Lukang: Commerce and Community in a Chinese City

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SUNY Press, 01/01/1995 - 296 páginas
Based on anthropological fieldwork in Lukang, an old seaport in Taiwan, this book examines the city's history, economic structure, and social organization. It addresses such matters as an annual rock fight between the city's major clans, the way votes are bought in local elections, and why the inhabitants of a fairly large industrial and commercial city describe it as a cozy community where everyone knows everyone else. The book uses the framework of a community study to address such large questions as the adequacy of Confucianism as model for Chinese society, the nature of Chinese social organization beyond the realm of the family and kinship, and the structure of Chinese cities rather than villages. The argument of the book is propelled by a set of intellectual puzzles concerning the disjunctions, if not contradictions, between the structure of Chinese society or the city of Lukang and the ways the members of that society talk about their society and their own places in it.

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Introduction
1
Some Chinese Puzzles
9
In the Shadow Zone Chinese Personal Relations Associations and Cities
29
The City of Lukang
56
Lukang in Space and Time
67
Politics at Lukang
90
Social Structure in Old Lukang
127
Images of Community
178
Personal Networks and Chingbased Groups
204
Using the Model
247
Varieties of Conscious Models
260
Bibliography
275
Name Index
289
Subject Index
291
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Donald R. DeGlopper is a member of the staff of the Far Eastern Law Division, Law Library, Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. He has taught anthropology and Asian Studies at Cornell and Yale Universities, and been a visiting fellow of the Contemporary China Centre, the Australian National University.

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