14. From Desire to Necessity

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword vii
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. Special Characteristics of Rural Society 37
6. 2. Bringing Literacy to the Countryside 45
7. 3. More Thoughts on Bringing Literacy to the Countryside 53
8. 4. Chaxugeju: The Differential Mode of Association 60
9. 5. The Morality of Personal Relationships 71
10. 6. Patrilineages 80
11. 7. "Between Men and Women, There Are Only Differences" 87
12. 8. A Rule of Ritual 94
13. 9. A Society without Litigation 101
14. 10. An Inactive Government 108
15. 11. Rule by Elders 114
16. 12. Consanguinity and Regionalism 120
17. 13. Separating Names from Reality 128
18. 14. From Desire to Necessity 134
19. Epilogue: Sociology and the Reconstruction of Rural China 141
20. Glossary 153
21. Index 157