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‎The Guilds of Peking‎

‎New York, Columbia University Press (1928), reprinted by Ch'eng-wen Publishing Co., Taipei, 1976. 1 volume in-12, 249 pp., 20 pp. Appendix, green hardcover, very good condition. ‎

‎A scholarly, sociological analysis of all types of guilds in Peking during the 1920s based primarily on data obtained from a questionnaire. After tracing the origin and history of the guilds and examining three typical guilds, Burgess makes a comparative study of 42 guilds interns of their meeting places, membership, organization, meetings, finances, apprentices systems, charitable work, religious life, and major functions.‎