Lukang

Donald R. DeGlopper is a member of the staff of the Far Eastern Law Division, Law Library, Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. He has taught anthropology and Asian Studies at Cornell and Yale Universities, and been a visiting fellow of the Contemporary China Centre, the Australian National University.

• Preface Glossary Introduction 1. Some Chinese Puzzles 2. In the Shadow Zone: Chinese Personal Relations, Associations, and Cities 3. The City of Lukang 4. Lukang in Space and Time 5. Politics at Lukang 6. Social Structure in Old Lukang 7. Images of Community 8. Personal Networks and Ch'ing-based Groups 9. Using the Model 10. Varieties of Conscious Models Bibliography Name Index Subject Index

"The book is written in a clean, clear style with a wit rare in anthropology. It is attractive as such classics as Ruth Benedict's Patterns of Culture and Raymond Firth's We, the Tikopia. It is important as one of the few (and certainly the very best) account of the social structure of the petty capitalists that were the motor of Chinese economy." — Arthur P. Wolf, Stanford University