Book
Chinese farm economy: a study of 2866 farms in seventeen localities and seven provinces in China
University of Chicago Press • Chicago, Ill. • Published In 1930 • Pages:
By: Buck, John Lossing.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This book is the first detailed study of the Chinese land system and farm economy, using modern statistical methods. Emphasis is placed on land utilization, farm ownership and tenancy, crops, livestocks, and farm labor efficiency. Incomplete data makes the sections on family size, food consumption, and the standard of living less reliable than the rest. The survey was carried out with the help of 15 field workers, who spent entire years in the field during the period of 1921-1925. Reproductions of the questionnaires used are included in the appendices.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Nutrition
- Tillage
- Land use
- Income and demand
- Standard of living
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Han Chinese
- 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
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Social Scientist
- 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
- Samuel Chu ; 1955
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date given
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1921-1925
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- People's Republic of China
- NotesAdditional notes
- By John Lossing Buck
- Thesis (Ph.D.)--Cornell University, 1933
- Although the entire book could have been filed in category 241, efforts have been made to divide the material into various relevant categories.
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 33018656
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Agriculture--China
- Agriculture--Economic aspects