A Chinese Pioneer Family: The Lins of Wu-Feng, Taiwan, 1729-1895

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...

• 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"