Myron L. Cohen papers, bulk 1964-2003
Collection context
- Creator:
- Cohen, Myron L.
- Abstract:
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The Myron L. Cohen Papers document Cohen's anthropological research in Taiwan and China from 1964 to 2003. Centered on his doctoral fieldwork in Meinong, a Hakka community in southern Taiwan, the collection contains account books, household and land records, local publications, and extensive research notes. Later materials reflect Cohen's broader inquiries into kinship and family in Chinese-speaking communities, including Hebei and Shanghai. The papers also preserve his academic correspondence and drafts of writings from the 1990s to early 2000s.
孔邁隆檔案(Myron L. Cohen Papers)記錄了孔邁隆自1964年至2003年間於臺灣與中國進行的人類學研究。檔案重點為其在南臺灣客家聚落美濃進行之博士田野調查,內容涵蓋會嘗算簿、戶籍及土地登記文書、地方刊物,以及研究筆記。後期資料則展現其對華語社群親屬關係與家庭研究之延伸,包括在河北及上海的田野工作。另亦保存1990年代至2000年代初之學術往來書信與著述草稿。
- Extent:
- 35 linear feet (64 manuscript boxes, 4 half manuscript boxes, 1 flat box, 3 audio/visual boxes)
- Language:
- English, Chinese
- Scope and content:
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The Myron L. Cohen Papers document Cohen's decades of anthropological research in Taiwan and China, with the bulk of the materials dating from 1964 to 2003. The collection is especially rich in sources from Meinong, a Hakka region in southern Taiwan and the site of Cohen's doctoral fieldwork. Materials include account books from ancestral associations, household registration records from both the Japanese colonial and Republican periods, land deeds, locally published newspapers and journals, as well as Cohen's field notes and analytical writings. Most items appear in duplicate form, either on paper or microfilm, though a number of original documents are also preserved. By the later decades of the twentieth century, Cohen had expanded his research on kinship and the conceptual construction of family to additional Chinese-speaking communities, including Yangmansa village in Hebei Province and the town of Huacao in the Shanghai region. The final series of the collection comprises his academic correspondence and drafts of articles and lectures produced between the 1990s and early 2000s.
孔邁隆檔案記錄了孔教授在臺灣與中國進行的數十年人類學研究,檔案主要涵蓋年代為1964年至2003年。材料重點為其博士田野地點——南臺灣客家聚落美濃,內容包括宗族會帳簿、日治及民國時期戶籍簿、土地契約、地方報刊,以及田野筆記與分析稿件。多數資料保存為紙本或縮微膠片之複本,另亦有原件。至二十世紀後期,孔教授將研究擴展至華語社群之親屬關係與家庭觀念,包括河北楊漫撒村與上海華漕鎮。檔案最末部分則為1990年代至2000年代初之學術書信及論文、講稿草稿。
- Biographical / historical:
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Myron L. Cohen's research has focused on Han Chinese culture and society during late imperial and modern times. His fieldwork in Taiwan and in villages in northern, eastern, and western mainland China has been concerned with uncovering commonalities and variation among widely separated Hakka and Han Chinese communities, especially with respect to family and community arrangements. Professor Cohen is the author of House United, House Divided: The Chinese Family in Taiwan (1976). He edited Asia Case Studies in the Social Sciences: A Guide for Teaching (1992) and contributed numerous chapters to edited volumes and journals, including more recent publications like "Ethnicity and the Degree-Holding Elite in Qing-Era Taiwan: The 1803 Restoration of the Prefectural Confucian Temple" in Family, Ethnicity, and State in Chinese Culture Under the Impact of Globalization (2017), edited by Han Min, Kawai Hironao, and Wong Heung Wah; and "High Ancestors among the Hakka Chinese: Past and Present, Rural, Urban, and Global," for Global Hakka Studies (2017). Professor Cohen was the seventh director of the East Asian Institute (renamed the Weatherhead East Asian Institute in 2003) and served for two terms, from 1975 to 1976 and from 2006 to 2014. As Director, he led the Institute through several major milestones, including events commemorating its sixtieth anniversary in Beijing, Tokyo, and Seoul.
孔邁隆教授的研究聚焦於东亚文化與社會,時間範疇涵蓋明清時期至現代。他在臺灣及中國大陸村落的田野調查聚焦于家庭與社群組織。孔教授著有《家的合與分 — 臺灣的漢人家庭制度》(House United, House Divided: The Chinese Family in Taiwan, 1976)。此外,他主編《亞洲問題的社會科學研究:教學指南》(Asia Case Studies in the Social Sciences: A Guide for Teaching, 1992),並於多部編著論文集及學術期刊發表文章。近年出版作品包括〈族群與清代臺灣士紳:1803年府城文廟重修〉(刊於《全球化衝擊下的中國文化:家庭、族群與國家》,2017,Han Min, Kawai Hironao, and Wong Heung Wah主編),以及〈客家人的高祖:過去與現在、鄉村、城市與全球〉(刊於《全球客家研究》,2017)。孔教授曾兩度擔任哥倫比亞大學東亞研究所所長,任期分別為1975年至1976年與2006年至2014年。在任內,他引領研究所完成多項重要里程碑,包括於北京、東京與首爾舉辦六十週年紀念活動。
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