| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 109.2

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Michael Szonyi. Practicing Kinship: Lineage and Descent in Late Imperial China. Stanford: Stanford University Press. 2002. Pp. xii, 313. $49.50.

This compact, focused study effectively integrates and illustrates several important lines of development in recent scholarship on early modern China. One is an appreciation of the influence of Kangxi-period state promotion of lineage awareness and ritual as an aspect of dynastic legitimation. Benjamin A. Elman and Kai-wing Chow have explored the textual and policy origins of this program. Here, Michael Szonyi applies our previous knowledge of these institutions to his study of lineage awareness in the Fuzhou region (that is, Minxian and Houguan counties in Fujian province) from the Song period to end of the Qing, with many intriguing reflections on the continuing influence of these institutions in the twentieth-century life of the region. This treatment of paternal lineage affiliation as an institution is integrated with another line of research—associated most with Helen F. Siu, David Faure, Liu Zhiwei, and Winghoi Chan—that examines the ambiguous lines of "ethnic" identity and regional differentiation among the Dan and She groups, in particular.

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