Rural China on the Eve of Revolution: Sichuan Fieldnotes, 1949-1950 - Softcover

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

G. William Skinner (1925-2008) was the dean of sinological anthropology in the West, a major theorist of family systems, and a pioneer in applying spatial analysis techniques to the study of agrarian societies. He was the author of Marketing and Social Structure in Rural China (Association for Asian Studies, 1965) and Chinese Society in Thailand: An Analytical History (Cornell University Press, 1957); and the coeditor of The City in Late Imperial China (Stanford University Press, 1977) and The Chinese City between Two Worlds (Stanford University Press, 1974).

Stevan Harrell is professor emeritus of anthropology and environmental and forest sciences at the University of Washington. He is the author of Ways of Being Ethnic in Southwest China (University of Washington Press, 2001) and An Ecological History of Modern China (University of Washington Press, 2023); and editor of the University of Washington Press book series Studies on Ethnic Groups in China.

William Lavely is professor of sociology at the University of Washington. He is a coeditor of Rural China on the Eve of Revolution: Sichuan Fieldnotes, 1949–1950 by G. William Skinner (University of Washington Press, 2016) and the author of many articles on demography and the family in contemporary China.