A Chinese Beggars Den

Author : David C. Schak
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2010-11-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780822977100

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A Chinese Beggars' Den by David C. Schak Pdf

In this fascinating study of a community of Chinese beggars, David Schak offers evidence that challenges widely held theories on poverty. It is a path-breaking, systematic anthropological study that challenges long-held beliefs about poverty, and is one of the few works on beggars available. Over a period of seven years, Schak's fieldwork uncovers a structure of leadership, organizational methods, and alms-getting tactics. Moreover, certain members became upwardly mobile and able to leave this lifestyle. The severe stigma of gambling, adultery, and failure to marry proved the stimulus for a younger generation to leave begging behind.

Author : David C. Schak
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1988-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0608020559

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A Chinese Beggar's Den by David C. Schak Pdf

Author : Perry Link,Richard P. Madsen,Paul G. Pickowicz
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2001-12-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781461641056

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Popular China by Perry Link,Richard P. Madsen,Paul G. Pickowicz Pdf

Using ingenious research methods, the contributors to this book explore the search for meaning among ordinary people in China today. The subjects of these vivid essays span the social spectrum from hip young entrepreneurs to sweatshop workers and homeless beggars. The issues are equally diverse, ranging from domestic violence to homosexuality to political corruption. The culture of popular China emerges as a mixture of exhilarating new aspirations—as seen in the basketball fans who dream of "flying" like Michael Jordan or Kobe Bryant; rueful cynicism—as bitingly conveyed in the many satirical jingles that circulate by word of mouth; and painful ambivalence. The people depicted here have built their popular culture out of ideas and symbolic practices drawn from old cultural traditions, from concepts about modernity debated during the early twentieth-century republican era, from the legacies of Maoist socialism, and from contemporary global culture. Throughout, the book shows how economic and social changes caused by globalization, in combination with the continuing Party dictatorship, have presented ordinary Chinese with a new array of moral and cultural challenges that they have met in ways that have changed the face of China. Contributions by: Julia F. Andrews, Anita Chan, Deborah S. Davis, Leila Fernández-Stembridge, Robert Geyer, Amy Hanser, Richard Levy, Perry Link, Richard P. Madsen, Andrew Morris, Paul G. Pickowicz, Kuiyi Shen, Liping Wang, Li Zhang, Yuezhi Zhao, and Kate Zhou. ,

Author : Hanchao Lu
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 080475148X

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Street Criers by Hanchao Lu Pdf

This is a rich and comprehensive study of beggars’ culture and the institution of mendicancy in China from late imperial times to the mid-twentieth century, with a glance at the resurgence of beggars in China today. Generously illustrated, the book brings to life the concepts and practices of mendicancy including organized begging, state and society relations as reflected in the issues of poverty, public opinions of beggars and various factors that contribute to almsgiving, the role of gender in begging, and street people and Communist politics. Panoramically, the reader will see that the culture and institution of Chinese mendicancy, which had its origins in earlier centuries, remained remarkably consistent through time and space and that there were perennial and lively interactions between the world of beggars and mainstream society.

Author : Zwia Lipkin
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781684174263

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“Useless to the State” by Zwia Lipkin Pdf

"In 1911, Joseph Bailie, a professor at Nanjing University, often took his Chinese students to tour Nanjing’s shantytowns. One student, the son of a district magistrate, followed Bailie from hut to hut one rainy day, and was grateful that Bailie opened his eyes to the poverty in his own city. However, twenty years later, when M. R. Schafer, another Nanjing University professor, showed his students a film that included his own photographs of the poor quarters of Nanjing, his students were so upset that they demanded his expulsion from China. Zwia Lipkin explores the reasons for these starkly different reactions. Nanjing in the 1910s was a quiet city compared to 1930s Nanjing, which was by that time the national capital. Nanjing had become a symbol of national authority, aiming not only to become a model of modernization for the rest of China, but also to surpass Paris, London, and Washington. Underlying all of Nanjing’s policies was a concern for the capital’s image and looks—offensive people were allowed to exist as long as they remained invisible. Lipkin exposes both the process of social engineering and the ways in which the suppressed reacted to their abuse. Like Professor Schafer’s movie, this book puts the poor at the center of the picture, defying efforts to make them invisible."

Author : Deborah Davis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1995-07-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0521479436

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Urban Spaces in Contemporary China by Deborah Davis Pdf

Explores the impact of post-Mao reforms on the economic, social and cultural dimensions of China's cities.

Author : Paul R. Katz,Professor of Medicine Paul R Katz, MD
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0791426610

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Demon Hordes and Burning Boats by Paul R. Katz,Professor of Medicine Paul R Katz, MD Pdf

Provides a lively description of how the cult of a popular plague-fighting deity named Marshal Wen arose and spread in late imperial China.

Author : Janet Y. Chen
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691161952

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Guilty of Indigence by Janet Y. Chen Pdf

In the early twentieth century, a time of political fragmentation and social upheaval in China, poverty became the focus of an anguished national conversation about the future of the country. Investigating the lives of the urban poor in China during this critical era, Guilty of Indigence examines the solutions implemented by a nation attempting to deal with "society's most fundamental problem." Interweaving analysis of shifting social viewpoints, the evolution of poor relief institutions, and the lived experiences of the urban poor, Janet Chen explores the development of Chinese attitudes toward urban poverty and of policies intended for its alleviation. Chen concentrates on Beijing and Shanghai, two of China's most important cities, and she considers how various interventions carried a lasting influence. The advent of the workhouse, the denigration of the nonworking poor as "social parasites," efforts to police homelessness and vagrancy--all had significant impact on the lives of people struggling to survive. Chen provides a crucially needed historical lens for understanding how beliefs about poverty intersected with shattering historical events, producing new welfare policies and institutions for the benefit of some, but to the detriment of others. Drawing on vast archival material, Guilty of Indigence deepens the historical perspective on poverty in China and reveals critical lessons about a still-pervasive social issue.

Author : Philip A KUHN,Philip A Kuhn
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674039773

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Soulstealers by Philip A KUHN,Philip A Kuhn Pdf

Midway through the reign of the Ch'ien-lung emperor, Hungli, mass hysteria broke out among the common people. It was feared that sorcerers were roaming the land, clipping off the ends of men's queues (the braids worn by royal decree) and chanting magical incantations over them in order to steal the souls of their owners. In a fascinating chronicle of this epidemic of fear and the official prosecution of soulstealers that ensued, Philip Kuhn opens a window on the world of eighteenth-century China.

Author : Willliam J. Haas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781315481272

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China Voyager by Willliam J. Haas Pdf

A biography of an important but little-known American scientist that evokes the issues of religious and secular beliefs and the evolution of Chinese scientific and educational institutions during the early 1900s.

Author : Kate Swanson
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Indian children
ISBN : 9780820331805

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Begging as a Path to Progress by Kate Swanson Pdf

Examining beggars' organized migration networks, as well as the degree to which children can express agency and fulfill personal ambitions through begging, Swanson argues that Calhuasí, Equador's beggars are capable of canny engagement with the forces of change.

Author : Maren A. Ehlers
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781684175895

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Give and Take by Maren A. Ehlers Pdf

"Give and Take offers a new history of government in Tokugawa Japan (1600–1868), one that focuses on ordinary subjects: merchants, artisans, villagers, and people at the margins of society such as outcastes and itinerant entertainers. Most of these individuals are now forgotten and do not feature in general histories except as bystanders, protestors, or subjects of exploitation. Yet despite their subordinate status, they actively participated in the Tokugawa polity because the state was built on the principle of reciprocity between privilege-granting rulers and duty-performing status groups. All subjects were part of these local, self-governing associations whose members shared the same occupation. Tokugawa rulers imposed duties on each group and invested them with privileges, ranging from occupational monopolies and tax exemptions to external status markers. Such reciprocal exchanges created permanent ties between rulers and specific groups of subjects that could serve as conduits for future interactions.This book is the first to explore how high and low people negotiated and collaborated with each other in the context of these relationships. It takes up the case of one domain—Ōno in central Japan—to investigate the interactions between the collective bodies in domain society as they addressed the problem of poverty."

Author : Di Wang
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0804747784

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Street Culture in Chengdu by Di Wang Pdf

A study of the lively street culture in Chengdu from 1870 to 1930, this book explores the relationship between urban commoners and public space, the role of community and neighborhood in public life, and how the reform movement and Republican revolution transformed everyday life in this inland city.

Author : Richard T. Wang
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 0810833506

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Area Bibliography of China by Richard T. Wang Pdf

A combination of scholarly, commercial, and popular interests has generated a large quantity of literature on every aspect of Chinese life during the past two decades. This bibliography reflects these combined interests; it is broken up into sections by subject headings, and cross-references refer the researcher to related topics.

Author : Matthew H. Sommer
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520287037

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Polyandry and Wife-Selling in Qing Dynasty China by Matthew H. Sommer Pdf

Polyandry. "Getting a husband to support a husband." Attitudes of families, communities, and women toward polyandry. The intermediate range of practice -- Wife-selling. Anatomy of a wife sale. Analysis of prices in wife sales. Negotiations between men in wife sales. Wives, natal families, and children. Four variations on a theme -- Polyandry and wife-selling in Qing law. Formal law and central court interpretation from Ming through high Qing. Absolutism versus pragmatism in central court treatment of wife sales. Flexible adjudication of routine cases in the local courts.