China's Gentry: Essays on Rural-Urban Relations

by Hsiao-tung Fei

Margaret Park Redfield

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These seven essays on the structure of Chinese society are based on articles contributed by Fei to Chinese newspapers in 1947 and 1948. Six case histories from a study of the gentry by Yung-teh Chow are appended.

"The chief interest and charm of this book lie in the fact that it is not directed to the Western reader; these were studies written in Chinese, by an erudite Chinese, for a Chinese public. . . . Mrs. Redfield is to be complimented for her own careful research in preparing this translation for a non-Chinese public."—Robert F. Spencer, American Anthropologist
  • ISBN10 0226239578
  • ISBN13 9780226239576
  • Publish Date 15 September 1980
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint University of Chicago Press