Book
A Chinese pioneer family: the Lins of Wu-feng, Taiwan, 1729-1895
Princeton University Press • Princeton, N.j. • Published In 1979 • Pages:
By: Meskill, Johanna Margarete Menzel.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This book reconstructs from archival sources the history of the Lins, a pioneer family in Taiwan, in the context of the island's society as it emerged and developed over the course of several centuries. Each chapter covers a specific time period and the role of individual Lins in both local history and their interrelations with Chinese, and later Japanese, imperial governments. As the Lins were peasant pioneers, petty rural traders, landlords, local strongmen, military officers, and gentry, Meskill states that their family history may 'serve as the key to the history of an entire region' (p. 5).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- History
- Real property
- Literature
- Status, role, and prestige
- Ingroup antagonisms
- Household
- Lineages
- External relations
- Revolution
- Warfare
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Taiwan Hokkien
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1995
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Asia
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- East Asia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Historian
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- M. A. Marcus
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1962-1965 (p. 3-4)
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- variable, ca. 1683-1895, especially 1729-1895 for the Lin family (from title)
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Wu-feng, Chang-hua hsien, Taiwan
- NotesAdditional notes
- Johanna Menzel Meskill
- Includes bibliography
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 78070308
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Taiwanese