本文以清末民初的上海地方自治運動為主題，以文化權力網絡為途徑，以單一人物參與為花園，探討參與此運動的上海地方菁英是對何組成。再以個別案例說明，參與者如何與官方互動。文中指出：自治運動的參與者以商人占多數，郁懷智因身為洋布公所董事得以入選，並參與整個自治運動。在他所參與議案中，以禁煙案最能表說出地方菁英的主動性，另外在道路與慈善的案件中，自治運動也較容易推行，可視為文化權力運作成功之例。在拆城案中，由於地方菁英意見不一，導致議案進度落後，直到產生共識後方獲得解決。在牽涉到其他單位利益可能受到阻礙而成果有限，地方菁英的文化權力網絡無法發揮功能。整體而言，自治運動仍是在官方的支持下，才能夠實行改善市政的理想。

This thesis discusses how the local elites in Shanghai participating in this movement are composed and how the participators interact with the official with individual case within the scope of individual participation by the approach of cultural nexus of power and with the theme of Shanghai local self-government movement in the end of the Qing dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China. The result indicates: the majority of the participators in the self-government movement were the businessmen; as the chainman of the Foreign Cottons Trade Association, Yu Huai-zhi was selected and had participated in the whole self-government movement. In all the cases participated by him, the tobacco forbidding case showed the initiative of the local elites most; moreover, the self-government movement was also easy to be pushed in the road and beneficent cases, which could be regarded as the successful case of the operation of cultural nexus of power. In the remove case, the pace of the case was draggled due to the disagreement among the local elites, and it could be solved until the common sense was produced. The case are most likely to be embarrassed with limited fruit and the function of the cultural nexus of power of the local elites could not be exerted when involving in the interests of other units. As a whole, the self-government movement could only realize the ideal of improving the civicism with the official support.