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The Han Chinese represent the largest and oldest continuous civilization in the world, originally centered on the Yellow River basin in North China where the dependence on cereal agriculture was established, supplemented by vegetables, domestic animals, and fishing. The Han make up most of the population of China proper, as well as on the islands of Taiwan and Singapore. Traditionally, China was an agrarian state with multiple administrative levels down to the village level, where corporate patrilineages ruled. In modern times, with new marriage laws and land reform, power has devolved to women and individual farming households. Religion was a combination of local beliefs and practices from Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism; more recently also Christianity and Communist ideology.

Erasing the dead in Kaixiangong

Women, kitchen and belonging in eastern China

'Fat pigs' and women's gifts

Reciprocity (lishang-wanglai)

Peasant life in China

A revisit to Kaihsienkung

The new outlook of rural China

Peasant life in communist China

Household and family in Kaixiangong

Rural enterprises and urbanization

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Author	Title	Publication Date
Aijmer, Göran	Erasing the dead in Kaixiangong	2015
Aijmer, Göran	Women, kitchen and belonging in eastern China	2005
Chang, Xiangqun	'Fat pigs' and women's gifts	1999
Chang, Xiangqun	Reciprocity (lishang-wanglai)	2016
Fei, Hsiao-tung	Peasant life in China	1946
Fei, Xiaotong	A revisit to Kaihsienkung	1979
Fei, Xiaotong	The new outlook of rural China	1982
Geddes, W. R. (William Robert)	Peasant life in communist China	1963
González, Nancie L. Solien	Household and family in Kaixiangong	1983
Guanbao, Shen	Rural enterprises and urbanization	1990

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