China's gentry
Subtitle: Essays in rural-urban relations with Six Life-Histories of Chinese Gentry Families
Contributors: Margaret Park Redfield (Editor); James K. Y. Kuo (Illustrator); Robert Redfield (Introduction)
Publisher: Univ. of Chicago Press
Published: 1972
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 289
ISBN-13: 9780226239545
First sentence: To Western readers Hsiao-tung Fei is known as the author of a short, illuminating book on life in a Chinese village, of another and more mature work on agriculture and industry in southwestern China, and of a stimulating article on one of the principal themes of the present book: the gentry in Chinese society.