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• (Kracke and Ho's) mobility thesis and its accompanying model of Chinese society has come under challenge in recent years... First...it confuses status group with class... Second...ignores ssuch critical factors as lineage,marriage relationships, and even siblings and uncles... (查看原文)

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• marriage, not examinations, was the critical criterion for entrance into a socially-defined elite...however... First...it does not rove that examinations were unimportant... Moreover...examination was (not) the completely dependent variable...even as marriage could aid one in the examinations, so could examination success be of benefit for social climbing through marriage. Second, there is an inherent imprecision in speaking of "elite lineages," for Chinese lineage could be extremely heterogeneous bodies, as their common charity provisions for poor members bear witness.To belong to an elite lineage did not mean that one was elite, although the connection undoubtedly conferred many benefits upon the poor member unavailable to his unconnected neighbors. Thus under the umbrella of the lineage... (查看原文)

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