Lukang
Subtitle: commerce and community in a Chinese city
By: Donald R. DeGlopper.
Series: SUNY series in Chinese local studies
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
Subjects: Ethnology -- Taiwan -- Lu-kang chen.; City and town life -- Taiwan -- Lu-kang chen.; Lu-kang chen (Taiwan) -- Social conditions.; Lu-kang chen (Taiwan) -- Economic conditions.; Lu-kang chen (Taiwan) -- Social life and customs.
Description: Based on anthropological fieldwork in Lukang, an old seaport in Taiwan, this book examines the city's history, economic structure, and social organization. It addresses such matters as an annual rock fight between the city's major clans, the way votes are bought in local elections, and why the inhabitants of a fairly large industrial and commercial city describe it as a cozy community where everyone knows everyone else.

The book uses the framework of a community study to address such large questions as the adequacy of Confucianism as model for Chinese society, the nature of Chinese social organization beyond the realm of the family and kinship, and the structure of Chinese society generally and the city of Lukang specifically and the ways the members of that society talk about their society and their own places in it.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-287) and indexes.
Based on both the author's thesises (Ph. D.)--Cornell University, 1973, and (master's--University of London, 1965)