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Model villages and village realities
Modern China • 9 (2) • Published In 1983 • Pages: 163-181
By: Diamond, Norma.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a comparison of two villages: one a model village and the other, Taitou, a village that has lagged developmentally. Taitou is disadvantaged in parts to its ‘shadowy’ past as a Western missionary village, a remote location from its prefectural capital and urban markets, and poor soil conditions. State economic planning further handicapped the village from pursuing a developmental path that more suited its particular conditions. Only when Taitou was incorporated into the geographically closer Qingdao municipality and sideline enterprises were encouraged did its fortunes change. The author astutely notes that model villages serve more of an ideological purpose as they receive more state attention and financial inputs not available to other villages and therefore are not truly replicable.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Economic planning and development
- Cultural goals
- Marine industries
- Cereal agriculture
- Production and supply
- Cooperative organization
- Public finance
- 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
- article
- 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
- 1979-1980
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1949-1982
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Taitou, Huangdao District, Qingdao Municipality, Shandong Province, People's Republic of China
- NotesAdditional notes
- Norma Diamond
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 181)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 75642238
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- China--Social life and customs