Background
Skinner, George William was born on February 14, 1925 in Oakland, California, United States. Son of John James and Eunice (Engle) Skinner.
(Thirteen papers comprise this final volume of a three-par...)
Thirteen papers comprise this final volume of a three-part series titled Studies in Chinese Society. The papers are divided into three sections that examine Chinese cities in the context of history, spacial structure, and urban social structure. This digital edition was derived from ACLS Humanities E-Book's (http://www.humanitiesebook.org) online version of the same title.
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Skinner, George William was born on February 14, 1925 in Oakland, California, United States. Son of John James and Eunice (Engle) Skinner.
Student, Deep Springs College, California, 1943. Bachelor with distinction in Far Eastern Studies, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 1947. Doctor of Philosophy in Cultural Anthropology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 1954.
Doctor of Laws (honorary), University Hong Kong, 2001.
Field director Cornell University Southeast Asia program, also Cornell Research Center, Bangkok, 1951-1955. Research associate in Indonesia, 1956-1958. Associate professor, then professor anthropology Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 1960-1965.
Assistant professor sociology Columbia, 1958-1960. Senior specialist in residence East-West Center Honolulu, 1965-1966. Professor anthropology Stanford, 1966-1989.
Barbara Kimball Browning professor humanities and science, 1987-1989. Professor anthropology University California, Davis, since 1990. Visiting professor University Pennsylvania, 1977, Duke University, 1978, Keio University, Tokyo, 1985, 1988, University California, San Diego, 1986, Hong Kong University, 2002.
Field research China, 1949-1950, 77, Southeast Asia, 1950-1951, Thailand, 1951-1953, 54-55, Java and Borneo, 1956-1958, Japan, 1985, 88, 95. Joint committee on contemporary China Social Science Research Council-American Academy Learned Societies, 1961-1965, 80-81, international committee on Chinese studies, 1963-1964, member joint committee on Chinese studies, 1981-1983. Member subcommittee research Chinese Society Social Science Research Council, 1961-1970, chairman, 1963-1970.
Director program on East Asian Local Systems, 1969-1971. Director Chinese Society Bibliography Project, 1964-1973. Associate director Cornell China Program, 1961-1963.
Director London-Cornell Project Social Research, 1962-1965. Member committee on scholarly communication with People's Republic of China, National Academy of Sciences, 1966-1970, social science and humanities panel, 1982-1983. Advisory committee Center for Chinese Research Materials, Association Research Libraries, 1967-1970.
Board directors National Center for Geography Information and Analysis, 1989-1992. Policy and planning committee China in Time and Space, 1993-1996. Member management committee China History geographic information system or geographical information science, since 2000.
(Thirteen papers comprise this final volume of a three-par...)
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Served to ensign United States Naval Reserve, 1943-1946. Member National Academy of Sciences, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Anthropological Association, American Sociological Association, Association Asian Studies (board directors 1962-1965, chairman nominating committee 1967-1968, president 1983-1984), Society for Cultural Anthropology, International Union for Science Study of Population, Social Science History Association, American Ethnological Society, Population Association American, Siam Society, Society Qing Studies, Society Economic Anthropology, Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi.
Married Carol Bagger, March 25, 1951 (divorced January 1970). Children: Geoffrey Crane, James Lauriston, Mark Williamson, Jeremy Burr. Married Susan Mann, April 26, 1980.
1 daughter, Alison Jane.