A Chinese Pioneer Family : : The Lins of Wu-feng, Taiwan, 1729-1895 / / Johanna Margarete Menzel Meskill.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Archive (pre 2000) eBook Package
• VerfasserIn: Meskill, Johanna Margarete Menzel,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2017]; ©1979
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Studies of the East Asian Institute ; 5094
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (394 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Acknowledgments --; Contents --; List of Illustrations --; Introduction --; PART ONE PIONEERS ON A CHINESE FRONTIER --; CHAPTER 1. The Solitary Island --; CHAPTER 8. Reasons of State --; CHAPTER 3. Brave New World --; CHAPTER 4. The Pioneer --; CHAPTER 5. A New Beginning --; PART TWO. THE LINS AND THE CRISIS OF THE CHINESE STATE --; CHAPTER 6. Strongmen --; CHAPTER 7. The Young General --; CHAPTER 8. Testing Time --; CHAPTER 9. The Scapegoat --; CHAPTER 10. The Trying Years --; PART THREE. THE MAKING OF A TAIWANESE GENTRY FAMILY --; CHAPTER 11. Renewal --; CHAPTER 12. Pillars of the Community --; CHAPTER 13. At Home --; CHAPTER 14. Wealth and Power --; CHAPTER 15. Frontiersmen, Strongmen, Gentlemen --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Glossary --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781400886418; 9783110649680; 9783110442496
• DOI: 10.1515/9781400886418
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Johanna Margarete Menzel Meskill.

In an absorbing account of a frontier family's rise to local eminence, from its pioneer days in eighteenth-century Taiwan through its attainment of gentry status there a century later, Johanna Meskill presents not just a family history but a social history of late imperial China as well.Originally published in 1979.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.