The Intermediate Circle

Abstract

English translation © 2011 M.E. Sharpe, Inc., from the Chinese original: Wang Mingming, “‘Zhongjianquan’–minzu de renleixue yanjiu yu wenmingshi,” in Zhongguo renleixue pinglun (Chinese Review of Anthropology), vol. 3, pp. 39–65 (Beijing: Shejie tushu chuban gongsi, 2007). Translated by Ted Wang. Wang Mingming is a professor of anthropology at Peking University and has written extensively on the anthropology of China and civilization. His recent works include The West as the other (2007) and Biography and Anthropology (2010); e-mail: wangmm2006@gmail.com. Chinese Sociology and Anthropology, vol. 42, no. 4, Summer 2010, pp. 62–77. © 2011 M.E. Sharpe, Inc. All rights reserved. ISSN 0009–4625/2011 $9.50 + 0.00. DOI 10.2753/CSA0009-4625420404