UNDER THE ANCESTORS' SHADOW : Chinese Culture and Personality
by Francis L. K. Hsu
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New York, NY: Columbia Univ Press, 1948. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. New/No Jacket. Jim Lee (Illustrations). Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Beige linen boards/Fine. DJ/None. Socio-anthropological study of West Town, a small, semi-rural village in the southwestern of Yunnan, China by Francis L.K. Hsu (1909-2000), renowned cross-cultural anthropologist and former President (1977-78) of the American Anthropological Assoc. Based on fieldwork conducted during 1941 to 1943 in a region relatively shielded from social changes brought about from exposure to Western thought and consequences of World War II, as well as information drawn from Local Gazetteers ("Local Histories"), this classic work is dedicated to Ralph Linton. 317 pgs, in 11 chapters: I, Introduction; II, Yin Chai & Yang Chai: Worldly & Otherworldly Residences; III, Life & Work Under the Ancestral Roof; IV, Continuing the Incense Smoke; V, Propagation of the Ancestral Line; VI, How Ancestors Live; VII, Communion with Ancestors; VIII, Introduction to the Ancestral Ways; IX, The Ancestors' Shadow; X, Culture & Personality; and XI, Wider China, followed by appendices. Fine copy less dustjacket.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- UNDER THE ANCESTORS' SHADOW : Chinese Culture and Personality
- Author
- Francis L. K. Hsu
- Illustrator
- Jim Lee (Illustrations)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New New
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Thus
- Publisher
- Columbia Univ Press
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1948
- Keywords
- Anthropolgy/Ethnology/China 1940s/Yunnan/Cultural Studies
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- Anthropology/Ethnology;
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