Chinese Pioneer Family (eBook)

The Lins of Wu-feng, Taiwan, 1729-1895

Johanna Margarete Menzel Meskill (Autor)

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2017
394 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-8641-8 (ISBN)

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In an absorbing account of a frontier family's rise to local eminence, from its pioneer days in eighteenth-century Taiwan through its attainment of gentry status there a century later, Johanna Meskill presents not just a family history but a social history of late imperial China as well.Originally published in 1979.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.3.2017
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Reihe/Serie: Studies of the East Asian Institute
• Reihe/Serie: Studies of the East Asian Institute
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lexikon / Chroniken
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Hilfswissenschaften
• Schlagworte: accountant • Ancestral home (Chinese) • Anhui • Bao Zheng • Beijing • blood brother • bureaucrat • bursary • camphor • Cash crop • Changhua • China • China proper • chinese architecture • Chinese clothing • Chinese Culture • Chinese emigration • Chinese Law • Chinese surname • Chinese titles • Chinese Village (Tsarskoe Selo) • Civilization • Confucianism • Confucius • Courtesy name • Cross-Strait Relations • Dynasty • East Asian cultural sphere • family honor • Filial Piety • freedman • Fujian • Fuzhou • Guangdong • Guangxu Emperor • Hakka people • His Family • Household • Huai Army • Imperial examination • Informant • Intendant • In The Family • Jiangxi • John K. Fairbank • Kangxi Emperor • Keelung Campaign • Koxinga • Kuomintang • Lower house • Mainland China • Mao Zedong • Min River (Fujian) • Min River (Sichuan) • Mrs. • Nanjing • nationalist government • new village • nouveau riche • Old Chinese • Overseas Chinese • peasant • Peking Gazette • philanthropy • political alliance • Primogeniture • Private income • Province of Taiwan • Qianlong emperor • Qing Dynasty • Quanzhou • residence • settler • Shantung (fabric) • sinicization • Sino-French War • Social bandit • Social Status • Sui Dynasty • Surname • Suzhou • Taichung • taipei • Taiping Rebellion • Taiwanese aborigines • Tang Dynasty • Tax • Temple name • The Emperor's Birthday • Traditional society • Treaty of Shimonoseki • tribal leadership • Tunghai University • Upper Class • Wealth • White Lotus Rebellion • Wu River (Yangtze tributary) • Yongzheng Emperor • Zhejiang • Zheng He
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-8641-4 / 1400886414
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-8641-8 / 9781400886418