| Author | : Myron L. Cohen |
| Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 380 |
| Release | : 2005 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 9780804750677 |
This is an anthropological exploration of the roots of China's modernity in the country's own tradition, as seen especially in economic and kinship patterns.
| Author | : Myron L. Cohen |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 376 |
| Release | : 2022 |
| Genre | : SOCIAL SCIENCE |
| ISBN | : 9781503624986 |
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.
| Author | : Michael Szonyi |
| Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 340 |
| Release | : 2002 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 9780804742610 |
Presenting a new approach to the history of Chinese kinship, this book attempts to bridge the gap between anthropological and historical scholarship on the Chinese lineage. It explores the historical development of kinship in the villages of the Fuzhou region of southeastern Fujian province.
| Author | : Ai-li S. Chin |
| Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 294 |
| Release | : 1970 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 9780804707138 |
Includes bibliographical references.
| Author | : Kwang-Ching Liu |
| Publisher | : University of Hawaii Press |
| Total Pages | : 492 |
| Release | : 2004-01-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780824825386 |
Ten international academics explore heterodoxy dissent challenging the beliefs and meanings of the established norm in late Imperial China. In this process, they trace the origins of the cultural and intellectual protests to aspects of Daoism and Buddhism in the Ming (1368-1644) and Qing (1644-1911)
| Author | : Mark Anton Allee |
| Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 380 |
| Release | : 1994 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780804722728 |
Based on case files, this study explores the social significance of the traditional Chinese legal system, and investigates how people utilized the courts during the course of criminal and civil disputes. The author emphasizes the ways in which law shaped social and economic change and how in turn the legal code and court system were adapted to local realities.
| Author | : Parin Dossa |
| Publisher | : Rutgers University Press |
| Total Pages | : 243 |
| Release | : 2017-03-10 |
| Genre | : Family & Relationships |
| ISBN | : 0813588103 |
Transnational Aging and Reconfigurations of Kin Work documents the social and material contributions of older persons to their families in settings shaped by migration, their everyday lives in domestic and community spaces, and in the context of intergenerational relationships and diasporas. Much of this work is oriented toward supporting, connecting, and maintaining kin members and kin relationships—the work that enables a family to reproduce and regenerate itself across generations and across the globe.
| Author | : Weijing Lu |
| Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 367 |
| Release | : 2008-02-06 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 080478678X |
This path-breaking book examines the broad cultural, social, and gender meanings of the "faithful maiden" cult in late imperial China (1368–1911). Across the empire, an increasing number of young women or "faithful maidens," defied their parents' wishes and chose either to live out their lives as widows upon the death of a fiancé or killed themselves to join their fiancé in death. The book analyzes the familial conflicts, government policies, ideological controversies, and personal emotions surrounding the cult. Concentrating on the dramatic acts of spirit wedding and suicide, the faithful maidens' unique code of conduct, and the extraordinary life journey of "virgin mothers," Lu documents the ideological, psychological, cultural, and economic aspects of these young women's mentality and behavior, and the implications of this behavior for their families and the broader society. The book's narrative of the faithful maiden cult interweaves late imperial political, cultural, social and intellectual history, thus, providing a new window onto the history of the late imperial period.
| Author | : Christopher H. Johnson |
| Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
| Total Pages | : 367 |
| Release | : 2013-01-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0857457500 |
The word “blood” awakens ancient ideas, but we know little about its historical representation in Western cultures. Anthropologists have customarily studied how societies think about the bodily substances that unite them, and the contributors to this volume develop those questions in new directions. Taking a radically historical perspective that complements traditional cultural analyses, they demonstrate how blood and kinship have constantly been reconfigured in European culture. This volume challenges the idea that blood can be understood as a stable entity, and shows how concepts of blood and kinship moved in both parallel and divergent directions over the course of European history.
