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Kinship, Contract, Community, and State

Anthropological Perspectives on China

Myron L. Cohen

In the seriesStudies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University

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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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Frontmatter Publicly AvailableDownload PDF	i
Preface Publicly AvailableDownload PDF	vii
Contents Publicly AvailableDownload PDF	xi
Tables Publicly AvailableDownload PDF	xiii
Map Publicly AvailableDownload PDF	xvi
Introduction Requires AuthenticationUnlicensed LicensedDownload PDF	1
Section I: Late Imperial China and Its Legacies Requires AuthenticationUnlicensed LicensedDownload PDF	17
Section II: The Family Requires AuthenticationUnlicensed LicensedDownload PDF	75
Section III: Lineage Studies Requires AuthenticationUnlicensed LicensedDownload PDF	151
Section IV: Historical Anthropology: The Minong Community During Qing Requires AuthenticationUnlicensed LicensedDownload PDF	221
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Language:English
Publisher:Stanford University Press
Audience:College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content:376
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- Other:10 tables, 1 map

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Published:January 31, 2005
ISBN:9781503624986

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Kinship, Contract, Community, and State

Anthropological Perspectives on China