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Kinship Organization in Late Imperial China, 1000-1940 (Paperback)
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Kinship Organization in Late Imperial China, 1000-1940 (Paperback)
Series: Studies on China, 5
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One of the most important questions facing scholars of China is how
Chinese society is held together. It is now well known that China
has been marked by great diversity. In the realm of social customs,
not only were there broad regional or class differences, but also,
at a local level, the people in one village might adopt a different
set of practices from those of neighboring communities. Yet the
majority of these varied practices seems to have fit within a frame
that was distinctly Chinese. Thus scholars must also ask how people
of dissimilar occupations and economic interests, living in widely
separated parts of the country, came to recognize and act on a
common set of cultural beliefs. Explaining the variations in
Chinese society requires minute knowledge of local conditions.
Explaining the uniformities requires historical understanding of
the processes involved in the spread of ideas and practices and the
ways by which some came to be considered standard. Given the
available sources on Chinese society, neither of these tasks is
simple. The study of kinship and kinship organizations provides one
of the best ways to approach the coexisting uniformities and
variations of Chinese society. This edited volume is the
collaboration of historians and social scientists, and this
collaboration is required if we are to learn enough about kinship
in Chinese society to explain both the uniformities and the
variations. The substantive papers are all written by historians,
but these historians have raided the stock of anthropological
terms, models, and theories, tried to use technical terms in a
consistent and well-defined way, implicitly addressed
anthropologists on the issues that seem to fascinate them, and
responded to the suggestions and criticisms of the anthropologists
who have read their papers. At the same time, however, they remain
historians and do not ignore the types of issues (such as
historical context and change over time) with which historians have
always dealt. The editors believe that this type of collaboration
has distinct advantages over the more usual approach to
transcending disciplinary boundaries by placing articles by
historians and social scientists side by side in the same volume.
If we have been successful, social scientists should find issues of
interest in the chapters, and historians should find them full of
the substance of history and not too long-winded in the belaboring
the obvious. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived
program, which commemorates University of California Press's
mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them
voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893,
Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship
accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title
was originally published in 1986.
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