Book
Village life in China
Little, Brown • Boston • Published In 1970 • Pages: xxvi, 278
By: Smith, Arthur H., Cohen, Myron L..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
An American missionary's account of Chinese village life at the end of 19th century. The author lived in a small village in Shandong province and bases his accounts on his own observations, conversations, and what he read in gazetteers and newspapers. Topics covered include village headmen, bullies, magistrates, scholar/teachers, and the feasting that occurs on all occasions. While not free of Western biases, altercations that occur in rural life and how they are mediated with minimal state intervention are documented.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Writing
- Insurance
- Verbal arts
- Musical and theatrical productions
- Visiting and hospitality
- Ingroup antagonisms
- Informal in-group justice
- Property offenses
- Burial practices and funerals
- Education
- 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.
- Missionary
- 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.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Ian Skoggard; 2021
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1875-1900
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1875-1900
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Pangjiazhuang, Shandong, China
- NotesAdditional notes
- Arthur H. Smith ; With an introd. by Myron L. Cohen
- "Originally published, without the introduction ... in 1899."
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 75106495
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- China--Social life and customs