The social sciences and fieldwork in China : views from the field
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The social sciences and fieldwork in China : views from the field
Routledge, 2019
- : hbk
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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
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  United States of America
Note
"First published 1983 by Westview Press. Published 2019 by Routledge"--T.p. verso
"This volume is the product of a panel on Sino-American exchanges in the social sciences presented at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science held in Toronto, Canada, in January 1981."--Preface (p. xiii)
Originally published in AAAS selected symposium series [86]
Includes bibliographical references
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Following the formation of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in 1977 and the beginning of a Sino-American scholarly exchange program in October 1978, a small number of foreigners has been able to conduct fieldwork in China after a hiatus of over thirty years. Welcomed though these new opportunities were by potential U.S. field researchers, the initial stage of enthusiasm was shortly overshadowed by both the difficulties foreign researchers faced in China and the imposition, in early 1981, of a temporary moratorium on long-term fieldwork by outsiders. Sober without being pessimistic, realistic without being discouraging, the contributors to this book describe the context in which fieldwork in China became possible, the constraints under which foreign fieldworkers have labored, and the potential rewards of field research to both Chinese and U.S. scholars. They also assess the relative value of fieldwork in China versus fieldwork at its gate, Hong Kong. The book includes substantive reports by U.S. and Chinese scholars (among them Fei Xiaotong, China's preeminent social anthropologist) as well as concrete advice to those contemplating field research in China.
Table of Contents
Preface -- Social Science and Fieldwork in China: Context and Constraints -- The Social Sciences and Fieldwork in China: An Overview -- Sociology and Anthropology in China: Revitalization and Its Constraints -- On Studying China at a Distance -- Views from the Field -- The New Face of Rural China: Kaixiangong Revisited after Half a Century -- Field Research in China's Communes: Views of a "Guest" -- Taitou Revisited: Prospects for Community Restudies -- Ethnographic Fieldwork in Rural Guangdong: The Virtues of Flexibility
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