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Olga Joffe Lang (11 December 1897 Russia -1992) was a Russian-born American sociologist and teacher. [1] She is best known for her studies of the Chinese family and her biography of the Chinese anarchist writer, Ba Jin.
from to she was married to the scholar, Karl August Wittfogel.
Career
[edit]In China she conducted research, especially on the Chinese family, and wrote on Chinese affairs.
In 1939, for instance, she wrote favorably on the Chinese army,[2]
Scholarly contributions
[edit]As the sub-title suggests, Miss Lang is mainly interested in social history. 'It is gradually becoming an accepted point of view that creative literature, especially realistic novels, short stories, and plays, provides an excellent approach to social history', she writes. Speaking of the creative writer, she adds: 'No other source can provide a better description of the average man as well as the leading figures of a given society, of their attitude toward its political and social system and moral code, of their way of life and their ideals' (p. 1).[3]
References
[edit]- Revered Chinese Novelist Ba Jin, 100, The Washington Post 17 October, 2009.
- Redfield, Margaret Park (1947). "Chinese Family and Society. Olga Lang". American Journal of Sociology. 52 (5): 464–466. doi:10.1086/220061.
- Messmer, Matthias (2012). Jewish Wayfarers in Modern China: Tragedy and Splendor. Lexington Books. ISBN 9780739169384.
- Garz, Detlef. (2007). Olga Lang-Wittfogel - eine objektiv-hermeneutische Biographieanalyse. Zeitschrift für Qualitative Forschung, 8(2), 207-224. https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-269934
- Tse, N. Q. (1947). "(Review) Chinese Family and Society". Social Forces. 25 (3): 355. doi:10.1093/sf/25.3.355.
Notes
[edit]- ^ Olga Lang Papers, TriCollege Libraries, 2019
- ^ Lang, Olga. “The Good Iron of the New Chinese Army.” Pacific Affairs 12, no. 1 (1939): 20–33. https://doi.org/10.2307/2751090.
- ^ Fokkema, D. W., (Review), T’oung Pao 56, no. 4/5 (1970): 305. http://www.jstor.org/stable/4527825 .
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