The Clan Study Of Chinese Historian In The Twentieth Century (1920's--1940's)

The lineage is the base of the structure of the traditional society. With the sociology and anthropology brought in, the study of the clan of the time was bron. The study of the clan was marginal in comparison with the other subjects because of the objective conditions from 1920's to 1940's,but it must be admitted that the clan study has achieved great success.The neoteric historian focused their attentions on the lineage beainning with lusi -mian,the book of <>was the first works about the lineage, lu si-mian was the first one who studied thoroughly on the clan institution of China.he breached through the predecessor's visual angle and put the clan institution into the backdrop of the whole society, he held it macroscopically. lu si-mian almost collected all of lu si-mian almost collected all of the clan data of the official history, plotting out the clan's developed outline approximately in history, which affect deeply the study of clan in the twentieth Century. Tao xi-sheng studied thorough the clan institution of China on the whole. He analyzed the development of clan into four parts from the origin to the decline clearly.On the materialism opinion of Marxism,Tao xi-sheng thought that the clan development was in step with the production relation.he analyzed the evolution of production relation and its ties with the clan and the marriage.Tao xi-sheng put the clan into the backdrop of the whole society in order to find out the rule of the society. The text want to cover further the clan study of Chinese historian in the twentieth century resorting to the lineage study of lu si -mian and tao xi-sheng.