Practicing Kinship
Lineage and Descent in Late Imperial China
by Michael Szonyi
313 pages· 2002· ISBN 9780804742610
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Presenting a new approach to the history of Chinese kinship, this book attempts to bridge the gap between anthropological and historical scholarship on the Chinese lineage. It explores the historical development of kinship in the villages of the Fuzhou region of southeastern Fujian province.
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