Kinship, Contract, Community, and State: Anthropological Perspectives on China

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Stanford University Press, 2005 - 359 頁
This book examines major areas of late imperial Chinese culture, and their relation to Chinese culture today, focusing on the competence and sophistication of ordinary people.

The work provides an overview of late imperial society and its responses to forces for change. Its ethnographically rich treatment of changes in family life under Communist rule is based on the author's fieldwork. Kinship beyond the family is treated through comparisons of the author's fieldwork sites in China and Taiwan. In dealing with the use of contracts and commodification within one community setting, it illuminates the broader economic culture of late imperial China. This book powerfully confirms that China's modernity has deep roots in its own tradition, and in doing so offers an excellent introduction to the anthropological view of China.

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Introduction to Arthur H Smiths Village Life in China
19
The Peripheralization of Traditional Identity
39
Changes During
77
Lineage Development and the Family in China
153
Lineage Organization in East China
195
Commodity Creation in Late Imperial China
223
Contracts and
252
Notes
307
Bibliography
331
Character List
347
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Myron L. Cohen is Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University and an affiliate of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute. He is the author of House United, House Divided: The Chinese Family in Taiwan, and Asia Case Studies in the Social Sciences: A Guide for Teaching.

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