Chinese family and society / by Olga Lang.
Reprint. [Hamden, Conn.] : Archon Books, 1968, 1946.
"Copyright, 1946 by Yale University Press, reprinted 1968 with permission"--Title page verso.
Title also in Chinese: 中國之家庭與社會.
Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (p. [369]-384).

Preface / by Karl A. Wittfogel -- Author's preface -- List of tables -- pt. I. The family in old China. State and society ; Functions and structure of the family ; Relationships within the family ; Love, marriage, divorce ; Women in the family and society of old China -- Family and society -- pt. II. The family in contemporary China. The birth of modern China ; The new economic and social environment: Rural China ; The new economic and social environment: Urban China ; The old family under attack ; Love and marriage in contemporary China ; The type and size of the family ; Family coöperation ; Extended kinship ; The clan ; Nepotism ; Husband and wife ; Old men and women ; Children ; Chinese youth ; Friendship ; Summary and conclusions -- Appendix.

Family and kinship in Chinese society / edited by Maurice Freedman.
Reprint. Originally published: Stanford, Calif., Stanford University Press, 1970.
All but one of the papers were originally presented at a conference on kinship in Chinese society, held at Greyston House, Riverdale, New York, Sept. 15-18, 1966, called by the Subcommittee on Chinese Society of the Joint Committee on Contemporary China.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-257).

Introduction / Maurice Freedman -- Developmental process in the Chinese domestic group / Myron Cohen -- Child training and the Chinese family / Margery Wolf -- The families of Chinese farmers / Irene Taeuber -- Family relations in modern Chinese fiction / Ai-li Chin -- Land and lineage in traditional China / Jack Potter -- The Chinese genealogy as a research source / Johanna Meskill -- Ritual aspects of Chinese kinship and marriage / Maurice Freedman -- Chinese kinship and mourning dress / Arthur Wolf -- Chinese kin terms of reference and address / John McCoy -- Japanese kinship: a comparison / John Pelzel.

"Presenting a new approach to the history of Chinese kinship, this book attempts to bridge the gap between anthropological and historical scholarship on the Chinese lineage by considering its development in terms of individual and collective strategies. Based on a wide range of newly available sources such as lineage genealogies and stone inscriptions, as well as oral history and extensive observation of contemporary ritual practice in the field, this work explores the historical development of kinship in villages of the Fuzhou region of southeastern Fujian province.
In the late imperial period (1368-1911), the people of Fuzhou compiled lengthy genealogies, constructed splendid ancestral halls, and performed elaborate collective rituals of ancestral sacrifice, testimony to the importance they attached to organized patrilineal kinship. In their writings on the lineage, members of late imperial elites presented such local behavior as the straightforward expression of universal and eternal principles. In this book, the author shows that kinship in the Fuzhou region was a form of strategic practice that was always flexible and negotiable. In using the concepts and institutions of kinship, individuals and groups redefined them to serve their own purposes, which included dealing with ethnic differentiation, competing for power and status, and formulating effective responses to state policies. Official efforts to promote a neo-Confucian agenda, to register land and population, and to control popular religion drove people to organize themselves on kinship principles and to institutionalize their kinship relationships. Local efforts to turn compliance with official policies, or at least claims of compliance, to local advantage meant that policymakers were continually frustrated. Because kinship was constituted in a complex of representations, it was never stable or fixed, but fluid and multiple. In offering this new perspective on this history of Chinese lineage practices, the author also provides new insights into the nature of cultural integration and state control in traditional Chinese society."