Book
City on the sands: social structure in a nineteenth-century Chinese city
University Microfilms • Ann Arbor, Mich. • Published In 1983 • Pages:
By: DeGlopper, Donald R..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Using data from the city of Lukang (a Ch'uan-cho city), DeGlopper examines the theory that it is possible to construct a model of Chinese urban social structure. DeGlopper discusses the theoretical issues involved, the city of Lukang, Lukang in space and time, Lukang's economy and population, and social structure in nineteenth-century Lukang. The author concludes that '…there is no distinctive form of urban social structure in Chinese society. Rather, there is a characteristically Chinese social structure which consists of overlapping formal associations and a distinct sort of network of interpersonal relations' (p. 263).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Theoretical orientation in research and its results
- History
- Urban and rural life
- Internal trade
- External trade
- Mercantile business
- Water transport
- Ingroup antagonisms
- Community structure
- Cities
- Ethnosociology
- 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.
- Ethnologist
- 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
- Marlene Martin
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1967-1968
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- ca. 1700-1900
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Lukang city, Changhua hsien, Taiwan
- NotesAdditional notes
- Donald Robert DeGlopper
- Thesis (Ph.D.) - Cornell University, 1973
- UM 74-06297
- Includes bibliography
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Taiwanese