Harrell
Biographic Data
| ID | 2676 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Harrell |
| FAMILY NAME | Harrell |
| SIGNATURE | HARRELL |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Washington |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6298-6712 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 73 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 525 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 73 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Holocene and recent valley-bottom sediment storage decouples natural and anthropogenic hillslope erosion from sediment delivery to streams at time scales of 10 1 –10 4 yr in a third-order Yangtze Rive…
To assess the time scales and relative importance of temporal decoupling between hillslope erosion and the introduction of sediment to streams in a Yangtze River headwater basin, we used multiple techniques to date sediments in alluvial fans and terraces in a third-order stream valley draining a 30-km 2 catchment in SW Sichuan, China. Poorly sorted angular sediments in tributary-junction alluvial fans ranged in age from 11261 BCE to 1844 CE, and …
The Peaks and Ranges of Ecosystem Models
This response to commentaries by Micah Muscolino, Judith Shapiro, Chris Courtney, and Peter Perdue considers whether An Ecological History of Modern China is too political and not ecological enough or too ecological and not political enough; whether it is biased either in favor of or against the Chinese Communist Party regime; whether ecologically based periodization provides a valuable new perspective on the history of the People’s Republic of C…
An Ecological History of Modern China
How mega-dams, industrial agriculture, and other developments challenge ecosystem resilience Is environmental degradation an inevitable result of economic development? Can ecosystems be restored once government officials and the public are committed to doing so? These questions are at the heart of An Ecological History of Modern China , a comprehensive account of China's transformation since the founding of the People's Republic from the perspect…
Prometheus Brings Water: Development and Fix-Fixing in China
hen Deng Xiaoping proclaimed in 1992 that 'only development is a solid truth' () (Guang'an Ribao 2016), he was not saying anything new.Not only did his remarks accord with those of capitalist development theorists like W.W. Rostow (1960) and with the ambitious goals of both late-Qing self-strengtheners and the Republican modernists who followed them; they were also in complete agreement with the ambitions of his own party in its earlier, more exp…
The Four Horsemen of the Ecopocalypse: The Agricultural Ecology of the Great Leap Forward
Resilience, Rationalism, and Response in Modern Chinese Social-Ecological Systems
The Evolution of the East Asian Eco-Developmental State
The four major countries of East Asia-China, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan-form one of the most densely populated regions on earth, and through the course of the late 20th and early 21st centuries the region experienced some of its fastest economic growth, propelled by the policies of state-led developmentalism. As a result of this density and these policies, the four countries in turn became some of the most environmentally degraded. As each ac…
Introduction: Change and Contention in Taiwan’s Cultural Scene
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book analyzes the literary aspect of the feminist critique. It examines a more explicitly cultural thesis, namely Herman Kahn's assertion that it is Confucian values of hard work, loyalty and considerateness that have enabled the spectacular economic progress of several East Asian areas, including Taiwan. The book illustrates through …
Cultural Change in Postwar Taiwan
Introduction - change and contention in Taiwan's cultural scene, Stevan Harrell and Huang Chun-chieh. Part 1 Culture in crisis - views of the past and outlooks for the future: cultural policy in postwar Taiwan, Edwin A. Winckler civil society and Taiwan's quest for identity, Thomas B. Gold Taiwan and the Confucian aspiration - toward the twenty-first century, Huang C.C. and Wu Kuang-ming. Part 2 Culture at the individual level - education and att…
A Long View of Resilience in the Chengdu Plain, China
The Chengdu Plain is an agroecosystem that depends on the Dujiangyan (Capital River Weir) for its functioning. This system has been sustained at high levels of productivity for more than two thousand years, experiencing only a few disturbances that have disrupted its functioning. Integrating field and documentary research on ecological, market, and governance factors, this article discusses the remarkable resilience of this system from the late Q…
Theory and practice of bilingual education in China: Lessons from Liangshan Yi autonomous prefecture
Bilingual education in China’s ethnic minority regions can serve as a test case of the ability of governments to maintain linguistic pluralism in the face of rapid social change and the spread of standard national languages. In pursuit of its policy of multilingualism, since the late 1970s China has conducted ambitious programs of bilingual education for many of its 55 officially recognized shaoshu minzu, or ‘minority nationalities,’ including th…
Transforming patriarchy: Chinese families in the twenty-first century
Each successive wave of revolution to hit modern China-political, cultural, and economic-has radically reshaped Chinese society. Whereas patriarchy defined the familial social structure for thousands of years, changing realities in the last hundred years have altered and even reversed long-held expectations. Transforming Patriarchy explores the private and public dimensions of these changes in present-day China. Patriarchy is not dead, but it is …
Forest is Forest and Meadows are Meadows: Cultural Landscapes and Bureaucratic Landscapes in Jiuzhaigou County, Sichuan
Present-day landscapes are shaped by historical forces that combine natural change (generated by climate, geological processes etc.) with anthropogenic change (locally generated in interaction with larger political and economic forces). In the Jiuzhaigou region of Northern Sichuan, humans have shaped landscapes to their needs for at least 3,500 years. In recent centuries, landscape change has probably accelerated, particularly in response to chan…
Dual-function forests in the returning farmland to forest program and the flexibility of environmental policy in China
Traditional Livelihoods, Conservation and Meadow Ecology in Jiuzhaigou National Park, Sichuan, China
Four Films on a North Chinese Village
Education or Migrant Labor: A New Dilemma in China's Borderlands
Early21st-century China is undergoing several radical transformations that are profoundly affecting its physical, social, and cultural fabric. Not as dramatic, perhaps, as the earlier series of Land Reform, collectivization, Great Leap Forward, Cultural Revolution, and final decollectivization that framed the era of Mao Zedong's state socialism, the current processes of urbanization, labor migration, universalization of education (Kipnis 2011), t…
Ways of Being Ethnic in Southwest China
Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295804071 Drawing on extensive fieldwork conducted in the 1980s and 1990s in southern Sichuan, this pathbreaking study examines the nature of ethnic consciousness and ethnic relations among local communities, focusing on the Nuosu (classified as Yi by the Chinese government), Prmi, Naze, and Han. It argues that even within the same regional social system, ethnic identity is formulated, perceived, and promoted …
The History of the History of the Yi
MAP 2. Yi areas of Sichuan, Yunnan, and Guizhou Cultural diversity was similarly puzzling.The Yi of Yunnan (outside the northwestern corner of the province, anyway), while showing considerable diversity among themselves, still seem to possess some traits in common, such as lowland agriculture, Han-style housing, and patrilocal marriage.But their society is structured on very
Introduction: Civilizing Projects and the Reaction to Them
Encounters on China's Ethnic Frontiers 5.This is illustrated beautifully in a related context by the richh' symbolic play M. Butterfly by Da\'id Henry Hwang, in which a European diplomat has a decades-long sexual atfair with a Chinese opera singer, who turns out in the end to be a man.The subordinate people (in this case, clearly the Chinese, or e\'en the Orient, in Said's broader sense) are unconsciously feminizcd; C\'en the Chinese man becomes …
Fieldwork Connections: The Fabric of Ethnographic Collaboration in China and America
A White Guy Discovers Anthropology
Cultural Encounters on China’s Ethnic Frontiers
China's exploitation by Western imperialism is well known, but the imperialist treatment within China of ethnic minorities has been little explored. Around the geographic periphery of China, as well as some of the less accessible parts of the interior, and even in its cities, live a variety of peoples of different origins, languages, ecological adaptations, and cultures. These people have interacted for centuries with the Han Chinese majority, wi…
Fertility Decline in Rural China: A Comparative Analysis
Many models have been proposed to explain both the rapidity of China’s fertility decline after the 1960s and the differential timing of the decline in different places. In particular, scholars argue over whether deliberate policies of fertility control, institutional changes, or general modernization factors contribute most to changes in fertility behavior. Here the authors adopt an ethnographically grounded behavioral—institutional approach to a…
Social-ecological Resilience of a Nuosu Community-linked Watershed, Southwest Sichuan, China
Urgenson, L. S., R. K. Hagmann, A. C. Henck, S. Harrell, T. M. Hinckley, S. Shepler, B. L. Grub, and P. M. Chi. 2010. Social-ecological resilience of a Nuosu community-linked watershed, southwest Sichuan, China. Ecology and Society 15(4): 2. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-03568-150402
Cultural Encounters on China’s Ethnic Frontiers
China's exploitation by Western imperialism is well known, but the imperialist treatment within China of ethnic minorities has been little explored. Around the geographic periphery of China, as well as some of the less accessible parts of the interior, and even in its cities, live a variety of peoples of different origins, languages, ecological adaptations, and cultures. These people have interacted for centuries with the Han Chinese majority, wi…
Ethnicity, Local Interests, and the State: Yi Communities in Southwest China
People who are not members of the Han Chinese majority and who are officially classified as members of the Yi minzu ('ethnic group') inhabit many villages within fifty kilometers of the industrial city of Panzhihua (formerly Dukou) at the southernmost point of Sichuan province. These people differ widely from each other in language and other cultural traits and in the nature of their relationship to their non-Yi neighbors. Of three Yi communities…
Why Do the Chinese Work So Hard: Reflections on an Entrepreneurial Ethic
The Concept of Fate in Chinese Folk Ideology
Fate was an important concept in traditional Chinese folk culture, and in the culture of the elite. This much is uncontroversial. But what the concept was about, what it meant and how it related to class hegemony, is a matter open to dispute. The relationship of any folk ideology to the hegemonic ideology of the society is a complex one. We can perhaps best conceive this relationship as a compound of two ideal types. In the first the folk ideolog…
Dowry Systems in Complex Societies
Definition et analyse transculturelle des divers systemes de compensations matrimoniales et de dots a partir des travaux de J. Goody, G. P. Murdoch, D. R. White en particulier. Division sexuelle du travail, statut social partiellement ou totalement determinee par la richesse, incidence sur les relations de parente et sur l'economie
The History of the History of the Yi, Part II
The People’s Republic of China (PRC) is, according to its constitution, “a unified country of diverse nationalities” (tongyide duominzu guojia; see Wang Guodong, 1982: 9). The degree to which this admirable political ideal has actually been respected has varied throughout the history of the PRC: taken seriously in the early and mid-1950s, it was systematically ignored during the twenty years of High Socialism from the late 1950s to the early 1980…
Linguistics and hegemony in China
La constitution de la Republique populaire de Chine a entraine une politique linguistique officielle visant a l'egalite des droits des differents groupes ethniques (sans privilege pour le groupe ethnique Han). L'auteur tente de cerner la maniere dont ce projet de politique ideale s'applique effectivement dans la realite et les problemes qui en decoulent : classification et categorisation des langues, standardisation et langue ecrite, enseignement
Dual-function forests in the returning farmland to forest program and the flexibility of environmental policy in China
The Anthropology of Reform and the Reform of Anthropology: Anthropological Narratives of Recovery and Progress in China
Since the beginning of China's Reform and Opening policy in 1978, the anthropological study of China has revived, and anthropology as a discipline has revived in China. Chinese anthropologists have become part of the world community of anthropologists. Anthropology in and about China has described a society occupied both with recovery from the cultural devastation of High Socialism and with progress toward an uncertain modernity. These narratives…
Syncretic Sects in Chinese Society: An Introduction
The Concept of Soul in Chinese Folk Religion
While all variants of Chinese religion assume the existence of one or more "souls"(ling-hun),very little has been said about what these "souls" are or how the concept varies from one religious tradition to another. This article explores the "soul" in the folk variant of Chinese religion, arguing that while the "soul" may be conceived as multiple in abstract, theoretical discussions, people actually behave as if the "soul" were a single entity. To…
Theory and practice of bilingual education in China: Lessons from Liangshan Yi autonomous prefecture
Bilingual education in China’s ethnic minority regions can serve as a test case of the ability of governments to maintain linguistic pluralism in the face of rapid social change and the spread of standard national languages. In pursuit of its policy of multilingualism, since the late 1970s China has conducted ambitious programs of bilingual education for many of its 55 officially recognized shaoshu minzu, or ‘minority nationalities,’ including th…
Social-ecological Resilience of a Nuosu Community-linked Watershed, Southwest Sichuan, China
Urgenson, L. S., R. K. Hagmann, A. C. Henck, S. Harrell, T. M. Hinckley, S. Shepler, B. L. Grub, and P. M. Chi. 2010. Social-ecological resilience of a Nuosu community-linked watershed, southwest Sichuan, China. Ecology and Society 15(4): 2. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-03568-150402
Fertility Decline in Rural China: A Comparative Analysis
Many models have been proposed to explain both the rapidity of China’s fertility decline after the 1960s and the differential timing of the decline in different places. In particular, scholars argue over whether deliberate policies of fertility control, institutional changes, or general modernization factors contribute most to changes in fertility behavior. Here the authors adopt an ethnographically grounded behavioral—institutional approach to a…
Effects of Economic Change on Two Taiwanese Villages
Taiwan is economically a rather special case among countries outside the core of the world capitalist system. Excluding the city-state of Singapore, obviously a very different case, it has fulfilled the hope of capitalist models of economic development, and avoided the problems ordinarily attendant on that development, probably better than any noncore (that is, nonJapanese) nation in Asia. It has avoided massive unemployment, large-sprawling slum…
Social Organization and the Applications of Anthropology: Essays in Honor of Lauriston Sharp
Ways of Being Ethnic in Southwest China
Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295804071 Drawing on extensive fieldwork conducted in the 1980s and 1990s in southern Sichuan, this pathbreaking study examines the nature of ethnic consciousness and ethnic relations among local communities, focusing on the Nuosu (classified as Yi by the Chinese government), Prmi, Naze, and Han. It argues that even within the same regional social system, ethnic identity is formulated, perceived, and promoted …
A Long View of Resilience in the Chengdu Plain, China
The Chengdu Plain is an agroecosystem that depends on the Dujiangyan (Capital River Weir) for its functioning. This system has been sustained at high levels of productivity for more than two thousand years, experiencing only a few disturbances that have disrupted its functioning. Integrating field and documentary research on ecological, market, and governance factors, this article discusses the remarkable resilience of this system from the late Q…
Traditional Livelihoods, Conservation and Meadow Ecology in Jiuzhaigou National Park, Sichuan, China
A Society without Fathers or Husbands: The Na of China
Society without Fathers or Husbands: The Na of China. Cai Hua. Translated by Asti Hustvedt. New York: Zone Books, 2002. 506 pp
Combining ethnic heritage and national unity: A paradox of Nuosu (Yi) language textbooks in China
Since the reform of the Chinese Communist Party's ethnic minority policies in 1984, education in minority languages has been heavily promoted in many areas. Although they participate enthusiastically in minority-language education, political and educational elites in minority areas are faced with conflicting demands between their feelings of local and ethnic pride, on the one hand, and the requirement to promote the Party's policies of ethnic sol…
Modes of Belief in Chinese Folk Religion
Interviews with 66 residents of a Taiwanese village about their folk religion revealed that there is no simple division between believers and unbelievers, but rather that people's belief can be classified into four types, or modes: Intellectual belief, which tries to make sense out of reality; true belief, which accepts everything with total credulity; practical belief, which evaluates religious tenets on basis of evidence; and non-belief, which …
Perspectives on the Yi of Southwest China
Nearly seven million Yi people live in Southwest China, but most educated people outside China have never heard of them. This book, the first scholarly study in a Western language on the Yi in four decades, brings this little-known part of the world to life. Perspectives on the Yi of Southwest China is a remarkable collection of work by both Yi and foreign scholars describing their history, traditional society, and recent social changes. In addit…
China's Motor: A Thousand Years of Petty Capitalism
Jeeping against Maoism
Social Organization and the Applications of Anthropology: Essays in Honor of Lauriston Sharp
Ancient Society and Morgan's Kinship Theory 100 Years After [and Comments and Reply]
The synchronic, antievolutionary approach to kinship has made it impossible to grasp its nature and define it adequately. Understanding of the phenomenon is tobe found in the implications of Morgan's distinction between the classificatory and descriptive systems of kinship. These systems are based respectively on the tribal and family organizations, each giving rise to a different notion of kinship: one as recognition of common identity in a mate…
Modes of Belief in Chinese Folk Religion
Interviews with 66 residents of a Taiwanese village about their folk religion revealed that there is no simple division between believers and unbelievers, but rather that people's belief can be classified into four types, or modes: Intellectual belief, which tries to make sense out of reality; true belief, which accepts everything with total credulity; practical belief, which evaluates religious tenets on basis of evidence; and non-belief, which …
The Concept of Soul in Chinese Folk Religion
While all variants of Chinese religion assume the existence of one or more "souls"(ling-hun),very little has been said about what these "souls" are or how the concept varies from one religious tradition to another. This article explores the "soul" in the folk variant of Chinese religion, arguing that while the "soul" may be conceived as multiple in abstract, theoretical discussions, people actually behave as if the "soul" were a single entity. To…
Village and Family in Contemporary China . W. L. Parish and M. K. Whyte
Kurusu: The Price of Progress in a Japanese Village, 1951-1975
The Study of Chinese Society: Essays by Maurice Freedman
Effects of Economic Change on Two Taiwanese Villages
Taiwan is economically a rather special case among countries outside the core of the world capitalist system. Excluding the city-state of Singapore, obviously a very different case, it has fulfilled the hope of capitalist models of economic development, and avoided the problems ordinarily attendant on that development, probably better than any noncore (that is, nonJapanese) nation in Asia. It has avoided massive unemployment, large-sprawling slum…
Syncretic Sects in Chinese Society: An Introduction
Ethnic Groups and Social Change in a Chinese Market Town. C. FRED BLAKE
Chinese Village Politics in the Malaysian State. Judith STRAUCH
Ploughshare Village. Culture and Context in Taiwan
This anthropological study of a workers' village in North Taiwan makes an important contribution to the comparative literature on Chinese and Taiwanese social organization. Based on fieldwork conducted in 1973 and 1978, the study is exceptional not only because of its excellent data but also because the village itself was unique. Unlike villages previously studied and written about, was neither an agricultural nor a fishing village, but rather on…
Ploughshare Village: Culture and Context in Taiwan
Lineage Genealogy: The Genealogical Records of the Qing Imperial Lineage
Vol. 6, No. 2 Late Imperial ChinaDecember 1985 LINEAGE GENEALOGY: THE GENEALOGICAL RECORDS OF THE QING IMPERIAL LINEAGE Stevan Harrell, Susan Naquin, and Ju Deyuan* As in other lineages with corporate control over valuable resources~in this case high status, and material benefits-membership in the Qing imperial lineage was closely monitored. The Zongrenfu (the Imperial Clan Court, perhaps better translated as the Office of the Imperial Lineage), …
Households: Comparative and Historical Studies of the Domestic Group. Robert McC. Netting, Richard R. Wilk, and Eric J. Arnould
Why Do the Chinese Work So Hard: Reflections on an Entrepreneurial Ethic
Dowry Systems in Complex Societies
Definition et analyse transculturelle des divers systemes de compensations matrimoniales et de dots a partir des travaux de J. Goody, G. P. Murdoch, D. R. White en particulier. Division sexuelle du travail, statut social partiellement ou totalement determinee par la richesse, incidence sur les relations de parente et sur l'economie
On the Holes in Chinese Genealogies
Vol. 8, No. 2 Late Imperial ChinaDecember 1987 ON THE HOLES IN CHINESE GENEALOGIES Stevan Harrell* The Problem The social history of Europe from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries has been greatly enriched by the incorporation of the detailed demographic history of small communities. As students of Chinese history begin to move from and exclusive focus on large-scale generalizations to a finer-grained examination of local phenomena, we natu…
The Concept of Fate in Chinese Folk Ideology
Fate was an important concept in traditional Chinese folk culture, and in the culture of the elite. This much is uncontroversial. But what the concept was about, what it meant and how it related to class hegemony, is a matter open to dispute. The relationship of any folk ideology to the hegemonic ideology of the society is a complex one. We can perhaps best conceive this relationship as a compound of two ideal types. In the first the folk ideolog…
The Chinese Family and Its Ritual Behavior. Hsieh Jih-chang and Chuang Ying-chang
Politics and Scholarship on Taiwan: Some Errors of Murray and Hong
From Xiedou to Yijun , the Decline of Ethnicity in Northern Taiwan, 1885-1895
Vol. 11, No. 1 Late Imperial ChinaJune 1990 FROM XIEDOU TO YIJUN, THE DECLINE OF ETHNICITY IN NORTHERN TAIWAN, 1885-1895* Stevan Harrell Righteous Armies and the Yiwei War In 1895 (Yiwei by the cyclical calendar), as a result of the disastrous defeat of the Chinese forces by Japan in engagements in Korea, the island province of Taiwan was ceded by the Qing to the Japanese Empire. In April of that year, after several vain efforts to drum up intern…
Ethnicity, Local Interests, and the State: Yi Communities in Southwest China
People who are not members of the Han Chinese majority and who are officially classified as members of the Yi minzu ('ethnic group') inhabit many villages within fifty kilometers of the industrial city of Panzhihua (formerly Dukou) at the southernmost point of Sichuan province. These people differ widely from each other in language and other cultural traits and in the nature of their relationship to their non-Yi neighbors. Of three Yi communities…
Pluralism, performance and meaning in Taiwanese healing: A case study
Gender and Religion: On the Complexity of Symbols
Sociology (48 works) · Political science (40 works) · China (35 works) · History (32 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (27 works) · Geography (26 works) · Law (24 works) · Archaeology (18 works) · China's Ethnic Minorities and Relations (17 works) · Law (15 works)