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.

The well-field system in Shang and Chou / Hsu Chung-shu -- Some agricultural implements of the early Chinese / Hsu Chung-shu -- Feudal society of the Chou Dynasty / Chang Yin-lin -- THe investiture ceremony of Chou / Ch'i Ssu-ho -- The Chinese land system before the Ch'in Dynasty / Wu Ch'i-ch'ang -- Population and geography in the two Han Dynasties / Lao Kan -- Great Families of Eastern Han / Yang Lien-sheng -- Early development of manorial economy in Wei and Tsin / Ho Tzu-ch'uan -- Evolution of the status of "dependents" / Yang Chung-i -- The system of equal land allotments in medieval times / Wan Kuo-ting -- Lower castes in the T'ang Dynasty / Yang Chung-i -- Official salaries as revealed in T'ang poetry / Ch'en Yin-k'o -- The church-state conflict in the T'ang Dynasty / Chia Chung-yao -- Social relief during the Sung Dynasty / Hsu I-t'ang -- Periodic fairs in South China in the Sung Dynasty / Ch'uan Han-sheng -- Government Artisans of the Yuan Dynasty / Chu Ch'ing-yuan -- Local tax collectors in the Ming Dynasty / Liang Fang-chung -- The "ten-parts" tax system of Ming / Liang Fang-chung -- Price control and paper currency in Ming / Li Chien-nung -- The Ming system of merchant colonization / Wang Ch'ung-wu -- Frontier horse markets in the Ming Dynasty / Hou Jen-chih -- Manchu-Chinese social and economic conflicts in early Ch'ing / Ma Feng-ch'en -- A ships voyage from Luzon to China in the eighteenth century / Chao Ch'uan-ch'eng -- The land tax in the Yangtse Provinces before and after the Taiping rebellion / Hsia Nai.

La Chine familière. [Kina inifrån. French] / Sven and Cecilia Lindqvist, trans. L. Moltke-Huitfeld.

Written by two young Swedes who studied for two years at Peking University in 1960 and 1961, this book is composed of numerous rather short chapters of very unequal interest, and the whole of which hardly justifies the title; indeed, the reader does not see, in the subjects treated, a "familiar China." But he can find developments on very diverse subjects, some of secondary importance, others particularly attractive. Among these, we will particularly note those dealt with in the chapters entitled "The River State," "Brainwashing," and "Student Life in China." They alone seem to us to be worth reading. The "river state" is one that, in countries where irrigation is a vital need, entails the necessity of an authoritarian government and powerfully and even harshly directed collective action. This form of social state, which the Chinese call "feudal," is very different from that of Western feudalism and is very close to communist dictatorship. The latter, which the authors deem necessary for today's China, therefore has inspiration drawn from the country's natural conditions, much more than from the West. Brainwashing is well known. However, Sven and Cecilia Lindqvist provide a striking description of it, which we believe explains the results very well. The process of depersonalization and the return to a new, rule-compliant personality are explained in a simple and convincing manner. As for the life of foreign students in China, it differs considerably from life in Western universities, in terms of material organization, teaching, and the orientation of minds. The Chinese students the authors speak of refuse to have the usual exchanges of ideas with their foreign comrades, to make comparisons with them. China and the Party possess the truth; the West is a priori in error. It follows from reading this book, according to what the authors say, that China, as they have seen and understood it, is still in a very unstable equilibrium, capable of experiencing catastrophes as well as considerably accelerating the pace of its development. Its path is not definitively drawn. Such an opinion has its value; its prudence and objectivity contrast pleasantly with the opinions generally reported by travelers, who are full of praise or sarcasm about the Chinese communist experience. (from seller description)

Zhongguo shehui zhong de zongjiao : Zongjiao de xiandai shehui gongneng yuqi lishi yinsu zhi yanjiu 中國社會中的宗教 : 宗教的現代社會功能與其歷史因素之研究 / Yang Qingkun zhu 楊慶堃著 ; Fan Lizhu yi 范麗珠譯.
Translation of: Religion in Chinese society: a study of contemporary social functions of religion and some of their historical factors (1961).
Includes bibliographical references and appendices.

"楊慶堃著的"中國社會中的宗教"是研究中國宗教,社會和文化的經典作品,被譽為研究中國宗教的'聖經'.全書對中國宗教進行了非常全面的分析與闡述,詳細考察了中國社會中各種類型的信仰,以及國家政治,經濟和儒家學說的關係,描述了中國社會與宗教的整合狀況.本書試圖回答:在中國社會生活和組織中,宗教承擔了怎樣的功能,從而成為社會生活和組織發展與存在的基礎,而這些功能是以怎樣的結構形式來實現的"--OCLC note.

Contents: Xu 序 / Lu Yaodong 逯耀東 -- Daolun 導論 / Zha Shijie 查時傑 -- Guoshi kuoda mian yan de yi ge kanfa 國史擴大綿延的一個看法 / Yao Congwu 姚從吾 -- Zhongguo minzu de qiyuan yu gouzao 中國民族的起源與構造 / Zheng Dekun 鄭德坤 -- Zhongguo minzu yu wailai wenhua 中國民族與外來文化 / Fu Lecheng 傳樂成 -- Zhongguo chuantong zhengzhi 中國傳統政治 / Qian Mu 錢穆 -- Zhongguo kaoshi zhidu wenhua shehui fengsu de guanxi 中國考試制度與政治文化社會風俗的關係 / Deng Siyu 鄧嗣禹 -- Cong huobi zhidu kan Zhongguo jingji de fazhan 從貨幣制度看中國經濟的發展 / Quan Hansheng 全漢昇 -- Zhongguo shehui daodi shi shenme shehui 中國社會到底是什麼社會 / Tao Xisheng 陶希聖 -- Zhongguo de chuantong shehui 中國的傳統社會 / Jin Yaoji 金耀基 -- Zhongguo de jiazu 中國的家族 / Lei Haizong 雷海宗 -- Zhongguo wenhua zhong zhi meijie renwu 中國文化中之媒介人物 / Yang Liansheng 楊聯陞 -- Bianjiang minzu zai Zhongguo lishi shang de zhongyaoxing 邊疆民族在中國歷史上的重要性 / Tao Jinsheng 陶晉生 -- Zhongguo xin shiqi shidai wenhua de yiban xiangmao 中國新石器時代文化的一般相貎 / Zhang Guangzhi 張光直.

Reprint of the ed. with postscript dated 1973.