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A Chinese Beggars' Den

Author : David C. Schak
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN 13 : 0822977109
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)

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Download or read book A Chinese Beggars' Den written by David C. Schak and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 1988-02-15 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fascinating study of a community of Chinese beggars, David Schak offers evidence that challenges widely held theories on poverty. It is a path-breaking, systematic anthropological study that challenges long-held beliefs about poverty, and is one of the few works on beggars available. Over a period of seven years, Schak's fieldwork uncovers a structure of leadership, organizational methods, and alms-getting tactics. Moreover, certain members became upwardly mobile and able to leave this lifestyle. The severe stigma of gambling, adultery, and failure to marry proved the stimulus for a younger generation to leave begging behind.

A Chinese Beggar's Den

Author : David C. Schak
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780608020556
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (25 download)

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Download or read book A Chinese Beggar's Den written by David C. Schak and published by . This book was released on 1988-01-01 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Popular China

Author : Perry Link
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1461641055
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (616 download)

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Download or read book Popular China written by Perry Link and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2001-12-11 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using ingenious research methods, the contributors to this book explore the search for meaning among ordinary people in China today. The subjects of these vivid essays span the social spectrum from hip young entrepreneurs to sweatshop workers and homeless beggars. The issues are equally diverse, ranging from domestic violence to homosexuality to political corruption. The culture of popular China emerges as a mixture of exhilarating new aspirations—as seen in the basketball fans who dream of "flying" like Michael Jordan or Kobe Bryant; rueful cynicism—as bitingly conveyed in the many satirical jingles that circulate by word of mouth; and painful ambivalence. The people depicted here have built their popular culture out of ideas and symbolic practices drawn from old cultural traditions, from concepts about modernity debated during the early twentieth-century republican era, from the legacies of Maoist socialism, and from contemporary global culture. Throughout, the book shows how economic and social changes caused by globalization, in combination with the continuing Party dictatorship, have presented ordinary Chinese with a new array of moral and cultural challenges that they have met in ways that have changed the face of China. Contributions by: Julia F. Andrews, Anita Chan, Deborah S. Davis, Leila Fernández-Stembridge, Robert Geyer, Amy Hanser, Richard Levy, Perry Link, Richard P. Madsen, Andrew Morris, Paul G. Pickowicz, Kuiyi Shen, Liping Wang, Li Zhang, Yuezhi Zhao, and Kate Zhou. ,

“Useless to the State”

Author : Zwia Lipkin
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 1684174260
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (841 download)

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Download or read book “Useless to the State” written by Zwia Lipkin and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In 1911, Joseph Bailie, a professor at Nanjing University, often took his Chinese students to tour Nanjing’s shantytowns. One student, the son of a district magistrate, followed Bailie from hut to hut one rainy day, and was grateful that Bailie opened his eyes to the poverty in his own city. However, twenty years later, when M. R. Schafer, another Nanjing University professor, showed his students a film that included his own photographs of the poor quarters of Nanjing, his students were so upset that they demanded his expulsion from China. Zwia Lipkin explores the reasons for these starkly different reactions. Nanjing in the 1910s was a quiet city compared to 1930s Nanjing, which was by that time the national capital. Nanjing had become a symbol of national authority, aiming not only to become a model of modernization for the rest of China, but also to surpass Paris, London, and Washington. Underlying all of Nanjing’s policies was a concern for the capital’s image and looks—offensive people were allowed to exist as long as they remained invisible. Lipkin exposes both the process of social engineering and the ways in which the suppressed reacted to their abuse. Like Professor Schafer’s movie, this book puts the poor at the center of the picture, defying efforts to make them invisible."

Street Criers

Author : Hanchao Lu
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804751483
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (514 download)

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Download or read book Street Criers written by Hanchao Lu and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a rich and comprehensive study of beggars’ culture and the institution of mendicancy in China from late imperial times to the mid-twentieth century, with a glance at the resurgence of beggars in China today. Generously illustrated, the book brings to life the concepts and practices of mendicancy including organized begging, state and society relations as reflected in the issues of poverty, public opinions of beggars and various factors that contribute to almsgiving, the role of gender in begging, and street people and Communist politics. Panoramically, the reader will see that the culture and institution of Chinese mendicancy, which had its origins in earlier centuries, remained remarkably consistent through time and space and that there were perennial and lively interactions between the world of beggars and mainstream society.

Urban Spaces in Contemporary China

Author : Deborah Davis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521479431
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (794 download)

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Download or read book Urban Spaces in Contemporary China written by Deborah Davis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995-07-28 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the impact of post-Mao reforms on the economic, social and cultural dimensions of China's cities.

Demon Hordes and Burning Boats

Author : Paul R. Katz
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791426616
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (266 download)

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Download or read book Demon Hordes and Burning Boats written by Paul R. Katz and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a lively description of how the cult of a popular plague-fighting deity named Marshal Wen arose and spread in late imperial China.

Guilty of Indigence

Author : Janet Y. Chen
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 069116195X
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book Guilty of Indigence written by Janet Y. Chen and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2013-12-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early twentieth century, a time of political fragmentation and social upheaval in China, poverty became the focus of an anguished national conversation about the future of the country. Investigating the lives of the urban poor in China during this critical era, Guilty of Indigence examines the solutions implemented by a nation attempting to deal with "society's most fundamental problem." Interweaving analysis of shifting social viewpoints, the evolution of poor relief institutions, and the lived experiences of the urban poor, Janet Chen explores the development of Chinese attitudes toward urban poverty and of policies intended for its alleviation. Chen concentrates on Beijing and Shanghai, two of China's most important cities, and she considers how various interventions carried a lasting influence. The advent of the workhouse, the denigration of the nonworking poor as "social parasites," efforts to police homelessness and vagrancy--all had significant impact on the lives of people struggling to survive. Chen provides a crucially needed historical lens for understanding how beliefs about poverty intersected with shattering historical events, producing new welfare policies and institutions for the benefit of some, but to the detriment of others. Drawing on vast archival material, Guilty of Indigence deepens the historical perspective on poverty in China and reveals critical lessons about a still-pervasive social issue.

Soulstealers

Author : Philip A KUHN
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674039777
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Soulstealers written by Philip A KUHN and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Midway through the reign of the Ch'ien-lung emperor, Hungli, mass hysteria broke out among the common people. It was feared that sorcerers were roaming the land, clipping off the ends of men's queues (the braids worn by royal decree) and chanting magical incantations over them in order to steal the souls of their owners. In a fascinating chronicle of this epidemic of fear and the official prosecution of soulstealers that ensued, Philip Kuhn opens a window on the world of eighteenth-century China.

China Voyager

Author : Willliam J. Haas
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315481278
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)

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Download or read book China Voyager written by Willliam J. Haas and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-09-16 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of an important but little-known American scientist that evokes the issues of religious and secular beliefs and the evolution of Chinese scientific and educational institutions during the early 1900s.

Begging as a Path to Progress

Author : Kate Swanson
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820331805
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Begging as a Path to Progress written by Kate Swanson and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining beggars' organized migration networks, as well as the degree to which children can express agency and fulfill personal ambitions through begging, Swanson argues that Calhuasí, Equador's beggars are capable of canny engagement with the forces of change.

Give and Take

Author : Maren A. Ehlers
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 1684175895
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (841 download)

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Download or read book Give and Take written by Maren A. Ehlers and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-10-26 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Give and Take offers a new history of government in Tokugawa Japan (1600–1868), one that focuses on ordinary subjects: merchants, artisans, villagers, and people at the margins of society such as outcastes and itinerant entertainers. Most of these individuals are now forgotten and do not feature in general histories except as bystanders, protestors, or subjects of exploitation. Yet despite their subordinate status, they actively participated in the Tokugawa polity because the state was built on the principle of reciprocity between privilege-granting rulers and duty-performing status groups. All subjects were part of these local, self-governing associations whose members shared the same occupation. Tokugawa rulers imposed duties on each group and invested them with privileges, ranging from occupational monopolies and tax exemptions to external status markers. Such reciprocal exchanges created permanent ties between rulers and specific groups of subjects that could serve as conduits for future interactions.This book is the first to explore how high and low people negotiated and collaborated with each other in the context of these relationships. It takes up the case of one domain—Ōno in central Japan—to investigate the interactions between the collective bodies in domain society as they addressed the problem of poverty."

Street Culture in Chengdu

Author : Di Wang
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804747783
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (477 download)

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Download or read book Street Culture in Chengdu written by Di Wang and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the lively street culture in Chengdu from 1870 to 1930, this book explores the relationship between urban commoners and public space, the role of community and neighborhood in public life, and how the reform movement and Republican revolution transformed everyday life in this inland city.

Area Bibliography of China

Author : Richard T. Wang
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810833500
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (335 download)

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Download or read book Area Bibliography of China written by Richard T. Wang and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A combination of scholarly, commercial, and popular interests has generated a large quantity of literature on every aspect of Chinese life during the past two decades. This bibliography reflects these combined interests; it is broken up into sections by subject headings, and cross-references refer the researcher to related topics.

Polyandry and Wife-Selling in Qing Dynasty China

Author : Matthew H. Sommer
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520287037
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Polyandry and Wife-Selling in Qing Dynasty China written by Matthew H. Sommer and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Polyandry. "Getting a husband to support a husband." Attitudes of families, communities, and women toward polyandry. The intermediate range of practice -- Wife-selling. Anatomy of a wife sale. Analysis of prices in wife sales. Negotiations between men in wife sales. Wives, natal families, and children. Four variations on a theme -- Polyandry and wife-selling in Qing law. Formal law and central court interpretation from Ming through high Qing. Absolutism versus pragmatism in central court treatment of wife sales. Flexible adjudication of routine cases in the local courts.

Contesting Citizenship in Urban China

Author : Dorothy J. Solinger
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520217969
Total Pages : 467 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Contesting Citizenship in Urban China written by Dorothy J. Solinger and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1999-05-17 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Post-Mao market reforms in China have led to a massive migration of rural peasants toward the cities. Denied urban residency, this "floating population" provides labour but loses out on government benefits. This study challenges the notion that markets promote rights and legal equality.

Welfare, Ethnicity and Altruism

Author : Frank Salter
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135772320
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (357 download)

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Download or read book Welfare, Ethnicity and Altruism written by Frank Salter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-03-07 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welfare, Ethnicity, and Altruism applies the controversial theory of 'Ethnic Nepotism', first formulated by Irenäus Eibl-Eibesfeldt and Pierre van den Berghe, to the modern welfare state (both are authors in this volume). This theory states that ethnic groups resemble large families whose members are prone to cooperate due to 'kin altruism'. Recent empirical findings in economics and political science offer confirmatory evidence. The book presents two separate studies that compare welfare expenditures around the world, both indicating that the more ethnically mixed a population becomes, the greater is its resistance to redistributive policies. These results point to profound inconsistencies within ideologies of both left and right regarding ethnicity.