Social Organization in South China, 1911-1949 The Case of Kuan Lineage in K'ai-p'ing County /

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Author / Creator:	Woon, Yuen-fong, 1943-
Imprint:	Ann Arbor : Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan, 1984.
Description:	1 online resource (xi, 158 p.)
Language:	English
Series:	Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subject:	Kinship -- China -- Kaiping (Guangdong Sheng) -- Case studies. Social classes -- China -- Kaiping (Guangdong Sheng) -- Case studies. Social structure -- Case studies. Kinship. Social classes. Social conditions. Social structure. Kaiping (Guangdong Sheng, China) -- Social conditions. China -- Kaiping (Guangdong Sheng) Case studies.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12662329

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Other authors / contributors:	Project Muse.
ISBN:	0472902237 0892640510 0892640480 9780892640485 9780892640515 9780472902231
Notes:	Bibliography: p. 153-158. Open Access Description based on print version record.
Summary:	Bridging the collapse of the Confucian state and the establishment of the People's Republic of China, the period 1911-49 is particularly fascinating to historians, anthropologists, sociologists and political scientists. Unfortunately, it is also a very confusing period, full of shifts and changes in economic, social, and political organizations. The social implications of these changes, and the relationships between officials on the subdistrict level, the unofficial leaders, and the bulk of the peasantry remain inadequately known. South China, which nurtured the Communist Party in its formative years, is a particularly interesting case. In this study I use the Kuan lineage of K'ai-p'ing as a case study to show the effects of demographic, economic, administrative, and educational changes after the Treaty of Nanking (1842) on patrilineal kinship as a principle of social organization in South China.

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