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International Workshop Conveners: Christian Henriot (IrAsia, Aix-Marseille University), Sun Huei-min (Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica), Cécile Armand (IrAsia, Aix-Marseille University)In the century that followed China’s forced entry into the world order shaped by the advancing Western empires (1832-1949), the nature of elite groups in China experienced a tremendous and radical transformation. The ruling group that had dominated the country for a millennium — a narrow elite of Confucian-trained civil and military scholar-officials selected through a double process of education in the Chinese classics and the highly competitive imperial examinations— eventually faded away in 1911. Power and social prestige shifted to socially, intellectually and ethnically more diversified groups that included not just Chinese, but foreigners who operated within interlocked transnational networks. Within and beyond China, this period saw the rise of the first global elite that set the pace of multiple entangled histories.&#160;The ERC project “Elites, Networks, and Power in Modern Urban China” investigates how elites and elite networks in their various configurations and articulations emerged and operated not just in major cities in China, but beyond, across the Western and Japanese empires, and the power nations (Great Britain, France, United States, Japan) themselves. It focuses specifically on individual actors rather than state institutions or community organizations. The workshop seeks to address a number of core issues about the individuals and groups that emerged as elite and the modalities and processes of elite formation and (re)deployment of elite networks; the vectors, patterns and timelines of the involvement of elites in public action, from acting in an official capacity, in self- organized associations but also assuming the role of opinion leaders.&#160;ProgramMonday 7 October 9h00-12h00Christian HENRIOT, Irasia, Aix-Marseille UniversityIntroductionCameron CAMPBELL, Hong Kong University of Science and TechnologyFamily Background and Career Outcomes for Exam Degree Holders in the Qing (1644-1911) Civil ServiceSUN Huei-Min, Institute of Modern Chinese History, Academia SinicaRedefining the Elites: Chinese Who’s Who Publications in the 1930s ShanghaiMonday 7 October 14h00-17h00James LEE, Hong Kong University of Science and TechnologyMutable Inequalities: Meritocracy and the Making of the Chinese Academe,1912-1952, A Data Analytic ApproachPeter HAMILTON, Trinity College DublinThe American-Returned Students: New Forms of Business and Eliteness in Republican ChinaLIN Yi-Tang, University of GenevaScientists at the Service of the States: Chinese Rockefeller Fellows in Chemistry and Biology and their Career Trajectories from 1949 to 1966Tuesday 8 October 9h00-12h00Marilyn LEVINE, Central Washington University Revolutionary Roads: An Integrative Analysis Utilizing the Chinese Biographical DatabaseCécile Armand, Irasia, Aix-Marseille UniversityTransnational elite sociability in Republican China: A case study of meeting attendance at the Rotary Club of Shanghai (1919-1949)Henrike RUDOLPH, Friedrich-Alexander University, Erlangen-NurembergStructures of Empowerment: A Network Exploration of the Collective Biographies of Women Activists in Twentieth-Century ChinaTuesday 8 October 14h00-17h00Brett SHEEHAN, University of Southern CaliforniaMiddling Elites: Middle Managers at the Shanghai Bank of China on the Eve of the Communist RevolutionLIEN Ling-Ling, Institute of Modern Chinese History, Academia SinicaService to the Empire and to the Community: The British Women’s Association in Shanghai, 1921-1941Alan BAUMLER, Indiana University of PennsylvaniaAviation and elite culture in transnational China 1909-1955Wednesday 9 October 9h45-12h00Open discussion