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Local Clan Communities in Rural China - Revolution and Urbanisation since the Late Qing Dynasty (Hardcover)
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Local Clan Communities in Rural China - Revolution and Urbanisation since the Late Qing Dynasty (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series
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Using data collected in fieldwork and surveys, this book examines
China's clan system and local clan communities in rural Anhui,
covering events in two periods: the imperial pattern as seen in the
first half of the twentieth century and changes since 1949.
Revealed by this research, during the late Qing and the Republic
Era, a local clan in the investigated areas was run as a highly
autonomous community with a strong religious focus, which
challenges the corporate model raised by Maurice Freedman. Through
examining single-surname villages, citang constructions, and
updating of genealogies, local clans in Huadong, Huizhou and the
lower Yangtze River plains in particular, developed earlier than
those in the Pearl River Delta Region. Taking a cross-disciplinary
viewpoint, this book analyses changes in local clan communities and
clan culture as brought by the Chinese Revolution, Mao's political
campaigns, and Deng's reforms. Starting with the late 1990s, a
large migration from villages to cities has rapidly altered rural
China. This geographic mobility would undermine the common
residence that serves as part of a clan's foundation. Under such
situation, what transformations have taken place or will affect
China's clan system? Will the system continue to revitalise or die
out? Local Clan Communities in Rural China reports these
events/transformations and attempts to answer these questions.
Placing a special emphasis on issues that have been overlooked by
prior studies, this book brings to light many new facts and
interpretations and provides a valuable reference to scholars in
fields of sociology, anthropology, history, economics, cultural
studies, urban studies, and population studies.
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