Fieldwork in Modern Chinese History: A Research Guide

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of contributors
Editors’ preface: Fieldwork in Modern Chinese History
Acknowledgments
SECTION 1 History and fieldwork in historical perspective
	1 They went to the people but did they hear them? Comments on field research in China in the 1920s and 1930s
	2 A brief history of Japanese field research on China
	3 The traditionalist phase in Taiwan anthropology: 1960–1980
SECTION 2 Work reflections
	4 Fieldwork for Ming historians
	5 Conducting fieldwork as a local: perspectives from Hulunbuir
	6 Who are they, and who am I?: discovering gender and ethnicity in the Sino-Tibetan borderland
	7 Ritual performance in changing local society
	8 Beyond the border of disciplines and societies: from fieldwork among the Lahu to the history of bazi basins
SECTION 3 Walking the ground, talking to people
	9 Basic questions for fieldwork on pre-1949 Chinese society
	10 Festivals in the field—a social historical perspective
	11 Doing historical-anthropological fieldwork in Jiangnan: Gazetteers, newspapers, and real life
	12 Incorporating historical GIS in fieldwork on Chinese culture and religion
	13 Walks in Canton: doing historical anthropology in a Chinese city
	14 Contextualizing ethnic classification: the case of hemu (合亩) among the Li of Hainan
	15 Mud on your boots: researching the social and environmental history of conservation in Baishui county, Shaanxi during the 1950s
	16 Medicine, health, and disease: among the barefoot doctors of Hangzhou
	17 Discovering the Cultural Revolution in oral history
	18 Walking a production chain: an interdisciplinary approach to the history of things
SECTION 4 Finding and working with grassroots documents
	19 Field research using contracts (qiyue): legal archives of late Qing and early Republican-era Longquan, Zhejiang
	20 Account books (zhangben) in local history studies
	21 Land and property deeds and urban studies: a case study of deeds collected by Ms. Liu
	22 Genealogies and revolution in the Jiangxi Soviet
	23 Using local public security archives from the 1950s—Poyang county, Jiangxi
	24 Exploring a northern Jiangsu county Intangible Cultural Heritage archive
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