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, Xiaotong.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
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 had 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.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Sociocultural trends
- Domesticated animals
- Cereal agriculture
- Textile industries
- Inheritance
- Internal trade
- Service industries
- Credit
- 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.
- 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
- Frank W. Moore ; 1955
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1936
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1935-1936
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Kaixiangong (Kaihsienkung), Wujiang, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China;Lake Tai area, Jiangsu and Zhejiang, China
- NotesAdditional notes
- by Hsiao-tung Fei ; with a pref. by Bronislaw Malinowski
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Peasantry--China--Yangtze River Valley
- Villages--China--Yangtze River Valley
- Yangtze Valley--Economic conditions
- Yangtze Valley--Social life and customs