Rural China on the eve of revolution : Sichuan fieldnotes, 1949-1950
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Rural China on the eve of revolution : Sichuan fieldnotes, 1949-1950
University of Washington Press, c2017
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
In 1949, G. William Skinner, a Cornell University graduate student, set off for southwest China to conduct field research on rural social structure. He settled near the market town of Gaodianzi, Sichuan, and lived there for two and a half months, until the newly arrived Communists asked him to leave. During his time in Sichuan, Skinner kept detailed field notes and took scores of photos of rural life and unfolding events.
Skinner went on to become a giant in his field-his obituary in American Anthropologist called him "the world's most influential anthropologist of China." A key portion of his legacy arose from his Sichuan fieldwork, contained in his classic monograph Marketing and Social Structure in Rural China. Although the People's Liberation Army confiscated Skinner's research materials, some had been sent out in advance and were discovered among the files donated to the University of Washington Libraries after his death. Skinner's notes and photos bring to life this rare glimpse of rural China on the brink of momentous change.
Table of Contents
Preface / Stevan Harrell and William Lavely
Acknowledgments
Maps
1. The Road to Gaodianzi: June-November 1949
2. Settling In: November 12-26
3. A Household Survey and Rumors of the Communists: November 28-December 16
4. Working Out the Market Network as the PLA Approaches: December 13-24
5. Liberation! December 27-January 3
6. The Communists and the Temples: January 5-13
7. The Last Dongyue Temple Festival: January 15-17
8. The Premature End of Fieldwork: January 18-25
Epilogue: January-May 1950
Afterword / Zhijia Shen
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