Maurice Freedman, (born Dec. 11, 1920, London, Eng.—died July 14, 1975, London), British scholar who was one of the world’s leading experts on Chinese anthropology. After studying English at King’s College, London, and serving in the Royal Artillery in World War II, Freedman enrolled as a graduate student of anthropology at the London School of Economics and Political Science,...(展开全部)

郑振满，1955年生，福建仙游人。1982年师从傅衣凌教授，研究明清社会经济史，1989年获历史学博士学位。历任厦门大学历史系教授、历史系主任、人文学院副院长，现任厦门大学历史系特聘教授、民间历史文献研究中心主任。主要学术著作有《明清福建家族组织与社会变迁》《乡族与国家：多元视野中的闽台传统社会》、Ritual Alliances of the Putian Plain（合著）。主编《民间信仰与社会空间》《福建宗教碑铭汇编》《民间历史文献论丛》《福建民间契约文书》。

郑振满，1955年生，福建仙游人。1982年师从傅衣凌教授，研究明清社会经济史，1989年获历史学博士学位。历任厦门大学历史系教授、历史系主任、人文学院副院长，现任厦门大学历史系特聘教授、民间历史文献研究中心主任。主要学术著作有《明清福建家族组织与社会变迁》《乡族与国家：多元视野中的闽台传统社会》、Ritual Alliances of the Putian Plain（合著）。主编《民间信仰与社会空间》《福建宗教碑铭汇编》《民间历史文献论丛》《福建民间契约文书》。

This book summarizes twenty years of the author's work in historical anthropology and documents his argument that in China, ritual provided the social glue that law provided in the West. The book offers a readable history of the special lineage institutions for which south China has been noted and argues that these institutions fostered the mechanisms that enabled south China t...(展开全部)

Presenting a new approach to the history of Chinese kinship, this book attempts to bridge the gap between anthropological and historical scholarship on the Chinese lineage by considering its development in terms of individual and collective strategies. Based on a wide range of newly available sources such as lineage genealogies and stone inscriptions, as well as oral history an...(展开全部)

This book summarizes twenty years of the author's work in historical anthropology and documents his argument that in China, ritual provided the social glue that law provided in the West. The book offers a readable history of the special lineage institutions for which south China has been noted and argues that these institutions fostered the mechanisms that enabled south China t...(展开全部)

Presenting a new approach to the history of Chinese kinship, this book attempts to bridge the gap between anthropological and historical scholarship on the Chinese lineage by considering its development in terms of individual and collective strategies. Based on a wide range of newly available sources such as lineage genealogies and stone inscriptions, as well as oral history an...(展开全部)

Tracing descent from common ancestors was extremely important in imperial China. Members of such lineage communities sacrificed to ancestors in periodic ceremonies, maintained written genealogies to demonstrate their descent, and held some properties in common. This book, based on extensive original research, provides evidence that the practice originated much earlier than prev...(展开全部)

On a visit to eastern Hui'an in 1994, Sara Friedman was surprised to see a married woman reluctant to visit her conjugal home. The author would soon learn that this practice was typical of the area, along with distinctive female dress styles, gender divisions of labor, and powerful same-sex networks. These customs, she would learn, have long distinguished villages in this coast...(展开全部)

Huizhou studies the construction of local identity through kinship in the prefecture of Huizhou, the most prominent merchant stronghold of Ming China. Employing an array of untapped genealogies and other sources, Qitao Guo explores how developments in the sociocultural, religious, and gender realms from the fifteenth to sixteenth centuries intertwined to shape Huizhou identity ...(展开全部)