Hill Gates
Biographic Data
| ID | 3594099 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hill Gates |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hill |
| FAMILY NAME | Gates |
| SIGNATURE | GATES H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Central Michigan University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 38 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 125 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 38 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Footbinding as Fashion: Ethnicity, Labor, and Status in Traditional China, written by John Robert Shepherd, 2018
Looking for Chengdu: A Woman's Adventures in China
For decades, anthropologist Hill Gates had waited for an opportunity to get to know the citizens of China as she had done in Taiwan—face to face, over an extended period of time. At last in the late 1980s she set out on an excursion to Sichuan Province. That visit was the first of many she would make there on a remarkable double adventure: to gain a deeper understanding of Chinese women and to complete a difficult passage in her own life. Looking…
Bound Feet, Young Hands: Tracking the Demise of Footbinding in Village China
Bound Feet, Young Hands: Tracking the Demise of Footbinding in Village China
This book examines the once widespread practice of footbinding from the perspective of China’s gendered labor system. In contrast to the common belief that footbinding was motivated by the quest for beauty and was practiced primarily to attract a husband, this book emphasizes that footbinding was extremely widespread, not limited to the elite, and must be understood in the context of girls’ and women’s labor. In preindustrial China, rural women a…
Footbinding and Women's Labor in Sichuan
When Chinese women bound their daughters’ feet, many consequences ensued, some beyond the imagination of the binders and the bound. The most obvious of these consequences was to impress upon a small child’s body and mind that girls differed from boys, thus reproducing gender hierarchy. What is not obvious is why Chinese society should have evolved such a radical method of gender-marking. Gendering is not simply preparation for reproduction, rathe…
Marriage Mobility and Footbinding in Pre-1949 Rural China: A Reconsideration of Gender, Economics, and Meaning in Social Causation
We provide evidence contrary to long-standing general expectations that before 1949 most Chinese women married up the social hierarchy and that footbinding facilitated this hypergamy. In our sample of 7,314 rural women living in Sichuan, Northern, Central, and Southwestern China in the first half of the twentieth century, two-thirds of women did not marry up. In fact, 22 percent of all women, across regions, married down. In most regions, more wo…
Feet and Fabrication: Footbinding and Early Twentieth-Century Rural Women’s Labor in Shaanxi
The early twentieth-century transformations of rural Chinese women’s work have received relatively little direct attention. By contrast, the former custom of footbinding continues to fascinate and is often used to illustrate or contest theories about Chinese women’s status. Arguing that for rural women at least, footbinding needs to be understood in relation to rural economic conditions, the authors focus on changes in textile production and in f…
Bound feet: How sexy were they
In lore and literature, footbinding is thought to have been maintained by its erotic attraction for Chinese men. Interviews with hundreds of living village and small-town women who were footbound in their childhood prove this to be an unsustainable myth. In addition to my extensive fieldwork in many Chinese regions, graphic and portable erotic art, and classical erotic novels all reveal a low level of sexual attentiveness to bound feet and shoes …
The Making of Women Entrepreneurs in Hong Kong . Priscilla Pue Ho Chu
Marriage in Taipei City: Reasons for Rethinking Chinese Demography
The only pre-1950 Chinese cities for which reliable demographic records exist are those in Taiwan. Analysis of two samples of the records from Taipei City produces surprising results. Urban women were far less likely to marry than rural women and consequently had markedly lower fertility. This was due to a greater demand for female labor in the city but not because employment outside of the home freed women to refuse marriages arranged by their p…
In the Name of Harmony and Prosperity: Labor and Gender Politics in Taiwan's Economic Restructuring
Footloose in Fujian: Economic Correlates of Footbinding
One hundred years ago, Mrs. Archibald Little summarized the activities of Sichuan women with whom she was, after long residence in that province, quite familiar
Human Families
Modeling Chinese Marriage Regimes
In some parts of China people commonly raised their sons' wives. In other parts they rarely did so. This article compares evidence from two widely separated localities and suggests that the frequency of marriages involving home-raised daughters-in-law was correlated with the age at which these girls entered their future husband's household and the extent to which the practice was class related. It also suggests that this correlation was the produ…
The Flow of Gifts: Reciprocity and Social Networks in a Chinese Village
1. Introduction: the gift in anthropology and Chinese society 2. Xiajia village: a sketch of the field site 3. The world of gifts: a preliminary classification 4. The gift economy and Guanxi networks 5. The structure of Guanxi in village society 6. The principle of reciprocity and Renaqing ethics 7. Power and prestige in gift-exchange relations 8. Marriage transactions and social reformations 9. Conclusions: socialism, Guanxi, Renqing and the gif…
China's Motor: A Thousand Years of Petty Capitalism.
China's Motor: A Thousand Years of Petty Capitalism
"Gates is a Marxist anthropologist with chutzpah. Best known for her compelling portrayal of contemporary working-class Taiwanese, she considerably broadens and deepens her analysis of China's socioeconomy in this work."—ChoiceThis monumental work reveals the continuities that underlie the changing surface of Chinese life from late imperial days to modern times. With a perspective that encompasses a thousand years of Chinese history, China's Moto…
China's Motor: A Thousand Years of Petty Capitalism
The Roads of Chinese Childhood: Learning and Identification in Angang.Charles Stafford
Buying Brides in China-Again
Nombreuses sont les femmes chinoises vendues et achetees pour devenir des epouses ou des prostituees soumises. Capitalisme, pauvrete et surplus demographique ne sont pas les seules raisons de ce trafic humain. Ce dernier existe depuis des siecles et est lie a l'allocation d'un travail qui a estompe la frontiere entre le membre d'une famille et la main-d'oeuvre louee. La difficile distinction entre la migration pour l'emploi et la migration pour l…
Business and Bureaucracy in a Chinese City: An Ethnography of Private Business Households in Contemporary China. Ole Bruun
Schooling Taiwan's Women: Educational Attainment in the Mid-20th Century
Les AA. presentent une analyse de l'impact du developpement de l'education sur le niveau d'instruction des hommes et des femmes a Taiwan entre 1927 et 1971. Ils montrent que les origines sociales, ethniques et le milieu familial tendent a influencer, dans ce pays, les attentes en matiere educationnelle. Ils mettent en evidence la difficulte que rencontrent les femmes pour parvenir a un niveau d'instruction eleve et isolent une reussite scolaire m…
Chinatown No More: Taiwan Immigrants in Contemporary New York. HSIANG-SHUI CHEN
Eating for revenge: Consumption and corruption under economic de-reform
Chinese Working Class Lives: Getting by in Taiwan
I wrote this book to help students and others with a new interest in things Chinese to encounter the culture of Taiwans ordinary working people whose livelihood depends on their hands, backs, and wits.Too little of Chinese life is accessible to most of us in the West: Taiwan and the People s Republic of China are distant and expensive for travelers, though Americans who have been in those places are no longer rarities.Even for those who make the …
Dependency and the Part-time Proletariat in Taiwan
A substantial number of Western intellectuals has been convinced at least since Marx's time that imperialism is more advantageous to the imperialist than to the imperialized; dependency theorists have repeatedly proven that the poverty of poor nations is exacerbated and often caused by their economic relations with more powerful countries. A corollary of this argument is that dependent nations must be economic failures, sinking further into finan…
Money for the Gods
In Taiwan's temples, village courtyards, and old city lanes, women prepare for the flames the coarse, printed papers that serve as money for the gods. Folded into stacks with the deftness much practice brings, they burn quickly, transformed into mystical currency for the invisible other world. It is such a common sight that one soon overlooks the paradoxical symbolism of the cash-conscious, frugal Taiwanese burning money; the people who burn the …
The Commoditization of Chinese Women
In the Name of Harmony and Prosperity: Labor and Gender Politics in Taiwan's Economic Restructuring
Chinese Working-Class Lives: Getting by in Taiwan
I wrote this book to help students and others with a new interest in things Chinese to encounter the culture of Taiwans ordinary working people whose livelihood depends on their hands, backs, and wits.Too little of Chinese life is accessible to most of us in the West: Taiwan and the People s Republic of China are distant and expensive for travelers, though Americans who have been in those places are no longer rarities.Even for those who make the …
Hegemony and Chinese Folk Ideologies: An Introduction
Footloose in Fujian: Economic Correlates of Footbinding
One hundred years ago, Mrs. Archibald Little summarized the activities of Sichuan women with whom she was, after long residence in that province, quite familiar
Feet and Fabrication: Footbinding and Early Twentieth-Century Rural Women’s Labor in Shaanxi
The early twentieth-century transformations of rural Chinese women’s work have received relatively little direct attention. By contrast, the former custom of footbinding continues to fascinate and is often used to illustrate or contest theories about Chinese women’s status. Arguing that for rural women at least, footbinding needs to be understood in relation to rural economic conditions, the authors focus on changes in textile production and in f…
Schooling Taiwan's Women: Educational Attainment in the Mid-20th Century
Les AA. presentent une analyse de l'impact du developpement de l'education sur le niveau d'instruction des hommes et des femmes a Taiwan entre 1927 et 1971. Ils montrent que les origines sociales, ethniques et le milieu familial tendent a influencer, dans ce pays, les attentes en matiere educationnelle. Ils mettent en evidence la difficulte que rencontrent les femmes pour parvenir a un niveau d'instruction eleve et isolent une reussite scolaire m…
Bound feet: How sexy were they
In lore and literature, footbinding is thought to have been maintained by its erotic attraction for Chinese men. Interviews with hundreds of living village and small-town women who were footbound in their childhood prove this to be an unsustainable myth. In addition to my extensive fieldwork in many Chinese regions, graphic and portable erotic art, and classical erotic novels all reveal a low level of sexual attentiveness to bound feet and shoes …
Marriage Mobility and Footbinding in Pre-1949 Rural China: A Reconsideration of Gender, Economics, and Meaning in Social Causation
We provide evidence contrary to long-standing general expectations that before 1949 most Chinese women married up the social hierarchy and that footbinding facilitated this hypergamy. In our sample of 7,314 rural women living in Sichuan, Northern, Central, and Southwestern China in the first half of the twentieth century, two-thirds of women did not marry up. In fact, 22 percent of all women, across regions, married down. In most regions, more wo…
Ethnic Groups and Social Change in a Chinese Market Town
Looking for Chengdu: A Woman's Adventures in China
For decades, anthropologist Hill Gates had waited for an opportunity to get to know the citizens of China as she had done in Taiwan—face to face, over an extended period of time. At last in the late 1980s she set out on an excursion to Sichuan Province. That visit was the first of many she would make there on a remarkable double adventure: to gain a deeper understanding of Chinese women and to complete a difficult passage in her own life. Looking…
China's Motor: A Thousand Years of Petty Capitalism
Modeling Chinese Marriage Regimes
In some parts of China people commonly raised their sons' wives. In other parts they rarely did so. This article compares evidence from two widely separated localities and suggests that the frequency of marriages involving home-raised daughters-in-law was correlated with the age at which these girls entered their future husband's household and the extent to which the practice was class related. It also suggests that this correlation was the produ…
The Flow of Gifts: Reciprocity and Social Networks in a Chinese Village
1. Introduction: the gift in anthropology and Chinese society 2. Xiajia village: a sketch of the field site 3. The world of gifts: a preliminary classification 4. The gift economy and Guanxi networks 5. The structure of Guanxi in village society 6. The principle of reciprocity and Renaqing ethics 7. Power and prestige in gift-exchange relations 8. Marriage transactions and social reformations 9. Conclusions: socialism, Guanxi, Renqing and the gif…
Buying Brides in China-Again
Nombreuses sont les femmes chinoises vendues et achetees pour devenir des epouses ou des prostituees soumises. Capitalisme, pauvrete et surplus demographique ne sont pas les seules raisons de ce trafic humain. Ce dernier existe depuis des siecles et est lie a l'allocation d'un travail qui a estompe la frontiere entre le membre d'une famille et la main-d'oeuvre louee. La difficile distinction entre la migration pour l'emploi et la migration pour l…
Urbanization and Development: The Rural-Urban Transition in Taiwan
Dependency and the Part-time Proletariat in Taiwan
A substantial number of Western intellectuals has been convinced at least since Marx's time that imperialism is more advantageous to the imperialist than to the imperialized; dependency theorists have repeatedly proven that the poverty of poor nations is exacerbated and often caused by their economic relations with more powerful countries. A corollary of this argument is that dependent nations must be economic failures, sinking further into finan…
Chinese Studies, Cross-Cultural Studies and Taiwan
Ethnic Groups and Social Change in a Chinese Market Town
Chinese by profession
John T. Omohundro. Chinese Merchant Families in Iloilo: Commerce and Kin in a Central Philippine City. Quezon City, Metro Manila, Ateneo de Manila University Press and Athens, Ohio, The Ohio University Press. 1981. 206 pp. $16.95 Hardback; $8.95 paper
Allegations in Withdrawn Motion Questioned
Class and Social Stratification In Post‐Revolution China. James L. Watson
Morality and Power in a Chinese Village
Hegemony and Chinese Folk Ideologies: An Introduction
Money for the Gods
In Taiwan's temples, village courtyards, and old city lanes, women prepare for the flames the coarse, printed papers that serve as money for the gods. Folded into stacks with the deftness much practice brings, they burn quickly, transformed into mystical currency for the invisible other world. It is such a common sight that one soon overlooks the paradoxical symbolism of the cash-conscious, frugal Taiwanese burning money; the people who burn the …
Chinese Working Class Lives: Getting by in Taiwan
I wrote this book to help students and others with a new interest in things Chinese to encounter the culture of Taiwans ordinary working people whose livelihood depends on their hands, backs, and wits.Too little of Chinese life is accessible to most of us in the West: Taiwan and the People s Republic of China are distant and expensive for travelers, though Americans who have been in those places are no longer rarities.Even for those who make the …
Urbanization and Development: The Rural-Urban Transition in Taiwan
Chinese Working-Class Lives: Getting by in Taiwan
I wrote this book to help students and others with a new interest in things Chinese to encounter the culture of Taiwans ordinary working people whose livelihood depends on their hands, backs, and wits.Too little of Chinese life is accessible to most of us in the West: Taiwan and the People s Republic of China are distant and expensive for travelers, though Americans who have been in those places are no longer rarities.Even for those who make the …
Kinship Organization in Late Imperial China, 1000-1940
The Commoditization of Chinese Women
Eating for revenge: Consumption and corruption under economic de-reform
Schooling Taiwan's Women: Educational Attainment in the Mid-20th Century
Les AA. presentent une analyse de l'impact du developpement de l'education sur le niveau d'instruction des hommes et des femmes a Taiwan entre 1927 et 1971. Ils montrent que les origines sociales, ethniques et le milieu familial tendent a influencer, dans ce pays, les attentes en matiere educationnelle. Ils mettent en evidence la difficulte que rencontrent les femmes pour parvenir a un niveau d'instruction eleve et isolent une reussite scolaire m…
Chinatown No More: Taiwan Immigrants in Contemporary New York. HSIANG-SHUI CHEN
Business and Bureaucracy in a Chinese City: An Ethnography of Private Business Households in Contemporary China. Ole Bruun
Buying Brides in China-Again
Nombreuses sont les femmes chinoises vendues et achetees pour devenir des epouses ou des prostituees soumises. Capitalisme, pauvrete et surplus demographique ne sont pas les seules raisons de ce trafic humain. Ce dernier existe depuis des siecles et est lie a l'allocation d'un travail qui a estompe la frontiere entre le membre d'une famille et la main-d'oeuvre louee. La difficile distinction entre la migration pour l'emploi et la migration pour l…
China's Motor: A Thousand Years of Petty Capitalism.
China's Motor: A Thousand Years of Petty Capitalism
"Gates is a Marxist anthropologist with chutzpah. Best known for her compelling portrayal of contemporary working-class Taiwanese, she considerably broadens and deepens her analysis of China's socioeconomy in this work."—ChoiceThis monumental work reveals the continuities that underlie the changing surface of Chinese life from late imperial days to modern times. With a perspective that encompasses a thousand years of Chinese history, China's Moto…
China's Motor: A Thousand Years of Petty Capitalism
The Roads of Chinese Childhood: Learning and Identification in Angang.Charles Stafford
Modeling Chinese Marriage Regimes
In some parts of China people commonly raised their sons' wives. In other parts they rarely did so. This article compares evidence from two widely separated localities and suggests that the frequency of marriages involving home-raised daughters-in-law was correlated with the age at which these girls entered their future husband's household and the extent to which the practice was class related. It also suggests that this correlation was the produ…
The Flow of Gifts: Reciprocity and Social Networks in a Chinese Village
1. Introduction: the gift in anthropology and Chinese society 2. Xiajia village: a sketch of the field site 3. The world of gifts: a preliminary classification 4. The gift economy and Guanxi networks 5. The structure of Guanxi in village society 6. The principle of reciprocity and Renaqing ethics 7. Power and prestige in gift-exchange relations 8. Marriage transactions and social reformations 9. Conclusions: socialism, Guanxi, Renqing and the gif…
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