China's Gentry: Essays on Rural-Urban Relations (Revised)

Author/Contributor(s):	Fei, Hsiao-Tung ; Redfield, Margaret Park
Publisher:	University of Chicago Press
Date:	09/15/1980
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

These seven essays on the structure of Chinese society are based on articles contributed by Fei to Chinese newspapers in 1947 and 1948. Six case histories from a study of the gentry by Yung-teh Chow are appended.

The chief interest and charm of this book lie in the fact that it is not directed to the Western reader; these were studies written in Chinese, by an erudite Chinese, for a Chinese public. . . . Mrs. Redfield is to be complimented for her own careful research in preparing this translation for a non-Chinese public.--Robert F. Spencer, American Anthropologist