Anthropology Of Ascendant China

Author : Mayfair Mei-hui Yang
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1003358942

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"This volume represents the latest research in cultural anthropology on an ascendant and globalizing China, covering the many different dimensions of China's ascendancy both within China itself and beyond. It focuses not only on the real and perceived successes of China in the past four decades, but also on the difficulties, tensions, and dangers that have emerged as a result of rapid economic development: class polarization, state expansion, psychological distress, and environmental degradation. Including contributions by some of the most well-known cultural anthropologists of China, as well as rising innovative younger scholars, this book documents and analyses China's multifaceted transformations in the modern era - both within Chinese society, as well as in Chinese relations with the outside world. It features the unique perspective of anthropology, with its on-the-ground deep cultural immersion through long-term fieldwork, coupled with a macrolevel global perspective, a strong historical perspective, and theoretically engaged analyses to present a balanced account of China's ascendancy. Anthropology of Ascendant China: Histories, Attainments, and Tribulations is suitable for students and scholars in Anthropology, Sociology, History, Political Science, and East Asian Studies, as well as those working on contemporary Chinese society and culture more broadly"--

Author : Mayfair Yang
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781040011607

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Anthropology of Ascendant China by Mayfair Yang Pdf

This volume represents the latest research in cultural anthropology on an ascendant and globalizing China, covering the many different dimensions of China’s ascendancy both within China itself and beyond. It focuses not only on the real and perceived successes of China in the past four decades, but also on the difficulties, tensions, and dangers that have emerged as a result of rapid economic development: class polarization, state expansion, psychological distress, and environmental degradation. Including contributions by some of the most well-known cultural anthropologists of China, as well as rising innovative younger scholars, this book documents and analyzes China’s multifaceted transformations in the modern era—both within Chinese society and in Chinese relations with the outside world. It features the unique perspective of anthropology, with its on-the-ground deep cultural immersion through long-term fieldwork, coupled with a macrolevel global perspective, a strong historical perspective, and theoretically engaged analyses to present a balanced account of China’s ascendancy. Anthropology of Ascendant China: Histories, Attainments, and Tribulations is suitable for students and scholars in Anthropology, Sociology, History, Political Science, and East Asian Studies, as well as those working on contemporary Chinese society and culture more broadly.

Author : Stephan Feuchtwang,Charlotte Bruckermann
Publisher : World Scientific Publishing Company
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781783269853

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Anthropology Of China, The: China As Ethnographic And Theoretical Critique by Stephan Feuchtwang,Charlotte Bruckermann Pdf

Putting China into the context of general anthropology offers novel insights into its history, culture and society. Studies in the anthropology of China need to look outwards, to other anthropological areas, while at the same time, anthropologists specialised elsewhere cannot afford to ignore contributions from China. This book introduces a number of key themes and in each case describes how the anthropology and ethnography of China relates to the surrounding theories and issues. The themes chosen include the anthropology of intimacy, of morality, of food and of feasting, as well as the anthropology of civilisation, modernity and the state.The Anthropology of China covers both long historical perspectives and ethnographies of the twenty-first century. For the first time, ethnographic perspectives on China are contextualised in comparison with general anthropological debates. Readers are invited to engage in and rethink China's place within the wider world, making it perfect for professional researchers and teachers of anthropology and Chinese history and society, and for advanced undergraduate and graduate study.

Author : S. M. Shirokogoroff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015004067719

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Anthropology of Northern China by S. M. Shirokogoroff Pdf

Author : Gregory Eliyu Guldin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781315488394

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Anthropology in China by Gregory Eliyu Guldin Pdf

This book previously published in 2015 as vol. 20, no. 4 and vol. 21, no. 1 of Chinese sociology and anthropology". Seventh section of Chinese Studies on China series.

Author : Grant Evans,Maria Tam
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1997-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0824820053

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Hong Kong by Grant Evans,Maria Tam Pdf

Hong Kong has become a by-word for all that is modern and sparkling in Asia today.Yet tourist brochures still play with the old cliche of Hong Kong as a place where ‘East meets West’. Images of so-called ‘traditional’ China, junks sailing Victoria Harbour or old women praying to gods in smoky temples, mingle with those portraying Hong Kong as a consumer and business paradise.This collection of essays attempts to transcend the old polarities. It looks at modern Hong Kong in all its splendour and diversity in the run-up to its re-absorption into Greater China through the mediums of film, food, architecture, rumors and slang.It explores the question of a distinct, modern Chinese identity in Hong Kong, and even when it explores the traditional stamping ground of the older anthropology in the New Territories it finds a dramatically changed context, in particular for women.This collection presents an intriguing insight into the process of transition from ‘tradition’ to ‘modernity’ in this Modern Chinese Metropolis.

Author : Yunxiang Yan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000325539

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The Individualization of Chinese Society by Yunxiang Yan Pdf

Chinese society has seen phenomenal change in the last 30 years. Two of the most profound changes have been the rise of the individual in both public and private spheres and the consequent individualization of Chinese society itself. Yet, despite China's recent dramatic entrance into global politics and economics, neither of these significant shifts has been fully analysed. China may indeed present an alternative model of social transformation in the age of globalisation - so its path to development may have particular implications for the developing world.The Individualization of Chinese Society reveals how individual agency has been on the rise since the 1970s and how this has impacted on everyday life and Chinese society more broadly. The book presents a wide range of detailed case studies - on the impact of economic policy, patterns of kinship, changes in marriage relations and the socio-economic position of women, the development of youth culture, the politics of consumerism, and shifting power relations in everyday life.

Author : Grant Evans,Maria Tam
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136796456

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Hong Kong by Grant Evans,Maria Tam Pdf

Hong Kong has become a by-word for all that is modern and sparkling in Asia today. Yet tourist brochures still play with the old cliche of Hong Kong as a place where 'East meets West'. Images of so-called 'traditional' China, junks sailing Victoria Harbour or old women praying to gods in smoky temples, mingle with those portraying Hong Kong as a consumer and business paradise. This collection of essays attempts to transcend the old polarities. It looks at modern Hong Kong in all its splendour and diversity in the run-up to its re-absorption into Greater China in mid-97, through the mediums of film, food, architecture, rumours and slang. It explores the question of a distinct, modern Chinese identity in Hong Kong, and even when it explores the traditional stamping ground of the older anthropology in the New Territories it finds a dramatically changed context, in particular for women. This collection presents an intriguing insight into the process of transition from 'tradition' to 'modernity' in this Modern Chinese Metropolis.

Author : Sergei Mikhailovich Shirokogorov
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Ethnology
ISBN : OCLC:1086709864

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Anthropology of Northern China, By S.M. Shirokogoroff by Sergei Mikhailovich Shirokogorov Pdf

Author : Leon E. Stover,Takeko Kawai Stover
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015008690292

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China by Leon E. Stover,Takeko Kawai Stover Pdf

Author : Myron L. Cohen
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 080475067X

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Kinship, Contract, Community, and State by Myron L. Cohen Pdf

This is an anthropological exploration of the roots of China's modernity in the country's own tradition, as seen especially in economic and kinship patterns.

Author : P. Steven Sangren
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781000324471

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Chinese Sociologics by P. Steven Sangren Pdf

This volume explores the links between individuals, families, communities and the state in China through ritual and myth.

Author : Xi He,David Faure
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317409656

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The Fisher Folk of Late Imperial and Modern China by Xi He,David Faure Pdf

Although most studies of rural society in China deal with land villages, in fact very substantial numbers of Chinese people lived by the sea, on the rivers and the lakes. In land villages, mostly given to farming, people lived in permanent houses, whereas on the margins of the waterways many people lived in boats and sheds, and developed their own marked features, often being viewed as pariahs by the rest of Chinese society. This book examines these boat and shed living people. It takes an "historical anthropological" approach, combining research in official records with investigations among surviving boat and shed living people, their oral traditions and their personal records. Besides outlining the special features of the boat and shed living people, the book considers why pressures over time drove many to move to land villages, and how boat and shed living people were gradually marginalised, often losing their fishing rights to those who claimed imperial connections. The book covers the subject from Ming and Qing times up to the present.

Author : Sulamith Heins Potter,Jack M. Potter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1990-03-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0521355214

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China's Peasants by Sulamith Heins Potter,Jack M. Potter Pdf

This landmark study of Zengbu, a Cantonese community, is the first comprehensive analysis of a rural Chinese society by foreign anthropologists since the Revolution in 1949. Jack and Sulamith Potter examine the revolutionary experiences of Zengbu's peasant villagers and document the rapid changeover from Maoist to post-Maoist China. In particular, they seek to explain the persistence of the deep structure of Chinese culture through thirty years of revolutionary praxis. The authors assess the continuities and changes in rural China, moving from the traditional social organization and cultural life of the pre-revolutionary period through the series of large-scale efforts to implement planned social change which characterized Maoism - land reform, collectivization, the Great Leap Forward, and the Cultural Revolution. They examine in detail late Maoist society in 1979-80 and go on to describe and analyse the extraordinary changes of the post-Mao years, during which Zengbu was decollectivized, and traditional customs and religious practices reappeared.

Author : Sergeĭ Mikhaĭlovich Shirokogorov
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Social Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105036713498

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Anthropology of Eastern China and Kwangtung Province by Sergeĭ Mikhaĭlovich Shirokogorov Pdf