Portland State University PDXScholar Anthropology Faculty Publications and Presentations Anthropology 1-1994 Review of "Creating Chinese Ethnicity: Subei People in Shanghai 1850-1980" by Emily Honig Sharon A. Carstens Portland State University,
[email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/anth_fac Part of the Chinese Studies Commons Let us know how access to this document benefits ou.y Citation Details Carstens, Sharon A. Review of "Creating Chinese Ethnicity: Subei People in Shanghai 1850-1980" by Emily Honig. The Australian Journal of Chinese Affairs, No. 31 (Jan., 1994), pp. 133-135. This Book Review is brought to you for free and open access. It has been accepted for inclusion in Anthropology Faculty Publications and Presentations by an authorized administrator of PDXScholar. Please contact us if we can make this document more accessible:
[email protected]. REVIEWS 133 year interregnumin the prestige of the top officialdom; a disjointed, still somewhat hostile but mildly improving view of private entrepreneurs;and surprisingly,a rise of professorsand high-schoolteachers (as the exemplarsof 'gentility')to the very top of the prestigeratings. To get at sexual interest,he went so far as to survey the stalls in three universitymens-rooms and ten neighbourhoodouthouses, and is able to confide, for whateverit's worth, that drawingsof male andfemale genitalia abounded in the former,but thatimages of femalebreasts were non-existent. This seat-of-the-pantscreativity in datagathering is considerablyoffset by an obvious dearth of trainingin survey techniqueswhen it comes to more standardsurvey topics. No demonstrableefforts were made to obtainunbiased survey samples; sample sizes in some cases were far too small to provide significantresults; and his end-useof the datais rudimentary,with few attempts at even simplecorrelations.