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Kinship, contract, community, and state : anthropological perspectives on China

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. In dealing with the use of contracts and commodification within one community setting, it illuminates the broader economic culture of late imperial China
Print Book, English, 2005
Stanford University Press, Stanford, Calif., 2005
History
xii, 359 pages : map ; 24 cm
9780804750660, 9780804750677, 0804750661, 080475067X
56481900
Introduction
Introduction to Arthur H. Smith's Village life in China
Being Chinese : the peripheralization of traditional identity
Cultural and political inventions in modern China : the case of the Chinese "peasant"
North China rural families : changes during the communist era
Lineage development and the family in China
Lineage organization in north China
Lineage organization in east China
Commodity creation in late imperial China
Writs of passage in late imperial China : contracts and the documentation of practical understandings in Minong, Taiwan