Practicing Kinship: Lineage and Descent in Late Imperial China.(Reviews)(Book Review)

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Practicing Kinship: Lineage and Descent in Late Imperial China. By Michael Szonyi (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2002. xii plus 313 pp. $49.50).

The ability to do fieldwork in the People's Republic of China has enabled historians like Michael Szonyi to add historical depth to the anthropological scholarship on Chinese social organization. During the 1990s Szonyi visited all of the one to two hundred villages on Nantai Island, outside the city of Fuzhou, in Fujian province. He observed seasonal and ancestral rituals, interviewed local residents, and collected written ...

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