Saga of Anthropology in China: From Malinowski to Moscow to Mao

This book studies the development of the four fields of anthropology in China. Looking at both the political and social contexts, Greg Guldin demonstrates how political turmoil has shaped China's twentieth century anthropological landscape. Part I Anthropological Life after Death; Chapter 1 Long Live Liang Zhaotao!; Chapter 1a A Decade of Changes; Part II Importing Disciplines, 1898–1949; Chapter 2 Foreign Introductions; Chapter 2a Lin Huixiang, Mentor of Liang Zhaotao; Chapter 3 Foreign Visitors; Chapter 3a Zhongshan University and Yang Chengzhi; Chapter 4 China’s Western Anthropology Matures; Chapter 4a Liang Zhaotao at Liberation; Part III Early PRC Socialism and the Soviet Model, 1949–1960; Chapter 5 Transitions; Chapter 6 Reorientation; Chapter 7 Learning from Elder Brother; Chapter 8 In the Field; Part IV “Maoized” Disciplines, 1957–1978; Chapter 9 “Maoization” as Sinicization; Chapter 5a Liang Zhaotao and New China, 1949–1964; Chapter 10 Disciplinary Deconstruction— The Cultural Revolution; Chapter 6a Liang Zhaotao, Exile and Rehabilitation; partV National Anthropologies: A Chinese Model?; Chapter 11 The Return of Foreign Anthropologies?; Chapter 12 Sinicizing Chinese Anthropology; Chapter 13 Some Observations on Chinese and Global Anthropology; Chapter 7a Liang Zhaotao: An Epitaph;