G William Skinner
Biographic Data
| ID | 83773 |
|---|---|
| NAME | G William Skinner |
| GIVEN NAMES | G William |
| FAMILY NAME | Skinner |
| SIGNATURE | SKINNER G W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stanford University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 63 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 546 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 61 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1951 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Lineage Organization in Southeastern China
This essay is the work of a social anthropologist but it is not based upon field work. It is concerned with Chinese matters but it is not written by a sinologue. In this essay are the author’s reflections on certain aspects of southeastern Chinese society during the last hundred and fifty years, with attention on the Fukien and Kwangtung region of China has it has specialized not only in large-scale unilineal organization but also in sending peop…
Change and Persistence in Chinese Culture Overseas
From the 17th century right up to the present time, most observers of the Southeast Asian scene—European, indigenous and Chinese alike—have tended to believe that Chinese do not assimilate overseas. By way of challenging the bit of social mythology, it should be noted that many parts of Southeast Asia have been continuously settled by Chinese for several centuries. In both Thailand and Java, there has been a continuity of settlement since at leas…
Grandparental effects on reproductive strategizing
This paper analyzes data from the household registers for two villages in the NÃ ́bi region of central Japan in the late Edo period (1717-1869) to assess how grandparents may have affected reproductive strategizing in stem families. The particulars of t
Family and Reproduction in Southeastern China
Family systems theory holds that the cultural norms of a group's family system critically inform reproductive goals, and in particular the decisions made at each step of the way in building up an offspring set. This paper pursues the link between family system and reproductive behavior with respect to two Chinese speech groups, Cantonese and Hakka, and one of their non-Han neighbors, the Yao. In reviewing the family-cum-gender systems of the thre…
Marketing and social structure in rural China
This article, originally published in three parts in the Journal of Asian Studies (1964-1965), examines the influence of marketing systems on social and economic structures in rural China. Skinner argues that standard marketing areas, formed by the overlapping trade areas of periodic markets, create a nested hierarchy of economic and social integration. These marketing communities, rather than administrative districts, serve as the primary basis …
China's Fertility Transition through Regional Space
Social Science History - Volume 24, Number 3, Fall 2000
China’s Fertility Transition through Regional Space
Key features of reproductive behavior in China vary systematically through space and time. In this article we present an analysis of fertility change in regional space, using a 1% household sample from China’s 1990 population census. Elsewhere,we use the same data to analyze reproductive strategizing, but here we pursue the big picture with a straightforward analysis that takes reported births as an uncomplicated indicator of fertility.The articl…
Social/Cultural Anthropology
Sichuan's Population in the Nineteenth Century
Vol. 8, No. 1 Late Imperial ChinaJune 1987 NOTICE: Due to a series of errors in the editorial process, the version of this article published in the previous issue (vol. 7, no. 2) did not include the author's corrections and, moreover, contained faulty reproductions of the maps. The editors offer their apologies and present the correct version here. The author wishes to stress that this is the only version of the article that has been authorized f…
Sichuan's Population in the Nineteenth Century
Vol. 7, No 2.Late Imperial ChinaDecember 1986 SICHUAN'S POPULATION IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY: LESSONS FROM DISAGGREGATED DATA* G. William Skinner It is well known that, in form at least, official provincial population figures from 1741 to 1898 were aggregations of baojia population registers. Initial compilations were made at county-level yamens; county-level data were then cumulated to give prefectural-level totals, and these were summed in turn…
Presidential Address
sThe developmental trajectories of North China and the Southeast Coast during the middle and late imperial periods are surveyed to illustrate the recurrence of regional macrocycles of development and decline and to show that such cycles may be unsynchronized as between regions. These cases provide a basis for arguing that economic macrocycles are a systemic property-not of provinces or of the empire as a whole but of regional economies viewed as …
In search of the lost Eden — the historiography of the Philippine peasant
Wang Gungwu, Community and Nation: Essays on Southeast Asia and the Chinese. Asian Studies Association of Australia Southeast Asia Publications Series No.6. Heinemann Educational Books, Singapore, 1981. ix + 292pp. Preface, abbreviations, index. Cloth: $24.95. Paper: $12.95. J.A.C. Mackie, ed., Indonesia: The Making of a Nation. Vol. 3, Indonesia: Australian Perspective. Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University, Canberra…
Urban Development in Modern China
China's Island Frontier
The Study of Chinese Society. Essays by Maurice Freedman
The Study of Chinese Society
The Study of Chinese Society. Essays by Maurice Freedman
The Study of Chinese Society
The Chinese City between Two Worlds
Change and Persistence in Thai Society
The City in Late Imperial China
The City in Late Imperial China
The Chinese City Between Two Worlds
A Reply to Potter
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A Reply to Potter
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Marketing and Social Structure in Rural China, Part I
I set forth in this paper a partial description and preliminary analysis of rural marketing in China. This neglected topic has significance with ranges far beyond the disciplinary concerns of economics. It interests anthropologists in particular because marketing structures of the kind described here for China appear to be characteristic of the whole class of civilizations known as "peasant" or "traditional agrarian" societies. In complex societi…
Marketing and social structure in rural China
This article, originally published in three parts in the Journal of Asian Studies (1964-1965), examines the influence of marketing systems on social and economic structures in rural China. Skinner argues that standard marketing areas, formed by the overlapping trade areas of periodic markets, create a nested hierarchy of economic and social integration. These marketing communities, rather than administrative districts, serve as the primary basis …
Lineage Organization in Southeastern China
This essay is the work of a social anthropologist but it is not based upon field work. It is concerned with Chinese matters but it is not written by a sinologue. In this essay are the author’s reflections on certain aspects of southeastern Chinese society during the last hundred and fifty years, with attention on the Fukien and Kwangtung region of China has it has specialized not only in large-scale unilineal organization but also in sending peop…
Chinese Peasants and the Closed Community
Our repertoire of concepts and theories concerning peasantries has been built up through contributions from scholars working in many parts of the world. Latin Americanists and India-wallahs, in particular, have played a major role in the development of models, but we have also heard from specialists in Indonesia, Japan, Europe, the Mediterranean world, and even Africa. But where is China in all this ? Why are students of the world's largest peasa…
Leadership and Power in the Chinese Community of Thailand
Chinese Society in Thailand
Marketing and Social Structure in Rural China Part II
In A.D. 1227, during the Southern Sung, the four hsien on the peninsula in Chekiang which is dominated by Ningpo supported twenty-six rural markets; six and a half centuries later, during the Kuang-hsü reign, there were approximately 170 rural markets in the same territory. Chin-t'ang hsien, Szechwan, had four rural markets at the beginning of the K'ang-hsi reign in 1662; by 1875 the number had increased to thirteen and by 1921 to thirty-two. Rur…
Presidential Address
sThe developmental trajectories of North China and the Southeast Coast during the middle and late imperial periods are surveyed to illustrate the recurrence of regional macrocycles of development and decline and to show that such cycles may be unsynchronized as between regions. These cases provide a basis for arguing that economic macrocycles are a systemic property-not of provinces or of the empire as a whole but of regional economies viewed as …
Marketing and Social Structure in Rural China, Part III
Even before the completion of land reform, the Communist regime had introduced in most parts of China the two new institutions through which it planned eventually to socialize rural trade, namely the state trading companies and the supply and marketing cooperatives. The former, wholly owned by the state and controlled by governmental departments of commerce, were normally established in cities and central market towns. Each company specialized in…
Overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia
Approximately 10 million overseas Chinese reside in Southeast Asia where they have economic power and political significance out of all proportion to their numbers. Southeast Asian governments are determined to loosen the Chinese grip on their national economies, to achieve an unequivocal clarinca tion of the citizenship status of resident Chinese, to end foreign political activity among and to proceed with educational and political integration o…
China's Fertility Transition through Regional Space
Social Science History - Volume 24, Number 3, Fall 2000
The New Sociology in China
Grandparental effects on reproductive strategizing
This paper analyzes data from the household registers for two villages in the NÃ ́bi region of central Japan in the late Edo period (1717-1869) to assess how grandparents may have affected reproductive strategizing in stem families. The particulars of t
Family and Reproduction in Southeastern China
Family systems theory holds that the cultural norms of a group's family system critically inform reproductive goals, and in particular the decisions made at each step of the way in building up an offspring set. This paper pursues the link between family system and reproductive behavior with respect to two Chinese speech groups, Cantonese and Hakka, and one of their non-Han neighbors, the Yao. In reviewing the family-cum-gender systems of the thre…
The Study of Chinese Society. Essays by Maurice Freedman
Chinese Assimilation and Thai Politics
Chinese have been immigrating to Siam for at least six centuries. We are concerned here with the process whereby the descendants of Chinese immigrants become full members of Thai society. Assimilation is, of course, a social process. For the descendants of a given immigrant, its progress is defined by increasing social intercourse with members of Thai society, first public and then private and intimate; and by self-identification in an ever large…
Maurice Freedman 1920-1975
Treacherous River
What the Study of China Can Do for Social Science
In recent years the cry has gone up: Sinology is dead; long live Chinese studies! And in this apothegm, by contrast with its prototype, a fundamental change is implied. Whereas old-time Sinology was given shape by its tools, so that Sinological skills defined the field and became an end in themselves, Chinese studies is shaped by its subject matter and Sinological skills are but means to analytic ends. Whereas traditional Sinology fostered uncrit…
Java's Chinese Minority
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China’s Fertility Transition through Regional Space
Key features of reproductive behavior in China vary systematically through space and time. In this article we present an analysis of fertility change in regional space, using a 1% household sample from China’s 1990 population census. Elsewhere,we use the same data to analyze reproductive strategizing, but here we pursue the big picture with a straightforward analysis that takes reported births as an uncomplicated indicator of fertility.The articl…
Modern Chinese Society, an Analytical Bibliography 1. Publications in Western Languages 1644-1972
The Chinese in Southeast Asia
Peasant Organization in Rural China
DURING the present period of agrarian reform, mobilization, organization and democratization of the agrarian masses by Communist cadres have top priority in China. This reorganization of the Chinese peasantry is an undertaking of unprecedented magnitude, which, if successful, will secure Communist authority and rank among the major social transformations of our era. Over 380 million people, the entire rural population of ethnic Chinese on the mai…
A study in miniature of Chinese population
The author analyses the demographic situation of a rural township in West China. He begins by discussing the geographical setting and historical background of the township, pointing out that the bulk of the population is made up of descendants of Hakka immigrants. In the analysis of the age and sex distribution, special attention is paid to the cultural factors which may affect the reported unequal sex ratio for various age-groups. In the subsequ…
Peasant Organization in Rural China
DURING the present period of agrarian reform, mobilization, organization and democratization of the agrarian masses by Communist cadres have top priority in China. This reorganization of the Chinese peasantry is an undertaking of unprecedented magnitude, which, if successful, will secure Communist authority and rank among the major social transformations of our era. Over 380 million people, the entire rural population of ethnic Chinese on the mai…
The New Sociology in China
A study in miniature of Chinese population
The author analyses the demographic situation of a rural township in West China. He begins by discussing the geographical setting and historical background of the township, pointing out that the bulk of the population is made up of descendants of Hakka immigrants. In the analysis of the age and sex distribution, special attention is paid to the cultural factors which may affect the reported unequal sex ratio for various age-groups. In the subsequ…
Aftermath of Communist Liberation in the Chengtu Plain
HENGTU, the capital of Szechwan province in west China, was '..the last major city on the mainland to be taken by the Communist People's Liberation Army (PLA). It was to be expected, then, that the liberators would, in Chengtu, be able to draw upon more practical experience and to effect a more thoroughly elaborated policy than in other Chinese cities. The obstacles to the Communist program in Chengtu and vicinity were tremendous: less urban mode…
The Chinese in Southeast Asia
Chinese Spirit-Medium Cults in Singapore
Chinese Assimilation and Thai Politics
Chinese have been immigrating to Siam for at least six centuries. We are concerned here with the process whereby the descendants of Chinese immigrants become full members of Thai society. Assimilation is, of course, a social process. For the descendants of a given immigrant, its progress is defined by increasing social intercourse with members of Thai society, first public and then private and intimate; and by self-identification in an ever large…
Chinese Society in Thailand
Overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia
Approximately 10 million overseas Chinese reside in Southeast Asia where they have economic power and political significance out of all proportion to their numbers. Southeast Asian governments are determined to loosen the Chinese grip on their national economies, to achieve an unequivocal clarinca tion of the citizenship status of resident Chinese, to end foreign political activity among and to proceed with educational and political integration o…
Leadership and Power in the Chinese Community of Thailand
China
General and Ethnology
Java's Chinese Minority
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Upper Nankin Street, Singapore
Rural China
The Chinese in New Zealand.Ng Bickleen Fong
General and Ethnology
Social Structure in Southeast Asia
Life and Ritual in Old Siam
This is a collection of essays on Thai culture by one of Thailand's most prominent educators
General and Ethnology
Treacherous River
Marketing and Social Structure in Rural China, Part I
I set forth in this paper a partial description and preliminary analysis of rural marketing in China. This neglected topic has significance with ranges far beyond the disciplinary concerns of economics. It interests anthropologists in particular because marketing structures of the kind described here for China appear to be characteristic of the whole class of civilizations known as "peasant" or "traditional agrarian" societies. In complex societi…
What the Study of China Can Do for Social Science
In recent years the cry has gone up: Sinology is dead; long live Chinese studies! And in this apothegm, by contrast with its prototype, a fundamental change is implied. Whereas old-time Sinology was given shape by its tools, so that Sinological skills defined the field and became an end in themselves, Chinese studies is shaped by its subject matter and Sinological skills are but means to analytic ends. Whereas traditional Sinology fostered uncrit…
Marketing and Social Structure in Rural China Part II
In A.D. 1227, during the Southern Sung, the four hsien on the peninsula in Chekiang which is dominated by Ningpo supported twenty-six rural markets; six and a half centuries later, during the Kuang-hsü reign, there were approximately 170 rural markets in the same territory. Chin-t'ang hsien, Szechwan, had four rural markets at the beginning of the K'ang-hsi reign in 1662; by 1875 the number had increased to thirteen and by 1921 to thirty-two. Rur…
Marketing and Social Structure in Rural China, Part III
Even before the completion of land reform, the Communist regime had introduced in most parts of China the two new institutions through which it planned eventually to socialize rural trade, namely the state trading companies and the supply and marketing cooperatives. The former, wholly owned by the state and controlled by governmental departments of commerce, were normally established in cities and central market towns. Each company specialized in…
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