Chinese Pioneer Family
In an absorbing account of a frontier family''s rise to local eminence, from its pioneer days in eighteenth-century Taiwan through its attainment of gentry status there a century later, Johanna Meskill presents not just a family history but a social history of late imperial China as well.
Originally published in 1979.
The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again m...
In an absorbing account of a frontier family''s rise to local eminence, from its pioneer days in eighteenth-century Taiwan through its attainment of gentry status there a century later, Johanna Meskill presents not just a family history but a social history of late imperial China as well.
Originally published in 1979.
The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again m...
