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.)

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...

Table of Contents

• 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