Hill Gates - Böcker

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 childs body and mind that girls differed from boy...

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Captures dreams, illustrious thoughts, and experiences that one has known or wishes to know. Without effort, we ...all of us know how to love, how to think or suffer. It is said that anyone who wishes to live life fully, needs to seek poetry. This...

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In the 1980s, anthropologist Hill Gates set out on an excursion to Sichuan Province, the first of many visits she would make to gain a deeper understanding of Chinese women. This is her memoir of her travels by boat, train, bus, car, bicycle and f...

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This 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 Motor provides a view o...

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For decades, anthropologist Hill Gates had waited for an opportunity to get to know the citizens of China as she had done in Taiwanface to face, over an extended period of time. At last in the late 1980s she set out on an excursion to Sichuan Prov...

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Footbinding was common in China until the early twentieth century, when most Chinese were family farmers. Why did these families bind young girls' feet? And why did footbinding stop? In this groundbreaking work, Laurel Bossen and Hill Gates u...

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The best of current thinking in Marxist anthropology on the inter-relationships of economies, polities, and kinship systems is encompassed in these eleven papers by fourteen authors. Chapter I, Petty Production, targets petty producers in diverse ...

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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 b...

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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 b...

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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 childs body and mind that girls differed from boy...

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This 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 Motor provides a view of the...

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Taiwans working class has been shaped by Chinese tradition, by colonialism, and by rapid industrialization. This book defines that class, explores that history, and presents with sensitive honesty the life experiences of some of its women and men....

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Footbinding was common in China until the early twentieth century, when most Chinese were family farmers. Why did these families bind young girls' feet? And why did footbinding stop? In this groundbreaking work, Laurel Bossen and Hill Gates upend ...

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