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Kinship, Contract, Community, and State: Anthropological Perspectives on China
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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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“As Cohen ' s landmark work on north China during the late Qing and the Republican periods demonstrated, 2 the lack of genealogical texts does not necessarily testify to inactivity in lineage-building.”
From GENEALOGICAL STELES IN NORTH CHINA DURING THE JIN AND YUAN DYNASTIES (2016) · cites this paper as Cohen 2005
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GENEALOGICAL STELES IN NORTH CHINA DURING THE JIN AND YUAN DYNASTIES
Iiyama, T. (2016) · International Journal of Asian Studies · doi:10.1017/s1479591416000024 · Cited by 10
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- Authors
- Cohen, M. L.
- Corresponding author
- Cohen, Myron L.
- Venue
- Stanford University Press eBooks
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Published
- 2005-01-31
- OpenAlex
- W4206961117
- Cited by
- 58
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2025: 4 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 3 · 2021: 2 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 14 · 2018: 4 · 2017: 3 · 2016: 3 · 2015: 2 · 2014: 2 · 2013: 6 · 2012: 1
- FWCI
- 0.93
- Type
- book
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Stanford University Press eBooks (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History › Chinese history and philosophy
- Social Sciences › Anthropology › Anthropological Studies and Insights
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › China's Ethnic Minorities and Relations
- Keywords
- late imperial China, kinship, family life, communist regime, commodification, contracts, economic culture, modernity, Chinese culture, Taiwan, anthropology of China, state
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