China's Motor : : A Thousand Years of Petty Capitalism / / Hill Gates.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Gates, Hill,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]; ©1997
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (344 p.)

"Gates is a Marxist anthropologist with chutzpah. Best known for her compelling portrayal of contemporary working-class Taiwanese, she considerably broadens and deepens her analysis of China's socioeconomy in this work."—ChoiceThis monumental work reveals the continuities that underlie the changing surface of Chinese life from late imperial days to modern times. With a perspective that encompasses a thousand years of Chinese history, China's Motor provides a view of the social, economic, and political principles that have prompted people in widely varying circumstances to act, believe, and behave in ways that are labeled as Chinese.This original reinterpretation of Chinese culture, as meticulous in detail as it is vast in scope, will revise not only the study of China but also the very terms of social analysis.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chinese Dynasties of the Late Empire -- CHINA'S HEARTLAND -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Tributary and Petty-Capitalist Modes of Production -- 3. Motion in the System -- 4. Cities and Space -- 5. Patricorporations: The State and the Household -- 6. Patricorporations: The Lineage -- 7. Dowry and Brideprice -- 8. Folk Ideologies: Rulers and Commoners -- 9. Folk Ideologies: Women and Men -- 10. Petty Capitalism in Taiwan -- 11. Re-creating the Tributary in China -- 12. Conclusions -- Appendix: Dowry to Wedding-Cost Ratios -- Sources -- General Index -- Index of Place Names