Chinese Kinship Reconsidered: Anthropological Perspectives On Historical Research
- 1 December 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in The China Quarterly
- Vol. 92, 589-622
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305741000000965
Abstract
Social historians and social anthropologists may differ in respect to methodology but they often study the same kinds of problems and ask similar questions of their data. This is particularly true in the field of Chinese studies. Anthropologists who work in Chinese villages, towns or cities cannot help but be aware of historical issues; if they are not their hosts will soon set them straight. Historians, in turn, must become anthropologists of sorts if they hope to understand the complexities of Chinese social institutions.Keywords
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