G. William Skinner

G. William Skinner (1925-2008) was the dean of sinological anthropology in the West, a major theorist of family systems, and a pioneer in applying spatial analysis techniques to the study of agrarian societies. He was the author of Marketing and Social Structure in Rural China (Association for Asian Studies, 1965) and Chinese Society in Thailand: An Analytical History (Cornell University Press, 1957); and the coeditor of The City in Late Imperial China (Stanford University Press, 1977) and The Chinese City between Two Worlds (Stanford University Press, 1974).