A Chinese Pioneer Family: The Lins of Wu-feng, Taiwan, 1729-1895 (Studies of the East Asian Institute)

By Menzel Johanna Meskill and Johanna Menzel Meskill

Book Overview

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 make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691008086
• ISBN13: 9780691008080
• Release Date: February 1990
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 394 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.5"