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Lineage organization in southeastern China

01 Jan 1960-
TL;DR: In this article, the author's reflections on certain aspects of southeastern Chinese society during the last hundred and fifty years, with attention on the Fukien and Kwangtung region of China has specialized not only in large-scale unilineal organization but also in sending people overseas.
Abstract: This essay is the work of a social anthropologist but it is not based upon field work. It is concerned with Chinese matters but it is not written by a sinologue. In this essay are the author’s reflections on certain aspects of southeastern Chinese society during the last hundred and fifty years, with attention on the Fukien and Kwangtung region of China has it has specialized not only in large-scale unilineal organization but also in sending people overseas.
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01 Jan 1998
TL;DR: This paper used a comparative approach to explain why China's role in the world economy has changed so dramatically in the last thousand years and concluded that China is likely to resume its natural role as the world's largest economy by 2015, thus regaining the position it had held until the end of the nineteenth century.
Abstract: This book is unique in its depth of perspective. It uses a comparative approach to explain why China’s role in the world economy has changed so dramatically in the last thousand years. It concludes that China is likely to resume its natural role as the world’s largest economy by the year 2015, thus regaining the position it had held until the end of the nineteenth century. The study provides a major reassessment of the scale and scope of China’s resurgence over the past half century, employing quantitative measurement techniques which are standard practice in OECD countries, but which have not hitherto been available for China. Written by the author of many studies on comparative economic history, including two best sellers for the OECD Development Centre, this book is essential reading for all those who seek to understand the role of China in the world economy, in the past, as well as in the present and the future.

671 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, a partial description and preliminary analysis of rural marketing in China is presented, where the authors show that marketing structures of the kind described here for China appear to be characteristic of the whole class of civilizations known as "peasant" or "traditional agrarian" societies.
Abstract: I set forth in this paper a partial description and preliminary analysis of rural marketing in China. This neglected topic has significance with ranges far beyond the disciplinary concerns of economics. It interests anthropologists in particular because marketing structures of the kind described here for China appear to be characteristic of the whole class of civilizations known as “peasant” or “traditional agrarian” societies. In complex societies of this important type, marketing structures inevitably shape local social organization and provide one of the crucial modes for integrating myriad peasant communities into the single social system which is the total society. The Chinese case would appear to be strategic for the comparative study of peasant marketing in traditional agrarian societies because the integrative task accomplished there was uniquely large; because the exceptional longevity and stability of Chinese society have allowed the marketing system in many regions to reach full maturity prior to the beginnings of modernization; and because available documentation of Chinese marketing over several centuries provides rich resources for the study of systemic development—of change within tradition.

552 citations

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01 Jan 1964
TL;DR: In this article, a partial description and preliminary analysis of rural marketing in China is presented, and the authors show that marketing structures of the kind described here for China appear to be characteristic of the whole class of civilizations known as "peasant" or "traditional agrarian" societies.
Abstract: I set forth in this paper a partial description and preliminary analysis of rural marketing in China. This neglected topic has significance that ranges far beyond the disciplinary concerns of economics. It interests anthropologists in particular because marketing structures of the kind described here for China appear to be characteristic of the whole class of civilizations known as “peasant” or “traditional agrarian” societies. In complex societies of this important type, marketing structures...

404 citations

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TL;DR: Anthropological kinship theory is explored for potential contributions to a theory of family business in this article, where the costs and benefits of a role for kinship in business are considered.
Abstract: Anthropological kinship theory is explored for potential contributions to a theory of family business. This article considers the costs and benefits of a role for kinship in business. Both derive f...

338 citations


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  • ...…the other pole again: short-term balanced reciprocity (Sahlins, 1972, pp. 194-196) and “the unidirectional [rather than accommodating] aspect of property” (Schweitzer, 2000a, p. 212; also Fortes, 1969; Freedman, 1958, pp. 26-27; Lomnitz & Pérez-Lizaur, 1987, p. 128; Marcus with Hill, 1992, p. 41)....

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27 Aug 2007
TL;DR: Li et al. as discussed by the authors discussed the limitations of formal party and bureaucratic institutions and the structure of solidary groups in the context of local governance in rural China, and proposed a framework for local governance.
Abstract: 1. Governance and informal institutions of accountability 2. Decentralization and local governmental performance 3. Local governmental performance: assessing village public goods provision 4. Informal accountability and the structure of solidary groups 5. Temples and churches in rural China 6. Lineages and local governance 7. Accountability and village democratic reforms 8. The limitations of formal party and bureaucratic institutions 9. Conclusion.

282 citations