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INDEX
Acculturation, order of, 19
Achievements, outstanding, given in gene-
alogical record, 232
Address, terms of, 58, diag., 60, 61
Adler, Alfred, 245
Adoption, 76
Aged, see Old age
Altar, 116
Amusement, 25
Ancestor festival, 182 -91; offering trays,
185
Ancestor of All Buddhas, 140
Ancestors, basis of socialization of young,
198 ; cult of, derives its existence from
that of family organization, 242 ; pri-
mary ancestor, 55 ; relationship with de-
scendants, 241
Ancestral line, propagation of, 107 -30
Ancestral ways, introduction to, 198 - 235
Animals, spiritual bond with man, 231 ;
cruelty to, in England and United States,
265 n
Anonymity, preference for, in competi-
tion, 262
Apparition, holy, 135
Apprentice system, 216
Arensberg, Conrad M., 66
Aristocracy, causes of weakness in, 9
Authority, 242 ; and competition, 257 -60;
submissive attitude toward, 260
Babies, see Children
Bachelor, socially lost, 253
Bad, see Good and bad
Beating, as communal punishment, 225
Bedrooms, 57
Behavior, characteristics, 262 ff.; evil, 148 ;
good, 147 ; of rising and falling families
contrasted, 7 ff.; prosperity or misery
depend on, 145
Betrothal, and wedding, 85 - 98 ; broken,
92 ; early, 88, 91 ; presents, 86 ff.; rela-
tion of girl with future husband's fam-
ily, 90
Big-family ideal, 9, 10, 109 -13, 238
Birth of infant, 199 - 202 ; cause of difficult
labor, 199 ; celebration, 200 ff.
Birth control, 109 ; father and son occupy
bachelor room, 296
Birth rates, 214 n
Bridge-crossing ceremony for spirit of the
dead, 165
Brothers, relationship between, 59
Brother-sister relationship, 59, 63
Buddha, 139, 140, 142, 183
Burial, date, hour, and location decided by
divination, 156 ; see also Dead; Funeral;
Graveyard
Burma Road, 27
Business, reward and punishment, 227
Chang, Fei, 142
Chang Huan Hou Ta Ti, 139
Characteristics, good and bad, 145 ff.
Cheng, Marquis Kuo-fan, 282, 284
Chiang, Liang-fu, 301, 305
Children, authority over, 223, 257 ; be-
trothals, 88, 91 ; birth, 199 - 202 ; care,
202 -4, 257 ; difference in training be-
tween rich and poor, 219 ; disposal of
body after two or three in family have
died, 204 ; feeding habits, 272 ; illness
attributed to evil spirits, 203 ; learn to
deal with spirits, 217 ; not entitled to
funeral, 154, 204 ; orphaned, 251 ; re-
ward and punishment, 220 -29; sexes
trained for different roles, 215, 218,
219 ; training and education, 213 -33,
239 ; weaning, 214 ; wider China's disci-
plining of, 284
Chi Lu Chen Chun, 136
China (wider), 279 -89; changes in family
behavior and in relationship between
sexes since the Republic, 287 -88; chief
way to acquire wealth, 281 n; corruption
in government, 227 ; cycles of history,
7 ; district histories, 305 ; examinations
system for bureaucratic posts abolished

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