family lineage organization and social changes

Chapter
中国的家族制度自民国以来一直受政治批评的影响，被认为是广大中国人民头上的三座大山之一（帝国主义，国家资本主义）：封建主义。批评者认为，家族控制了土地，为专制的政府服务，成为封建认会压榨人民的帮凶。

家族组织：Rich
1，owned large property
2, built ancestral hall
3, compile genealogy

Week: nothing

家族组织可以血缘的，但也可以过继，同乡，或共同利益而组成。

social functions:
1) merged with the taxation and service levy (lijia) and local security systems
2) political authority, responsible for important tasks as the maintenance of local order, administration of justice, property registration, and the allocation of tax and service levy responsibility (23)
3) irrigation, transportation, marketing, commerce, and social welfare.
4) hiring teacher, promoting candidates for the examination system, conducting all kinds of religious ritual, and organizing various forms of popular culture (ancestral sacrifice, local ritual, local temple fair)

structure: complicated, hundred forms

How to approach: human relationships among family members (23)
family lineage: What does that mean? (24)

Chapter two:
How did the family limit the family expansion?--household division (31)--cycle of the family?
Approach: timing
Historical Approach:
Tang: 32
Song: 32
The timing and circumstances of household division among the populace were thus determined not by official laws and regulations but in response to the specific historical context.
Yuan-Ming transition : 33, how did Wokou affect family organization ?
early Ming: separate household registration
Argument: