G. William Skinner

George William Skinner
Született	1925. február 14. Oakland, Kalifornia, USA
Elhunyt	2008. október 28. (83 évesen) Davis, Kalifornia, USA
Állampolgársága	amerikai
Nemzetisége	amerikai
Házastársa	Susan L. Mann
Szülei	John James Skinner Eunice Engle Skinner
Foglalkozása	antropológus, sinológus
Iskolái	Cornell Egyetem Deep Springs College
Kitüntetései	Guggenheim-ösztöndíj a Hongkongi Egyetem díszdoktora
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George William Skinner (Oakland, Kalifornia, 1925. február 14. – Davis, Kalifornia, 2008. október 28.) (kínai neve pinjin hangsúlyjelekkel: Shī Jiānyǎ; magyar népszerű: Si Csien-ja; egyszerűsített kínai: 施坚雅; hagyományos kínai: 施堅雅) amerikai antropológus, sinológus.

Élete, munkássága

Skinner 1943-tól az Egyesült Államok haditengerészetének keleti nyelvek iskolájában tanult 18 hónapig a Colorado állambeli Boulderben. Egyetemi diplomát 1946-ban a Cornell Egyetemen szerzett. 1954-ben antropológiából szerzett doktori fokozatot. 1949-től a Cornell Egyetemen tanított. 1958-ban adjunktus lett a Columbia Egyetemen. Két év múlva visszatért a Cornellre, ahol 1962-ben professzorrá nevezték ki. 1990-ben Davisben, a Kaliforniai Egyetemen helyezkedett el. 2005-ben vonult nyugdíjba. Felesége, Susan L. Mann szintén sinológus.

Skinner talán legnagyobb jelentőségű, a sinológiához kapcsolódó eredménye, az úgynevezett „Kína fiziografikus makrorégiói” (Physiographic macroregions of China) elméletének kidolgozása. 1983-ban az Association for Asian Studies elnöki tisztét is betöltötte.

Főbb művei

Könyvek, monográfiák

• Report on the Chinese in Southeast Asia. Ithaca: Cornell University, Southeast Asia Program, 1951. 91 pp. (Data papers 1)
• (Szerk.) The Social Sciences and Thailand. Bangkok: Cornell Research Center, 1956. 185 + 125 pp. (in Thai and English)
• Chinese Society in Thailand: An Analytical History. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1957. xvii + 459 pp. (Japanese edition: Bangkok: Japanese Chamber of Commerce, 1973, 365 pp.)
• Leadership and Power in the Chinese Community of Thailand. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1958. xvii +363 pp. (Monographs of the Association for Asian Studies, III). (Japanese edition: Tokyo: Ajia Keizai Kenkyujo, 1961. 417 pp.). (Reprinted 1979 by Universities Microfilm International)
• (Szerk.) Local, Ethnic, and National Loyalties in Village Indonesia: A Symposium. New Haven: Yale University, Southeast Asia Studies, 1959. 68 pp.
• (Szerk.) Modern Chinese Society: An Analytical Bibliography, Vol. 1, Publications in Western Languages, 1644–1972. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1973. 1xxviii + 802 pp.
• (Szerk. Winston Hsieh-vel) Modern Chinese Society: An Analytical Bibliography, Vol. 2, Publications in Chinese, 1644–1969. Stanford University Press, 1973. lxxci + 802 pp.
• (Szerk. Shigeaki Tomitaval) Modern Chinese Society: An Analytical Bibliography, Vol. 3, Publications in Japanese, 1644–1971. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1973. 1xix + 531 pp.
• (Szerk. Mark Elvinnel) The Chinese City Between Two Worlds. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1974. xiii + 458 pp.
• (Szerk. A. Thomas Kirsch-sel) Change and Persistence in Thai Society: Essays in Honor of Lauriston Sharp. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1975. 386 pp.
• (Szerk.) The City in Late Imperial China. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1977. xvii + 820 pp.
• (Szerk.) The Study of Chinese Society: Essays by Maurice Freedman. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1979. xxiv + 491 pp.

Cikkek, könyvfejezetek

• Aftermath of Communist liberation in the Chengtu Plain. Pacific Affairs 24, 1 (Mar. 1951): 61–76.
• The new sociology of China. Far Eastern Quarterly 14, 4 (Aug. 1951): 365–71.
• Peasant organization in rural China. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 277 (Sept. 1951): 89–100.
• A study in miniature of Chinese population. Population Studies 5, 2 (Nov. 1951): 91–103. (Reprinted in Social Demography, edited by Thomas R. Ford and Gordon F. De Jong. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1970, 642–56.)
• Cultural values, social structure and population growth. Population Bulletin of the United Nations 5 (July 1956): 5–12.
• The unity of the social sciences. In The Social Sciences and Thailand. Bangkok: Cornell Research Center, 1956, 3–6. (In Thai and English)
• Chinese assimilation and Thai politics. Journal of Asian Studies 16, 2 (Feb. 1957): 237–50. (Reprinted in Southeast Asia: The Politics of National Integration, edited by John T. McAlister, Jr. New York: Random House, 1973, 383–98.)
• The Chinese of Java. In Colloquium on Overseas Chinese, edited by Morton H. Fried. New York: Institute of Pacific Relations, 1958, 1–10.
• Overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 321 (Jan. 1959): 136–47.
• The nature of loyalties in rural Indonesia. In Local, Ethnic and National Loyalties in Village Indonesia: A Symposium. New Haven: Yale University, Southeast Asia Studies, 1959, 1–11. (Reprinted in Social Change: The Colonial Situation, edited by Immanuel M. Wallerstein. New York: Wiley, 1966, 265–77.)
• Change and persistence in Chinese culture overseas: A comparison of Thailand and Java. Journal of the South Seas Society 16 (1960): 86100. (Reprinted in Readings in South-east Asian Anthropology, edited by Donald J. Tugby. Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, 1967. Reprinted in Southeast Asia: The Politics of National Integration, edited by John T. McAlister, Jr. New York: Random House, 1973, 399–415.)
• Java's Chinese minority: Continuity and change. Journal of Asian Studies 20, 3 (May 1961): 353–62.
• The Chinese minority. In Indonesia, edited by Ruth T. McVey. New Haven: HRAF Press, 1963, 97–117. (Indonesian translation: Golongan minoritas Tionghoa. In Golongan Etnis Tionghoa di Indonesia, edited by Mely G. Tan. Jakarta: Penderbit PT Gramedia, 1979, 1–29.)
• What the study of China can do for social science. Journal of Asian Studies 23, 4 (Aug. 1964): 517–22. [Chinese translation in Ta-hsüeh sheng-huo (Hong Kong) 6 (1966): 8–13.]
• The Thailand Chinese: Assimilation in a changing society. Asia 2 (Autumn 1964): 80–92.
• Marketing and social structure in rural China, Parts I, II, and III. Journal of Asian Studies 24, 1 (Nov. 1964): 3–44; 24, 2 (Feb. 1965): 195–228; 24, 3 (May 1965): 363–99. (Part I reprinted in Peasant Society: A Reader, edited by Jack M. Potter et al. Boston: Little, Brown, 1967, 63–93; and in Man, Space and Environment: Concepts in Contemporary Human Geography, edited by Paul Ward English and Robert C. Mayfield. New York: Oxford University Press, 1972, 561-601. Parts I, II, and III separately reprinted in Bobbs Merrill reprint series. Reissued 1974, 1977, 1981, 1988, 1994, and 2000 as a pamphlet by the Association for Asian Studies. Japanese edition: Kyoto: Horitse Bunka Sha, 1979. 222 p.)
• Communication (on marketing systems in Communist China). Journal of Asian Studies 25, 2 (Feb. 1966): 319–24.
• Overseas Chinese leadership: Paradigm for a paradox. In Leadership and Authority, edited by Gehan Wijeyewardene. Singapore: University of Malaya Press, 1968, 191–207.
• (Edwin A. Wincklerrel) Compliance succession in rural Communist China: A cyclical theory. In A Sociological Reader on Complex Organization, 2nd ed., edited by Amitai Etzioni. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1969, 410–38.
• Chinese peasants and the closed community: An open and shut case. Comparative Studies in Society and History 13, 3 (July, 1971): 270–81.
• (with Arthur P. Wolf) Maurice Freedman (1920–75) [obituary]. China Quarterly 63 (Sept. 1975): i–iii
• Maurice Freedman, 1920–1975, and Bibliography of Maurice Freedman. American Anthropologist 78, 4 (Dec. 1976): 871–85.
• Mobility strategies in late imperial China: A regional-systems analysis. In Regional Analysis, Vol. 1. Economic Systems, edited by Carol A. Smith. New York: Academic Press, 1976, 327–64.
• Urban development in imperial China [Part One introduction]. In The City in Late Imperial China, edited by G. William Skinner. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1977, 3–31.
• Urban and rural in Chinese society [Part Two introduction]. In The City in Late Imperial China. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1977, 253–73.
• Urban social structure in Ch'ing China [Part Three introduction]. In The City in Late Imperial China. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1977, 521–53.
• Regional urbanization in nineteenth-century China. In The City in Late Imperial China. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1977, 211–49.
• Cities and the hierarchy of local systems. In The City in Late Imperial China. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 275–364. (Reprinted in Studies in Chinese Society, edited by Arthur P. Wolf. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1978, 1–77.)
• Vegetable supply and marketing in Chinese cities. China Quarterly 76 (Dec. 1978): 733–93.
• Introduction. In The Study of Chinese Society: Essays by Maurice Freedman. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1979, xi–xxiv.
• Vegetable supply and marketing in Chinese cities. In Vegetable Farming Systems in China, edited by Donald L. Plucknett and Halsey L. Beemer, Jr. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1981, 215–80.
• Chinese history and the social sciences. In Chinese Social and Economic History from the Song to 1900, edited by Albert Feuerwerker. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, Center for Chinese Studies, 1982, 11–6.
• Asian studies and the disciplines. Asian Studies Newsletter 19, 4 (Apr. 1984)
• Rural marketing in China: Revival and reappraisal. In Markets and Marketing: Proceedings of the 1984 Meeting of the Society for Economic Anthropology, edited by Stuart Plattner. Lanham, Md: University Press of America, 1985, 7–47.
• Presidential address: The structure of Chinese history. Journal of Asian Studies 44, 2 (Feb. 1985): 271–92.
• Rural marketing in China: Repression and revival. China Quarterly 102 (Sept. 1985): 393–413.
• Sichuan's population in the nineteenth century: Lessons from disaggregated data. Late Imperial China 8, 1 (June 1987): 1–79.
• Conjugal power in Tokugawa Japanese families: A matter of life or death. In Sex and Gender Hierarchies, edited by Barbara D. Miller. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993, 236–70.
• Differential development in Lingnan. In The Economic Transformation of South China: Reform and Development in the Post-Mao Era, edited by Thomas P. Lyons and Victor Nee. Ithaca: Cornell East Asia Program, 1994, 17–54.
• Creolized Chinese societies in Southeast Asia. In Sojourners and Settlers: Histories of Southeast Asia and the Chinese, edited by Anthony Reid. Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 1996, 50–93.
• Family systems and demographic processes. In Anthropological Demography: Toward a New Synthesis, edited by David I. Kertzer and Thomas E. Fricke. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997, 53–114.
• Introduction (and maps). In Migration and Ethnicity in Chinese History: Hakkas, Pengmin, and their Neighbors, by Sow-Theng Leong. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997, 1–18.
• Chinese cities, then and now: The difference a century makes. In Cosmopolitan Capitalists: Hong Kong and the Chinese Diaspora at the End of the Twentieth Century. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1999, 56–79.
• (Mark Hendersonnal és Yuan Jianhuaval) China’s fertility transition through regional space: Using GIS and census data for a spatial analysis of historical demography. Social Science History 24, 3 (Fall 2000): 613–43.