovering National Elites: A Manual of Methods for Discovering the Leadership of a Society and Its Vulnerabilities to Propaganda, by Alfred De Grazia, contrib. by Paul Deutschmann and Floyd Hunter (HTML at grazian-archive.com)
• Nobility and Analogous Traditional Elites in the Allocutions of Pius XII, by Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira (HTML with commentary at tfp.org)

• Nation Work: Asian Elites and National Identities (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2000), ed. by Timothy Brook and Andre Schmid (page images at HathiTrust)

• European Elites and Ideas of Empire, 1917-1957 (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, c2016), by Dina Gusejnova
  • PDF with commentary at oapen.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Provincial Families of the Renaissance: Private and Public Life in the Veneto (originally published 1996; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by James S. Grubb (multiple formats with commentary at Project Muse)

• Honored Citizens of Barcelona: Patrician Culture and Class Relations, 1490-1714, by James S. Amelang (PDF files at LIBRO)

• From East Germans to Germans?: The New Postcommunist Elites (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1999), by Jennifer A. Yoder (page images at HathiTrust)

• Rhetoric and Ritual in Colonial India: The Shaping of a Public Culture in Surat City, 1852-1928 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Douglas E. Haynes (HTML at UC Press)

• Deepening Democracy in Latin America (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c1998), ed. by Kurt von Mettenheim and James M. Malloy (page images at Pitt)

• The Culture of Sectarianism: Community, History, and Violence in Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Lebanon (Berkeley : University of California Press, 2000), by Ussama Makdisi (HTML at UC Press)

• Man to Man: Desire, Homosociality, and Authority in Late-Roman Manhood (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2014), by Mark Masterson (PDF with commentary at Ohio State)

• A Nation of Empire: The Ottoman Legacy of Turkish Modernity, by Michael E. Meeker (HTML at UC Press)

• The Colonial Elite of Early Caracas: Formation and Crisis, 1567-1767 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989), by Robert J. Ferry (HTML at UC Press)

• The Colonial Elite of Early Caracas: Formation and Crisis, 1567-1767 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989), by Robert J. Ferry (HTML at UC Press)

• Reed Town, Japan: A Study in Community Power Structure and Political Change (originally published 1974; open access edition Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2019), by Yasumasa Kuroda (PDF and Epub at Hawaii)

• The Negro Leadership Class (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, c1963), by Daniel C. Thompson, contrib. by Martin Luther King (page images at HathiTrust)

• Participatory Politics: Next-Generation Tactics to Remake Public Spheres (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2014), by Elisabeth Soep (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)
• Public Leadership: Perspectives and Practices (2008), ed. by Paul 't Hart and John Uhr (PDF with commentary at ANU E Press)

• African Youth on the Information Highway: Participation and Leadership in Community Development, ed. by Osita Ogbu and Paschal Mihyo (PDF and HTML with commentary at idrc.ca)

• No Straight Lines: Local Leadership and the Path from Government to Governance in Small Cities (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, c2018), ed. by Terry Kading (PDF files at University of Calgary)

• The Workshop for Morality: The Islamic Creativity of Pesantren Daarut Tauhid in Bandung, Java (2008), by Dindin Solahudin (multiple formats with commentary at ANU E Press)

• From Revolutionary Cadres to Party Technocrats in Socialist China (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Hong Yung Lee (HTML at UC Press)

• Critical Han Studies: The History, Representation, and Identity of China's Majority (Berkeley et al.: University of California Press, c2012), ed. by Thomas S. Mullaney, James Leibold, Stéphane Gros, and Eric Vanden Bussche (HTML and PDF with commentary at UC Press)
• Analysis of the Classes in Chinese Society, by Mao Zedong (HTML at marxists.org)

• The Chinese Gentry: Studies on Their Role in Nineteenth-Century Chinese Society (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1955), by Zhongli Zhang (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Chinese Beggars' Den: Poverty and Mobility in an Underclass Community (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c1988), by David C. Schak (page images at Pitt)

• A Chinese Beggars' Den: Poverty and Mobility in an Underclass Community (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c1988), by David C. Schak (page images at Pitt)

• The Awakening of China (Chicago: Daily Worker Pub. Co., c1926), by James H. Dolsen
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Schools Into Fields and Factories: Anarchists, the Guomindang, and the National Labor University in Shanghai, 1927-1932 (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1991), by Ming K. Chan and Arif Dirlik (page images at HathiTrust)

• China: A Country Study (fourth edition, 1988), ed. by Robert L. Worden, Andrea Matles Savada, and Ronald E. Dolan (multiple formats at loc.gov)
• The Chinese Empire: A Sequel to "Recollections of a Journey Through Tartary and Thibet" (new edition; London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1859), by Evariste Régis Huc (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Middle Kingdom: A Survey of the Geography, Government, Literature, Social Life, Arts, and History of the Chinese Empire and its Inhabitants (revised edition, 2 volumes; New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1913), by S. Wells Williams
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• My Chinese Note Book (New York: E. P. Dytton; London: Methuen, c1904), by Susan Mary Keppel Townley
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Oldest and the Newest Empire: China and the United States (Pittsburgh: R. S. Davis and Co., 1877), by William Speer (multiple formats at Google)
• The Story of China (c1922), by R. Van Bergen (illustrated HTML at Gateway to the Classics)
• Ancient China Simplified (London: Chapman and Hall, 1908), by Edward Harper Parker (Gutenberg text)

• Chinese Grave-Sculptures of the Han Period (London: E. L. Morice; et al., 1911), by Berthold Laufer
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Serindia: Detailed Report of Explorations in Central Asia and Westernmost China (5 volumes, 1921), by Aurel Stein (page images at Toyo Bunko Archive)

• Crisis in the Taiwan Strait (1997), ed. by James R. Lilley and Chuck Downs (PDF page images at ndu.edu)

• A Chinese Biographical Dictionary (New York: Paragon Book Gallery, ca. 1898), by Herbert Allen Giles (page images at HathiTrust)
• China's First Hundred (Pullman, WA: State College of Washington, 1942), by Thomas E. La Fargue (page images at HathiTrust)

• Frontier Encounters: Knowledge and Practice at the Russian, Chinese and Mongolian Border (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2012), ed. by Franck Billé, Grégory Delaplace, and Caroline Humphrey
  • HTML at openbookpublishers.com
  • page images at Google

• Critical Han Studies: The History, Representation, and Identity of China's Majority (Berkeley et al.: University of California Press, c2012), ed. by Thomas S. Mullaney, James Leibold, Stéphane Gros, and Eric Vanden Bussche (HTML and PDF with commentary at UC Press)
• Chinese Heritage in the Making: Experiences, Negotiations and Contestations (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, c2018), ed. by Christina Maags and Marina Svensson (PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
• The Humanization of Technology and Chinese Culture (Washington: Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, c1998), ed. by Tomonobu Imamichi, Wang Miaoyang, and Liu Fangtong (PDF at crvp.org)
• Leibniz and Confucianism: The Search for Accord (Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii, c1977), by D. E. Mungello (PDF and Epub with commentary at Hawaii)
• Beyond Modernization: Chinese Roots for Global Awareness (Washington: Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, c1997), ed. by Wang Miaoyang, Yu Xuanmeng, and George F. McLean (multiple formats at Google)
• Our Chinese Ally (1944), by Owen Lattimore and Eleanor Holgate Lattimore
  • illustrated HTML at historians.org
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Le Catéchisme de Confucius: Contribution à l'Étude de la Sociologie Chinoise (in French; Paris: M. Rivière, 1927), by Gu Hongming and Francis Borrey
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Civilization of China, by Herbert Allen Giles (Gutenberg text)
• Oriental Religions and Their Relation to Universal Religion: China (Boston: Houghton, Osgood and Co., 1878), by Samuel Johnson (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Confucianism, Buddhism, Daoism, Christianity, and Chinese Cultures, by Tang Yi-Jie (PDF at crvp.org)
• The Problem of China, by Bertrand Russell (Gutenberg text)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.