Ploughshare Village

Author : Stevan Harrell
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295805633
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ploughshare Village written by Stevan Harrell and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2014-11-01 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthropological study of a workers’ village in North Taiwan makes an important contribution to the comparative literature on Chinese and Taiwanese social organization. Based on fieldwork conducted in 1973 and 1978, the study is exceptional not only because of its excellent data but also because the village itself was unique. Unlike villages previously studied and written about, Ploughshare was neither an agricultural nor a fishing village, but rather one whose inhabitants earned their living mostly from coal mining, knitting, and other non-agrarian activities. Culture and environmental context thus shaped social organization there differently than in other Taiwanese villages. This ethnography links local data to surrounding socioeconomic spheres: it shows the village’s relationship to its region, to Taiwan as a whole, and to the international economy. It also captures an important point in time, as Taiwan was undergoing the “economic miracle” that brought it into the ranks of developed countries. Stevan Harrell’s new preface highlights changes not only in the village over the last several decades, but also in the ways that anthropologists think about culture and Taiwan. Ploughshare Village, with its rich descriptions and analyses, will be of value to anthropologists, sociologists, economists, and China specialists.

Author : William Hare Newell
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 9789027978592
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ancestors written by William Hare Newell and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 1976 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William H. Newell
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110805316
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ancestors written by William H. Newell and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-07-20 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert P. Weller
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349087750
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unities and Diversities in Chinese Religion written by Robert P. Weller and published by Springer. This book was released on 1987-06-18 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ann Waltner
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824879953
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Getting an Heir written by Ann Waltner and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2019-03-31 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The need for heirs in any traditional society is a compelling one. In traditional China, where inheritance and notions of filiality depended on the production of progeny, the need was nearly absolute. As Ann Waltner makes clear in this broadly researched study of adoption in the late Ming and early Ch'ing periods, the getting of an heir was a complex, even paradoxical undertaking. Although adoption involving persons of the same surname was the only arrangement ritually and legally sanctioned in Chinese society, adoption of persons of a different surname was a relatively common practice. Using medical and ritual texts, legal codes, local gazetteers, biography, and fiction, Waltner examines the multiple dimensions of the practice of adoption and identifies not only the dominant ideology prohibiting adoption across surname lines, but also a parallel discourse justifying the practice.

Author : Marjorie Reeves
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780586083499
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sheep Bell and Ploughshare written by Marjorie Reeves and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Patricia Buckley Ebrey
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520414683
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kinship Organization in Late Imperial China, 1000-1940 written by Patricia Buckley Ebrey and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2024-07-26 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Stevan Harrell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429723067
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cultural Change In Postwar Taiwan written by Stevan Harrell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-13 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With its increasing wealth, a growing and better-educated urban population, and one of the world's largest trade surpluses, Taiwan has shed its identity as an impoverished, war-torn nation and joined the ranks of developed countries. Yet, despite the attention focused on the country's profound transformation, surprisingly little information exists

Author : Stevan Harrell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Belief and Unbelief in a Taiwan Village written by Stevan Harrell and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Murray A. Rubinstein
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317459075
Total Pages : 650 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Taiwan: A New History written by Murray A. Rubinstein and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-02-12 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a comprehensive portrait of Taiwan. It covers the major periods in the development of this small but powerful island province/nation. The work is designed in the style of the multi-volume "Cambridge History of China".