Book
A Chinese village in early communist transition
The M.I.T. Press • Cambridge, Mass. • Published In 1959 • Pages:
By: Yang, C. K..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is an ethnography of the changes brought by the Communist revolution in a southern Chinese suburban community. Specific themes examined include land tenure and land reform, collectivization, changes in the kinship system and political leadership, and household and village production and consumption.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Tillage
- Real property
- Exchange and transfers
- Classes
- Household
- Lineages
- Community structure
- 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.
- 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
- 1948-1951
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1900-1958
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Nanjing Village, Panyu District, Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province, People's Republic of China; People's Republic of China
- NotesAdditional notes
- C. K. Yang
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 59011517
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Villages--China--Case studies
- Agriculture, Cooperative--China--Case studies
- China--Rural conditions--Case studies
- Nanjing (Guangdong Sheng, China)