essay
Rural to urban migration in Taiwan: its impact on Chinese family and kinship
Chinese family law and social change • Seattle • Published In 1978 • Pages: 261-282
By: Gallin, Bernard.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This essay contains a description of the adaptation and modification of conventional cultural institutions by migrants from Hsin Hsing village to Taipei. Gallin compares urban and rural differences in economic and prestige competition, residence patterns, the location of childbirth, income and standard of living, ancestor worship, and the choice of medical practitioners. Gallin concludes that in the urban setting, people adapt and modify their rural institutions rather than rejecting or replacing them.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Internal migration
- Housing
- Urban and rural life
- Income and demand
- Standard of living
- Residence
- Cult of the dead
- Childbirth
- 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
- 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 and Taipei city, Taiwan (p. 262)
- NotesAdditional notes
- Bernard Gallin
- For the bibliography to this source, see 56: Buxbaum, this file, Category 113, pp. 502-527
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 76007781
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Taiwanese