Kinship, contract, community, and state : anthropological perspectives on China / Myron L. Cohen.

Author/creator Cohen, Myron L., 1937-
Format Book
Publication InfoStanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2005.
Descriptionxii, 359 pages : 1 map ; 24 cm.
Supplemental ContentTable of contents
Subjects

SeriesStudies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University. ^A593434
Contents Introduction -- Introduction to Arthur H. Smith's Village life in China -- Being Chinese : the peripheralization of traditional identity -- Cultural and political inventions in modern China : the case of the Chinese "peasant" -- North China rural families : changes during the communist era -- Lineage development and the family in China -- Lineage organization in north China -- Lineage organization in east China -- Commodity creation in late imperial China -- Writs of passage in late imperial China : contracts and the documentation of practical understandings in Minong, Taiwan.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [331]-345) and index.
LCCN 2004020533
ISBN0804750661 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN080475067X (pbk. : alk. paper)

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