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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.
Abstract
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.
- Subjects
- Domesticated animals
- Housing
- Production and supply
- Income and demand
- Ownership and control of capital
- Cooperative organization
- 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; 2019
- Field Date
- 1981
- Coverage Date
- 1936-1981
- Coverage Place
- Kaixiangong (Kaihsienkung), Wujiang, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China
- Notes
- Fei Hsiao-tung
- LCCN
- 85643233
- LCSH
- Villages--China--Yangtze River Valley
- Yangtze Valley--Economic conditions