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The new outlook of rural China: Kaishienkung revisited after half a century
Royal Anthropological Institute newsletter : RAIN • (48) • Published In 1982 • Pages: 4-8
By: Fei, Xiaotong.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
In this lecture the author reflects on past episodes of fieldwork in Kaixiangong and a more recent five-day visit there. It functions as a report on thechanges that had occurred over 45 years: including the early years of hunger and floods, the Second World War, communist liberation, collectivization, the Cultural Revolution, and the New Economic Policies. The village's economic expansion and increased standard of living is attributed to the egalitarianism that came with collectivization in 1958 and the individual responsibility system implemented under the New Economic Policy of 1978. Additionally, the author underscores the importance of rural industry as a source of income in addition to agriculture- a theme throughout the author's work. This collection contains many of Fei's earlier publications.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Domesticated animals
- Housing
- Production and supply
- Income and demand
- Ownership and control of capital
- Cooperative organization
- 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; 2019
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1981
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1936-1981
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Kaixiangong (Kaihsienkung), Wujiang, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China
- NotesAdditional notes
- Fei Hsiao-tung
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 85643233
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Villages--China--Yangtze River Valley
- Yangtze Valley--Economic conditions