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- ISBN 9780801484766
- Weight: 907g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 07 Aug 1997
- Publisher: Cornell University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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"Gates is a Marxist anthropologist with chutzpah. Best known for her compelling portrayal of contemporary working-class Taiwanese, she considerably broadens and deepens her analysis of China's socioeconomy in this work."—ChoiceThis 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 social, economic, and political principles that have prompted people in widely varying circumstances to act, believe, and behave in ways that are labeled as Chinese.This original reinterpretation of Chinese culture, as meticulous in detail as it is vast in scope, will revise not only the study of China but also the very terms of social analysis.
Hill Gates is Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at Stanford University. She is the author of Chinese Working-Class Lives: Getting By in Taiwan, also from Cornell.
