essay
Political factionalism and its impact on Chinese village social organization in Taiwan
Local-level politics : social and cultural perspectives • Chicago, Ill. • Published In 1986 • Pages: 377-400
By: Gallin, Bernard.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The effect of the proliferation of political factions in the village of Hsin Hsing is the subject of this article. Gallin found that traditional organizations, specifically the village and the lineage (TSU), and traditional social behavior and relationships have been rather profoundly altered as a result of the presence of political factions.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Sociocultural trends
- Community structure
- Territorial hierarchy
- Towns
- Districts
- Political parties
- Elections
- 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
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- 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.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Marlene Martin; David Sherwood
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1957-1966
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- not specified
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Hsin Hsing village, Taichung hsien, Taiwan (p. 378)
- NotesAdditional notes
- Bernard Gallin
- Includes bibliography
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Taiwanese