Kinship, Contract, Community, and State

Anthropological Perspectives on China

von Myron L Cohen

376 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• ISBN: 9780804750660
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 31.01.2005
• Größe: 237 x 157 mm
• Verlag: Stanford University Press