Book
A Chinese village: Taitou, Shangtung Province
Columbia University Press • New York • Published In 1945 • Pages:
By: Yang, Maochun.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The author's lifetime familiarity with the village gives this community study exceptional worth. The village is first placed in the surrounding ecological and technological environment. Agriculture is thoroughly analyzed. This is followed by an extensive treatment of the family that encompasses a major section of the book. A breakdown is given concerning the role of the family in economic, ceremonial and community pursuits in general. The last third of the book gives insight into village organization in all its aspects. A chapter is devoted to the biography of one of the boys of the village. Emphasis is placed on his activities at play, work, and, especially, in school. The author concludes with summary paragraphs of previous material along with his conception of socio-cultural trends in the village and in relation to China in general.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Life history materials
- Rest days and holidays
- Downward mobility
- Extended families
- 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
- Robert E. Winter ; 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
- 1924-1943
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Taitoucun, Xihai'an County, Qingdao Municipality, Shandong Province, People's Republic of China
- NotesAdditional notes
- By Martin C. Yang
- "The study was made possible by the kind sponsorship of the Department of Anthropology of Columbia University ... Professor Ralph Linton ... chairman."--Pref.
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- a 45004581
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Sociology, Rural
- Taitou Cun (Shandong Sheng, China) China--Social life and customs