Author: Meskill, Johanna Menzel
Title: A Chinese Pioneer Family : The Lins of Wu-feng, Taiwan 1729-1895
Description: Princeton, Princeton University Press, (1979). orig.cloth. 22x14cm, xi,(5), 375 pp, Includes textual maps,plans & drawings + frontispiece & 4pp photoplates.. Frontispiece,4 photoplates. Minor rubbing, slight dustwrapper tear, VG. dustwrapper ¶ Contents: Pioneers on a Chinese Frontier; The Lins & the Crisis of the Chinese State; The Making of a Taiwanese Gentry Family.

Keywords: Taiwanese Gentry, Taiwan, Late Imperial China, Lin family, Genealogy, Local history, Chinese settlement, Social history, Chang-Hua district