Book
Peasant life in China: a field study of country life in the Yangtze Valley
Oxford University Press • New York • Published In 1946 • Pages:
By: Fei, Hsiao-tung.
Abstract
This is a study of the factors behind economic and social change in a small agrarian village, where a decline in the demand for silk resulted in poverty and misery. With silk no longer the principal source of cash income, peasants were forced to borrow at usurious rates, leading to a greater degree of absentee landlordism. Reforms in the silk industry have helped very little. Although only about two months were spent in the field, the author was a native of the district, so could provide considerable information on family, clan and community structure. Land tenure systems are explained and classified.
- Region
- Asia
- Sub Region
- East Asia
- Document Type
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- Frank W. Moore ; 1955
- Field Date
- 1936
- Coverage Date
- 1935-1936
- Coverage Place
- Kaixiangong (Kaihsienkung), Wujiang, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China
- Notes
- by Hsiao-tung Fei ; with a pref. by Bronislaw Malinowski
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- LCSH
- Peasantry--China--Yangtze River Valley
- Villages--China--Yangtze River Valley
- Yangtze Valley--Economic conditions
- Yangtze Valley--Social life and customs