![]() | Rural China on the Eve of Revolution: Sichuan Fieldnotes, 1949-1950 Subjects: Social structure -- China -- Sichuan Sheng; Country life -- China -- Sichuan Sheng; Sichuan Sheng (China) -- Social conditions -- 20th century; Sichuan Sheng (China) -- Rural conditions; Skinner G. William (George William) 1925-2008 -- Diaries; 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. G. William Skinner (1925-2008) was the dean of sinological anthropology in the West, a major theorist of family systems, and a pioneer in applying spatial analysis techniques to the study of agrarian societies. Stevan Harrell, professor of anthropology and environmental and forest sciences at the University of Washington, is the author of Ways of Being Ethnic in Southwest China . William Lavely , professor of international studies and sociology at the University of Washington, is the author of many articles on demography and the family in contemporary China. |
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