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  • Survey of Social Demographic Data in Chinese Genealogies*
  • Ted A. Telford (bio)
Ted A. Telford

Ted A. Telford is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah.

Glossary

fang
fanli
jiapu
jiefu
nianbiao
nianpu
qiyi
qiyue
shan
shang
shiji
shijuan
shiqian zu
shitu
shixi biao
shixi tu
tian
xiaojuan
xinding ce
xitu
zaozu
zong
zongci
zongzhi pu
zupu

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Footnotes

* This survey has been supported in part by the Joint Committee on Chinese Studies of the ACLS and SSRC, in preparation for a conference on Chinese Genealogical Demography, Asilomar, January 8-11, 1986. I would like to thank Stevan Harrell and James Lee for comments and encouragement in the course of completing this survey. Special acknowledgement is in order for G. William Skinner for helpful comments and for detailed information on his macroregional systems which made possible the inclusion of several tables giving breakdowns for macroregions for core/periphery status.

1. Maurice Freedman and others have made distinctions between clans and lineages on the basis of the nature of claims to common ancestry, celebration of ritual unity, group ability to take collective action on certain occasions, and ownership of some corporate property. (Freedman, 1966:20-22, also Watson, 1982:589-622). It is not clear in many cases whether the families, patrilines or branches that produced the type of handwritten record I have called a "branch genealogy" had any corporate property or not (some probably did and others not). Terminology used in the titles of various types of genealogies is not uniform and rarely gives an accurate indication whether it is a branch, lineage or clan genealogy. The titles of all three types can employ any one of the three terms without regard to geographic coverage or generational depth. Related branches (sublineages, patrilines, or localized lineages, or higher-order lineages amalgamating themselves into "clans" evidently did so through the same general process: first, by identifying a suitable progenitor and then patching together the various branches and/or lineages to form a more widely dispersed common descent group. The genealogies produced by these amalgamations could use any one of these three terms to describe the new group in the title of the genealogy. The heavily edited clan genealogy, Ouyang liuzong tongpu, 1934, used the term zong. However, many recently published Taiwan genealogies using jia or zu...

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