{"product_id":"kinship-contract-community-and-state-9780804750677","title":"Kinship Contract Community and State","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A splendidly useful and revealing collection... a splendid summary of some of Cohen's best and most significant contributions to Chinese anthropology.\" -- \u003ci\u003eThe China Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents  Preface\t000  Introduction\t000  SECTION I: Late Imperial China and Its Legacies  1. Introduction to Arthur H. Smith's Village Life in China\t000  2. Being Chinese: The Peripheralization of Traditional Identity\t000  3. Cultural and Political Inventions in Modern China: The Case of the Chinese   \"Peasant\"\t000  SECTION II: The Family  4. North China Rural Families: Changes During the Communist Era\t000  SECTION III: Lineage Studies  5. Lineage Development and the Family in China\t000  6. Lineage Organization in North China\t000  7. Lineage Organization in East China\t000  SECTION IV: Historical Anthropology: The Minong Community During Qing  8. Commodity Creation in Late Imperial China\t000  9. Writs of Passage in Late Imperial China: Contracts and the Documentation of   Practical Understandings in Minong, Taiwan\t000  Character List\t000  Bibliography\t000  Index\t000","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405560029527,"sku":"9780804750677","price":22.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780804750677.jpg?v=1730492833","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/kinship-contract-community-and-state-9780804750677","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}