| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 265 pages) |
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text file |
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Includes index. |
| Contents |
The road to Gaodianzi: June-November 1949 -- Settling in: November 12-26 -- A household survey and rumors of the communists: November 28-December 16 -- Working out the market network as the PLA approaches: December 13-24 -- Liberation! December 27-January 3 -- The communists and the temples: January 5-13 -- The last Dongyue Temple Festival: January 15-17 -- The premature end of fieldwork: January 18-25. |
| Summary |
"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."--Publisher's description. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Skinner, G. William (George William), 1925-2008 -- Diaries.
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Skinner, G. William (George William), 1925-2008. |
| Genre/Form |
Diaries.
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| Subject |
Skinner, G. William (George William), 1925-2008 -- Diaries. |
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Social structure -- China -- Sichuan Sheng.
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Social structure. |
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China -- Sichuan Sheng. |
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Country life -- China -- Sichuan Sheng.
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Country life. |
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Sichuan Sheng (China) -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
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Sichuan Sheng (China) -- Rural conditions.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture. |
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HISTORY -- Asia -- China. |
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Rural conditions. |
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Social conditions. |
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Diaries.
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| Added Author |
Harrell, Stevan, editor.
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Lavely, William, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Rural China on the eve of revolution Seattle : University of Washington Press, 2017. 9780295999418 (hardcover : alk. paper) (DLC) 2016035717 |
| ISBN |
9780295999432 ebook |
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0295999438 |
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9780295999418 hardcover : alkaline paper |
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9780295999425 paperback : alkaline paper |
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0295999411 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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029599942X (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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