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Model villages and village realities
Modern China • 9 (2) • Published In 1983 • Pages: 163-181
By: Diamond, Norma.
Abstract
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.
- Subjects
- Economic planning and development
- Cultural goals
- Marine industries
- Cereal agriculture
- Production and supply
- Cooperative organization
- Public finance
- culture
- Han Chinese
- Region
- Asia
- Sub Region
- East Asia
- Document Type
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- Ian Skoggard; 2021
- Field Date
- 1979-1980
- Coverage Date
- 1949-1982
- Coverage Place
- Taitou, Huangdao District, Qingdao Municipality, Shandong Province, People's Republic of China
- Notes
- Norma Diamond
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 181)
- LCCN
- 75642238
- LCSH
- China--Social life and customs