A Chinese Pioneer Family : The Lins of Wu-feng, Taiwan, 1729-1895 / Johanna Margarete Menzel Meskill.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Meskill, Johanna Margarete Menzel, author.

Series:

Princeton legacy library.

Studies of the East Asian Institute ; 4941

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Taiwan--Genealogy.

Taiwan.

Lin family.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (397 pages) : illustrations, maps.

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

In an absorbing account of a frontier family's rise to local eminence, from its pioneer days in eighteenth-century Taiwan through its attainment of gentry status there a century later, Johanna Meskill presents not just a family history but a social history of late imperial China as well.Originally published in 1979.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Acknowledgments

Contents

List of Illustrations

Introduction

PART ONE PIONEERS ON A CHINESE FRONTIER

CHAPTER 1. The Solitary Island

CHAPTER 8. Reasons of State

CHAPTER 3. Brave New World

CHAPTER 4. The Pioneer

CHAPTER 5. A New Beginning

PART TWO. THE LINS AND THE CRISIS OF THE CHINESE STATE

CHAPTER 6. Strongmen

CHAPTER 7. The Young General

CHAPTER 8. Testing Time

CHAPTER 9. The Scapegoat

CHAPTER 10. The Trying Years

PART THREE. THE MAKING OF A TAIWANESE GENTRY FAMILY

CHAPTER 11. Renewal

CHAPTER 12. Pillars of the Community

CHAPTER 13. At Home

CHAPTER 14. Wealth and Power

CHAPTER 15. Frontiersmen, Strongmen, Gentlemen

Notes

Bibliography

Glossary

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Bibliography: p. [339]-362.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

9780691629063

0691629064

9780691609997

0691609993

OCLC:

995579706