A Chinese Pioneer Family : : The Lins of Wu-feng, Taiwan, 1729-1895 /

A Chinese Pioneer Family : : The Lins of Wu-feng, Taiwan, 1729-1895 / / 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.Origina...

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Meskill, Johanna Margarete Menzel,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2017]
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Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Series:Studies of the East Asian Institute ; 5094
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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --   |t Acknowledgments --   |t Contents --   |t List of Illustrations --   |t Introduction --   |t PART ONE PIONEERS ON A CHINESE FRONTIER --   |t CHAPTER 1. The Solitary Island --   |t CHAPTER 8. Reasons of State --   |t CHAPTER 3. Brave New World --   |t CHAPTER 4. The Pioneer --   |t CHAPTER 5. A New Beginning --   |t PART TWO. THE LINS AND THE CRISIS OF THE CHINESE STATE --   |t CHAPTER 6. Strongmen --   |t CHAPTER 7. The Young General --   |t CHAPTER 8. Testing Time --   |t CHAPTER 9. The Scapegoat --   |t CHAPTER 10. The Trying Years --   |t PART THREE. THE MAKING OF A TAIWANESE GENTRY FAMILY --   |t CHAPTER 11. Renewal --   |t CHAPTER 12. Pillars of the Community --   |t CHAPTER 13. At Home --   |t CHAPTER 14. Wealth and Power --   |t CHAPTER 15. Frontiersmen, Strongmen, Gentlemen --   |t Notes --   |t Bibliography --   |t Glossary --   |t Index 
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