Book
Hsin Hsing, Taiwan: a Chinese village in change
University of California Press • Berkeley • Published In 1966 • Pages:
By: Gallin, Bernard.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a study of socio-cultural change in a Taiwan peasant village, from the turn of the century to 1959. When population increased after World War II, land shortage became a severe problem. This problem resulted in temporary as well as permanent migration to the city (usually Taipeh). This, together with other factors, weakened village and clan (TZU) solidarity. Instead of the concentration of social relationships in the village and clan communities, a strong tendency to establish ties with social groups outside the community in other villages developed. At the same time individualism was increasing. All of these factors resulted in the dissolution of the extended family as a household and even economic unit, into more or less independent conjugal families. The research was conducted by the author and his wife in the local dialect, Mandarin, and Japanese.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Sociocultural trends
- Community structure
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Taiwan Hokkien
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1995
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Asia
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- East Asia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Sigrid Khera
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1957-1958 (16 months)
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- ca. 1900-1959
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Hsin Hsing village, Taiwan
- NotesAdditional notes
- Bernard Gallin
- Includes bibliography
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 66014734
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Taiwanese